MAPh | Wesley Stacey: The wild thing

EXHIBITION

Wesley Stacey: The wild thing

4 March – 28 April 2017

Burning forest remnant on the Monaro 1981
chromogenic print
35.5 x 55.0 cm
Museum of Australian Photography, City of Monash Collection
acquired 1983
MAPh 1983.47
courtesy of the artist

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Wesley Stacey: Large Print

Wes Stacey: Media release

Wesley Stacey is a living legend of environmental photography. In the 1970s he turned his back on the bright lights of Sydney and set up camp in the wilderness of the NSW south coast. For over 40 years he has lived in the ‘great outdoors’, using photography to explore and connect with the ecological complexity of the Australian landscape. The wild thing, curated from the MGA’s own photography collection, surveys four decades of Stacey’s work. From his lively colour snapshots to his epic black-and-white panoramas, Stacey pays tribute to the wildness at the heart of our existence on Earth.

Part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017- a festival of exhibitions and events harnessing the creative power of the Arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change. www.artclimatechange.org

Artist talk and Exhibition launch

Saturday 4 March: 1pm Artist talk; 2pm exhibition launch

For more details and to RSVP please visit our booking site

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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