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September 7, 2011
Sally McInerney is the daughter of Olive Cotton. The latter worked from studios in central Sydney, was briefly married to Max Dupain, but in 1946 she moved to Cowra in NSW and immersed herself in motherhood, farming, rural life and ran a rural photographic studio.
I know little of Sally McInerney's work and there is little on the internet. There was an exhibition this year in Sydney entitled "Uncivilised Scenes: 40 Photographs", but none of the images are online. Presumably some of these were from The Lost Track of Time project, which consists of images taken over the last six years on McInerney's various roundabout car trips between city and country homelands:
Sally McInerney, AWY 087
It's the poetics of decay.
It is a close-up of an everyday object in terminal decay - a discarded car steadily oxidising into a relic of primitive automotive technology.
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Dear Gary, I am not all that difficult to find...My show 'Uncivilised Scenes' (not just about poetics of decay) was on for twelve days in August only, but will probably reappear somewhere in Sydney next year. Thanks for remarking on it.
I like your own scenes on Flickr, esp. the ragged curtain, etc - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sauer-thompson/3948312831/
- beautiful!
regards,
sally mcInerney
PS AWY 087 (not OWY) is/was the family car, now leading its own life on the deserted family "farm".