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Tracey Moffatt

TRACEY MOFFATT

The Burning Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 12 July–10 August 2024 Sydney
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Across a gothic dreamscape, the images of The Burning, have no sharp focus—bordering on the intangible, they change like moving sand when viewed from different angles and in different light. With other-worldly hues, and a film of dirt, a mist stirs in the burning landscape. Images struggle to stay together - they fall apart on the edge of evaporation.

It is a Wild West, a frontier. A woman in a Victorian era black dress is out for revenge. A shirtless youth grins in the shadows.

With a simmering intensity, the story reveals itself in the dark.

‘Some time back, I travelled with a small photo crew to one of my Indigenous family’s ancestral areas looking for locations to stage a new photo drama using myself and actors... The locations I uncovered were visually featureless - meaning no great dramatic mountain range, forests or even a decent desert-scape - I only found endless dry brown scrub. In a sense, the plainness of the location and the dirt triggered my fictional open-ended narrative. I attempted to ‘fill it in’ as if to paint across a blank canvas.’

  • Tracey Moffatt, 2024
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About the Artist

Tracey Moffatt is a photographer as well as a film maker. Her staged and directed photographs have a filmic, narrative quality.

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Established in Sydney by influential Australian art dealer and gallerist Roslyn Oxley and her husband Tony Oxley in 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is one of Australia’s leading commercial galleries.

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8 Soudan Lane
Paddington, NSW
Sydney
Australia
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10am – 6pm

Saturday
11am – 6pm
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Sydney 8 Soudan Lane, Paddington, NSW
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery contemporary art gallery in Sydney Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Lane, Paddington, NSW, Sydney, Australia
+61 2 9331 1919
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday
10am – 6pm

Saturday
11am – 6pm
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