Exhibition: As the World Turns...
Love the round prints! Photographs by Janet Tavener in the As The World Turns exhibition.
As the World Turns…
Dates: 15th November to 3rd December 2023
Location: Incinerator Art Space, 2 Small Street, Willoughby, 2068, Australia
Artist: Janet Tavener
Len and I are fortunate that this exhibition is just round the corner from his studio in Willoughby, so we popped over to have a look.
To see Janet’s work (and Janet herself!) in person is delightful. She artfully conveys the immense scale and fragility of the icebergs encountered on her travels in Greenland. We were drawn in by the detailed texture and ominous cracks appearing. Hung with hauntingly beautiful submerged plastic flowers, also richly detailed and mesmerising to look at, this show is a statement about the plight of our environment.
As Janet notes, “the work shows the flaws in nature's current survival strategy—the flight of many natural elements from their usual environments, now too hot and inhospitable to sustain them, for the cooler climes of the North and South Poles—against the current and grim reality of melting glacial ice”.
Photographs copyright © Janet Tavener, Submerged III, 2023, digital print on Baryta Prestige
Some of you may remember Janet as her work appeared in Len’s Journal Volume 2 Issue 1 early last year. These images are every bit as lovely and are well worth the visit to the gallery if you are in Sydney during the exhibition. There is also a lovely cafe upstairs!
Janet will be exhibiting ‘As the world turns…’ in the Incinerator Art Space, 2 Small Street, Willoughby, 2068: https://www.visitchatswood.com.au/Events/As-the-world-turns
Do visit Janet’s website to see more of her work: https://www.janettavener.com
Wonderful to bump into friends at the gallery!
Photographs copyright © Janet Tavener 2023
