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September 4, 2009
Gallery 139 is an Adelaide based gallery that sometimes shows the work of Adelaide based photographic artists. An example is the Of no particular order exhibition by local photographer Rossanne Pellegrino in March 2008. This mixed media work incorporated photo transfer techniques, hand painted imagery and Polaroid manipulation to create painterly imagery that blurs the traditional borders between painting and photography. She says:
I take photos and then manipulate them by painting them, then taking more photos of that image, melding images together and then applying chemicals to them and then press printing that image onto paper
Rossanne Pellegrino, Est. 1907, c-type print, slide film, photo transfer, giclee print,
These urban scenescapes evoke moments from the artists' history from the perspective of memory. We enter into a dream world where images of reality are melded together and obscured by heightened personal memory.
Pellegrino left Adelaide because she felt Ishe was doing the same type of work same people coming to my shows. Whilst in London she established the London based We are all artists as one way in which emerging artists could showcase their artwork within their own communities as well as in international circles.
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So Adelaide does not have enough creative weight re the creative industries to sustain artists. That's true. But it could be fostered.
Melbourne probably now has a big enough inner city creative centre to support artistic experimentation and innovation now that Pellegrino needed to sustain her work.