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June 16, 2007
I'm spending the weekend in Canberra. It's wintry and cold despite the sunshine. I'm lonely, and tired of sitting at the computer living a virtual life hugged to a heater. To head off the feeling of depression taking hold I decided to put on my coat, get out of the apartment, and walk around Kingston with my camera as a nomad. After all I have an arial but no roots in Canberra.
Nearby the apartment, close to the Lake was Canberra's old Kingston Powerhouse. It has been remodelled by Tanner Architect into the Canberra Glassworks. This building is Australia's only cultural centre wholly dedicated to contemporary glass art; a working glassworks that provides access to glassmaking facilities for glass artists.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Hotshop, Canberra Glassworks, 2007
The exhibition was by Richard Whiteley, the current Head of Glass at the ANU School of Art.
Whilst on my way to the Kingston shops, where people often gather after a day in Parliament working on dirty tricks, this colour in the winter shade caught my tourist eye:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, shrubs, Kingston, 2007
I hung around the back alley of the shops as a contrast to the cultured middle class world at the Canberra Glassworks. I was looking for signs of graffiti and urban decay, but I found little, as Canberra is too new. No doubt it would have an a underground or alternate culture that comes out of the Art School or the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. A raunch culture perhaps?
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Backlane Kingston Shops, 2007
I no longer felt lonely or so isolated. Nor hemmed in by winter being battered by the 24 hours news TV. I was quite happy to return to the apartment when the lovely soft light went, the cold came in, and the darkness descended. It was back to the computer, the heater and to look at the online work of Martin Jolley and Helen Ennis at the photomedia studio in the ANU School of Art and the exhibitions at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
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Your photos are always very good but lately the date thing somewhat denigrates the picture