A New Lens - Beating About The Bush
In January 2023, Penelope Bartlau and Jason Lehane through Barking Spider Creative, had a week-long residency at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. Artists collaborated to create an installation in response to exhibition Beating About The Bush. They explored themes of the lost child, surrealism and degradation of nature, while examining notions of the photographer's gaze and intent across time.
The Beating About The Bush exhibition brought Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings together with female photographers who re-examined the Australian Impressionists and brought a new lens to the Australian landscape.
Audience feedback
“Looks like the studio of a deranged bunyip photographer”
“The nest of a bowerbird that collects body parts”
“Julia deVille with more bodies and less fur”
Photos: Jason Lehane & Tara Moore
Video: Shot by Jason Lehane & edited by Penelope Bartlau CLICK HERE
A New lens - Beating About The Bush was a Barking Spider Creative production.
This work took place on the lands of the Wadawurrung people, the traditional custodians of this land. We acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. The sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has never been ceded.
