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'Strike' by Luke Jaaniste (QLD)
Artist Statement
This exhibition presents selected works from my ongoing Long Shots series.
The blurry image is more often than not treated as a photography mistake or amateur folly — out of focus, shaken, obscured. Historically and technically, it has been consigned to the background.
For me, however, the long-exposure blurred image has been ongoing area of investigation. Since 2006, I’ve conducted experiments in cities and rural environments around Australia, mostly at dawn, dusk and the dead of night.
Each image is created 'in the lens' through improvised choreographies of camera, body and landscape. They might appear digitally altered or even computer generated, but they are the outcome of taking a photo in a particular time and place, with particular lighting, colour, shapes, particular settings of shutter speed, aperture, white balance and focus, and particular movements of hand, wrist, torso and feet.
What I am after is something atmospheric, abstracted and ‘beyond’; landscape and gesture are strangely familiar yet alien, and as painterly as they are photographic.
Biography
Luke Jaaniste is a visual and sonic artist who works with ambience, mediation and the abstraction of the everyday.
His practice draws on his training in modular music composition (which begun at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music), his precise graphic eye (self taught), and his love of both vast spaces and intimate materialities (which goes back to early childhood in a remote rural valley). His artistic works have been exhibited, programmed and broadcast nationally and his music has represented Australia at the International Composers Rostrum (Paris, 2006) and Prix Muralic (Croatia, 2008). In 2007 he completed a PhD that explored ambient installation art at QUT Creative Industries Faculty, and his is currently a research associate with the Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.
This exhibition presents selected works from my ongoing Long Shots series.
The blurry image is more often than not treated as a photography mistake or amateur folly — out of focus, shaken, obscured. Historically and technically, it has been consigned to the background.
For me, however, the long-exposure blurred image has been ongoing area of investigation. Since 2006, I’ve conducted experiments in cities and rural environments around Australia, mostly at dawn, dusk and the dead of night.
Each image is created 'in the lens' through improvised choreographies of camera, body and landscape. They might appear digitally altered or even computer generated, but they are the outcome of taking a photo in a particular time and place, with particular lighting, colour, shapes, particular settings of shutter speed, aperture, white balance and focus, and particular movements of hand, wrist, torso and feet.
What I am after is something atmospheric, abstracted and ‘beyond’; landscape and gesture are strangely familiar yet alien, and as painterly as they are photographic.
Biography
Luke Jaaniste is a visual and sonic artist who works with ambience, mediation and the abstraction of the everyday.
His practice draws on his training in modular music composition (which begun at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music), his precise graphic eye (self taught), and his love of both vast spaces and intimate materialities (which goes back to early childhood in a remote rural valley). His artistic works have been exhibited, programmed and broadcast nationally and his music has represented Australia at the International Composers Rostrum (Paris, 2006) and Prix Muralic (Croatia, 2008). In 2007 he completed a PhD that explored ambient installation art at QUT Creative Industries Faculty, and his is currently a research associate with the Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.
