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April 7, 2011
Landscape Art Research Queensland (LARQ) in Queenstown hosts a program of exhibitions, residencies and print workshops that explore art and its relationship to the geomorphologies and human dwelling on the Mt Read volcanic belt.
One of the exhibitions this year was by Osmosis a group of Tasmanian female artists. One of the group is Fiona Fraser, a Hobart based photographer and printmaker who works as an arts administratior roles and currently as Visual Arts Coordinator at the Salamanca Arts Centre:
Fiona Fraser, Cutting, Queenstown, 2010
Her emphasis was on the steep, narrow and winding road into and out of Queenstown. There are only a few places to stop the car and look at either the landscape, or the relationship between the road and the cliff the road has been cut into.
If you want to take photographs you need to park the car and walk it. Basically you are working on the road ---a view camera and dark cloth is not practical---and to keep moving out of the way of the cars travelling up and down the road. Thankfully, the road is so windy that the cars go slow and so you can move body and camera and trip out of the way.
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