BARBARA MADDEN
My landscape - based exhibition photographic works often focus on environmental threats. ‘MIX Unplugged’ provided me with an opportunity to revisit a theme first explored in ‘refugium’ in 2021 with a work printed on silk, expressing the impact on vulnerable woodlands of increasingly frequent and devastating bushfires in a warming, drying climate. This time I converted the original images to B&W and experimented with different Photoshop filters to achieve the effect I wanted, of a sparse, stark and sad-looking landscape immediately after severe burns in the Stirling Ranges and the Great Western Woodlands. I enjoyed printing the images on my home printer on a range of Hahnemuhle fine art photo papers. Stripped Dye inkjet print on Hahnemuhle cotton rag 42 x 29.7 cm framed Printed November 2023 Scorched Dye inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo 42 x 29.7 cm framed Printed November 2023 Sentinel Dye inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Argave 42 x 29.7 cm framed Printed November 2023 Below: Gallery View |