This week on Friday Round Up the 70's show at Magnet Galleries is prolonged by means of famous demand, Robyn Beeche Retrospective for Black Eye Gallery and Peter Elliston at Colour Factory.
Sneak Peek:
Albatross Island
Matthew Newton
Next week read the interview with Matthew Newton and spot more of his super photos of this little acknowledged Bass Strait island off the coast of Tasmania.
Exhibitions:
Living in the 70's
Melbourne - Magnet Galleries
Shirley Strachan Skyhooks ? John Casamento
This institution show functions an eclectic selection of photographs of Melbourne for the duration of the Nineteen Seventies. Michael Silver, the co-founder of Magnet, reviews that crowds have been flowing via. "It's just like the NGV," he says. The show has been so popular that it's been prolonged until twentieth February.
Black land rights demonstration Bourke Street 1978 ? Colin Abbott
Muhmmad Ali and Bert Newton on the Logies 1979 ? Bruce Postle
Doc Neeson, The Angels ? Mark Hopper
Red Rattler Jolimont Station ? Bob Wilson
St Kilda Fair 1973 ? Glen O'Malley
Bob Hawke fields for Gough Whitlam Richmond 1977
In Conversation at Magnet
On Thursday 18th February Magnet is hosting an In Conversation with legendary Australian architecture photographer John Gollings, pictured below, and Dr. Rory Hyde curator of contemporary Architecture and urbanism at the V&A in London. Gollings was made a Member of the Order of Australia in this year's Australia Day honours. Check out the website for details.
Magnet Galleries Melbourne
Level 2
640 Bourke Street
Melbourne
Sydney:
Robyn Beeche Retrospective
Black Eye Gallery, Darlinghurst
"London gave me the freedom to go ballistic," said Robyn Beeche, the Australian photographer who was considered the "Andy Warhol of London'" and a central figure in that city's counter-culture during the seventies and eighties.
Beeche's studio in Thurloe Square, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum, was a magnet for creative souls. Drag queen and cult movie star Divine was a close friend, as was designer Zandra Rhodes and founder of the Alternative Miss World Pageant, artist Andrew Logan.
Steve Strange, lead singer of Visage and owner of the New Romantics nightclub Blitz, regularly worked with Beeche on new concepts.
Her collaborations with make-up artists Richard Sharah, Phyllis Cohen and Richard Sharples, where models' faces and bodies were used as an artist's canvas, resulted in some of the most groundbreaking trompe-l'loeil photography of the pre-digital era…" to read the rest of Alison Stieven-Taylor's feature on Robyn Beeche in the Australian Financial Review Weekend click the link.
Above: Beeche also documented the Holi festival in India for 30 years.
Read the story for more details.
Melbourne:
Peter Elliston - Southern Shores
This series shot in 1993 on the South Coast of England by Peter Elliston is the first exhibition in 2016 for Fitzroy's Colour Factory Gallery. It's a quirky collection of black and white images that echo the 1970s more than the 1990s.
Dorset
Sussex
Isle of Wight
Devon
Colour Factory
409-429 Gore Street
Fitzroy
