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About the Collaboration
The idea to start this collaborative work was conceived on a recent trip to London to visit a friend who was terminally ill with a brain tumour. Our visit also coincided with Easter. On Good Friday, two days after our friend’s passing, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral and took a single photograph, which became the inspiration to complete our first work together – Salathiel (I have asked of God), shortlisted for the 58th Blake Prize for Religious Art 2009. The realisation that within our own bodies of work, we were both concerned with many of the same issues and aesthetics, led to the decision to create collaborative works which incorporated both our art practices – photography and painting, but only on the condition that they were combined in a cohesive and logical manner. In order for both of us to be involved in all aspects of creating an image, it was necessary for each of us to take an active roll in working with both mediums, equally. With this underlying principle in mind, we produced the works which make up our first collaborative exhibition – “First Born” .
Selected Exhibitions:
2011 "Milk of the Poppy", Blockprojects, Richmond, Victoria
2011 "Body Language", Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo, NSW
2011 "Artist Artists" curated by Robert Hirschmann, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
2011 "Wattle: Australian Contemporary Art", The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 "First Born", Blockprojects, Richmond, Victoria
Selected Press & Publications:
Crawford, Ashley, "Fecund Bodies", in Photofile Issue 91, Dec 2010 - March 2011, cover and pp 14-23
Clement, Tracey, "Telling Tales", in Australian Art Collector Issue 53, July-September 2010, cover and pp 176-183
Kim, ARam, "Welcome to My Week!", in Photo+ Vol.7, November 2010, pp 86-93
Robert Doble – selected biography
Drawn to the physical and emotional process of painting, Doble’s work is gestural and layered. Most important is the mark-marking upon these dense surfaces. Intrigued by scars, tracking, wounds and the exposure of what lies beneath, Doble’s work brings forth pluralities, as a means of generating discussion amongst his viewers. Robert Doble studied in the UK at the Chelsea School of Art, Reigate School of Art and Croydon College of Art. In 2006 he won the Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Award and was a finalist in the 55th & 58th Blake Prize for Religious Art and the Williamstown Tattersalls Art Prize. Doble has been exhibiting in Australia since 1998 and is represented in the National Gallery of Victoria with a painting from his “Gravity” series of 2000, as well as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Rockhampton Art Gallery, and private collections in Australia, Japan, UK, USA, Italy and Spain.
Simon Strong – selected biography
Strong creates works which explore our perception of what is plausible, ones that skirt the boundaries of the likely in order to ascertain how we define and respond to the ‘reality’ of our surroundings. He is intrigued by dreams and constructs of memory, the way in which our interpretation of events is often influenced by previous experiences or history. Strong defines his distinctive panoramas as a photographic composites, in as much as it involves the layering of different features into a cohesive visual statement. Simon Strong has a bachelor of Graphic Design from the National School of Design. Strong has been included in numerous group shows including “Snap Freeze: Still Life Now”, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2007 and “Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund” at the National Gallery of Victoria 2006-07. Most recently, he was one of five photographers to be included in the exhibition “Phantasia” at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, which then toured around Australia and was also shown at the Gallery of the Australian Embassy as part of “Photoquai”, Paris at the end of 2009.
www.dobleandstrong.com
For more information click here.
The idea to start this collaborative work was conceived on a recent trip to London to visit a friend who was terminally ill with a brain tumour. Our visit also coincided with Easter. On Good Friday, two days after our friend’s passing, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral and took a single photograph, which became the inspiration to complete our first work together – Salathiel (I have asked of God), shortlisted for the 58th Blake Prize for Religious Art 2009. The realisation that within our own bodies of work, we were both concerned with many of the same issues and aesthetics, led to the decision to create collaborative works which incorporated both our art practices – photography and painting, but only on the condition that they were combined in a cohesive and logical manner. In order for both of us to be involved in all aspects of creating an image, it was necessary for each of us to take an active roll in working with both mediums, equally. With this underlying principle in mind, we produced the works which make up our first collaborative exhibition – “First Born” .
Selected Exhibitions:
2011 "Milk of the Poppy", Blockprojects, Richmond, Victoria
2011 "Body Language", Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo, NSW
2011 "Artist Artists" curated by Robert Hirschmann, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
2011 "Wattle: Australian Contemporary Art", The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 "First Born", Blockprojects, Richmond, Victoria
Selected Press & Publications:
Crawford, Ashley, "Fecund Bodies", in Photofile Issue 91, Dec 2010 - March 2011, cover and pp 14-23
Clement, Tracey, "Telling Tales", in Australian Art Collector Issue 53, July-September 2010, cover and pp 176-183
Kim, ARam, "Welcome to My Week!", in Photo+ Vol.7, November 2010, pp 86-93
Robert Doble – selected biography
Drawn to the physical and emotional process of painting, Doble’s work is gestural and layered. Most important is the mark-marking upon these dense surfaces. Intrigued by scars, tracking, wounds and the exposure of what lies beneath, Doble’s work brings forth pluralities, as a means of generating discussion amongst his viewers. Robert Doble studied in the UK at the Chelsea School of Art, Reigate School of Art and Croydon College of Art. In 2006 he won the Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Award and was a finalist in the 55th & 58th Blake Prize for Religious Art and the Williamstown Tattersalls Art Prize. Doble has been exhibiting in Australia since 1998 and is represented in the National Gallery of Victoria with a painting from his “Gravity” series of 2000, as well as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Rockhampton Art Gallery, and private collections in Australia, Japan, UK, USA, Italy and Spain.
Simon Strong – selected biography
Strong creates works which explore our perception of what is plausible, ones that skirt the boundaries of the likely in order to ascertain how we define and respond to the ‘reality’ of our surroundings. He is intrigued by dreams and constructs of memory, the way in which our interpretation of events is often influenced by previous experiences or history. Strong defines his distinctive panoramas as a photographic composites, in as much as it involves the layering of different features into a cohesive visual statement. Simon Strong has a bachelor of Graphic Design from the National School of Design. Strong has been included in numerous group shows including “Snap Freeze: Still Life Now”, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2007 and “Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund” at the National Gallery of Victoria 2006-07. Most recently, he was one of five photographers to be included in the exhibition “Phantasia” at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, which then toured around Australia and was also shown at the Gallery of the Australian Embassy as part of “Photoquai”, Paris at the end of 2009.
www.dobleandstrong.com
For more information click here.
