MAPh | Dombrovskis: journeys into the wild

EXHIBITION

Dombrovskis: journeys into the wild

9 March – 12 May 2019

Peter DOMBROVSKIS
Morning light on Little Horn, Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park, Tasmania 1995
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courtesy National Library of Australia

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DOMBROVSKIS Media release

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DOMBROVSKIS Opening address by Dr Les Walkling

'When you go out there, you don't get away from it all. You get back to it all. You come home to what's important. You come home to yourself.' – Peter Dombrovskis

Peter Dombrovskis (1945–96) was one of the world's foremost wilderness photographers. His powerful, reflective and deeply personal images of the unique Tasmanian wilderness had a lasting impact. His images changed the way Australians think about their environment by making remote nature accessible through images.

Through their use in environmental campaigns such as the ‘No Dams’ movement of 1982, some of Dombrovskis’s images have become shorthand for environmental concerns in Australia. Seldom in the history of photography has there been as clear an example of visual culture bearing such political sway.

Presenting a vast sweep of the artist’s images, Dombrovskis: journeys into the wild was initially developed by the National Library of Australia from their comprehensive collection of Dombrovskis’s work.

MGA presents this exhibition as part of the CLIMARTE Festival: ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019

Exhibition supporters:

Peter Dombrovskis

Cushion plants, Mount Anne, Southwest National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Drying kelp at Sandy Bay, Macquarie Island, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Granite beach, Southwest National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Morning light on Little Horn, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Pandani in snow with Lots Wife beyond, Southwest National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Pencil pine at Pool of Siloam, Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Richea scoparia in bloom at Barn Bluff, Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

Peter Dombrovskis

Shore lichen on granite, east Freycinet, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania

IN COLLECTION

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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