Stand 6 – Photograhers of the Greatdivide: Victoria Cooper & Doug Spowart
The artists acknowledge the support of the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), a joint Queensland Government and Toowoomba City Council partnership to support local arts and culture.
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper
For that ahead which is left behind, 2006
The visual story of a transcontinental crossing in a CarCamera obscura. The artists converted their Toyota Tarago van into a travelling camera obscura. The story is composed of the documents made of the Carcamera Obscura images and the idiosyncratic experience of the romance with the outback journey. Pigment inks on watercolour paper. 24 ppconcertina. 30 x 21 x 2 cm, open 5.25 m. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide. Unique state of first printing. $3,000
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper
Taking Photos @ 110Kph 2006
The images and recordings or “metadata†of the Carcamera obscura captured while in motion. Pigment inks on water colour paper. 16 pp concertina. 30 x 21 x 2 cm, open 3.78 m. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide. Unique state of first printing. $2,500
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper
Auto Rotation, 2006
Auto Rotation is about the pilgrimage drive around the circumference of Uluru. The images were made inside the moving Carcamera obscura at intervals of one minute, 11 minutes/ 11 exposures/ 11 kms. Pigment inks on water colour paper. 14 pp concertina. 30 x 21 x 2 cm, open 3.36 m. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide. Unique state of first printing. $2,500
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper
Side trip folder cards, five different journeys, 2006
Each folder card contains a series of images to recount our experiences during side trips taken from our transcontinental crossing of Australia. The following are the side trip destinations and subjects: Devil’s Marbles, Fanny Bay sunset, Uluru sunset, Kakadu, Important signs. Pigment inks on paper. Concertina 12 x 17 cm. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide in editions of five titles, each title in an edition 25. $150 per title, set of 5 $750
Victoria Cooper
Koolunga Bunyip, 2007
This book is a response to the violent attack on a Bunyip committed in the late 19th century by the local community of Koolunga driven by fear of the unknown. Pigment inks on water colour paper. 21.5 x 26 x 2.5 cm, open 6.8 m. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide in an edition of 3. $750
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper
Water Babies, 2006
Through their collaboration a visual story was formed into considered associations of words and images to convey the sensations and thoughts of the simple but sublime experience of a water hole in Kakadu. Pigment inks on archival paper. 38 pp, wire bound. 30 x 12 x 1 cm. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide. Prototype. $500
Victoria Cooper
Presence, 2006
Presence references the history of Uluru and reflects on what the tourist sees and what lies beyond their vision. Pigment inks on archival paper. 12 pp concertina. 9 x 12 x 1.5 cm, open 1 m. Signed and dated. Published by Photographers of the Greatdivide in an edition of 10. $240
Victoria Cooper
Light and Colour forming the body of the land, 2006
Under a tree, shaded from the glare of the clear sharp central Australian light. Pigment inks on water colour paper. 13 x 15 x 1.5 cm, open 1 m. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide. Unique state of first printing. $300
Doug Spowart
Hitting the Skids, 2006
A humorous flip book looking at the phenomena of skid marks on outback highways. Pigment inks on archival paper. 48 pp. 21 x 8 x 1 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide in an edition of 100. $275
Doug Spowart
Profiles, 2006
The dual issues of the origins of the sun-made photogram and the traveller as collector of found objects are explored in ‘Profiles’. Pigment inks on archival paper and silver gelatin. 22 pp. 21 x 14.5 x 1 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide – unique state of first printing. $325
Doug Spowart
Marks on Roads; Marks on the lives of outback travellers, 2006
Skid marks and the circumstances of how / why they appear on outback roads is the subject matter here. Pigment inks on archival paper. 22 pp. 212 x 29.7 x 1 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide. Unique state of first printing. $350
Doug Spowart
Beyond the Containment of the Track 2006
Spowart invites the viewer to follow his journey, both physical and metaphorical, which leads from home to places where his quest for the wilderness meets with its resolution. Pigment inks on archival paper. 13 pp in handmade acrylic clamshell. 50.4 x 23 x 2 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide. Unique state of first printing. $750
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper
#1 Artist Survey, 2007
Published by the Centre for Regional Arts Practice, this stamp book deals with the question of, “Does where you live influence your arts practice?” Readers are taken through a series to establish the regionality of their practice. Ink on book paper. 12 pp. 15 x 10.2 x .5 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide in an edition of 25 + 5 proofs. $25
Doug Spowart
Proposal for Revising Australian Landforms (Supersizing country), 2007
This book deals with how history and public opinion can be manipulated and swayed for political and commercial gain by any person or agency of power. Texts and 9 photomontages. Folios long stitched to cover. Printed by Epson pigment inks on Epson Double-sided Matte paper. 24 pp. 21 x 15 x .15 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide. First state. $450
Doug Spowart
The improbable journey, 2007
A journey along a track where the usual references have been distorted by transforming the traveller’s view through its concertina folding. Viewed from the front, the diamond-shaped designs subvert the reality of the roadway evoking a feeling of the road ahead and the road behind simultaneously, and viewed from an oblique left or right shows only the forward or the return journey. This photo book work is at once a map, a visual conundrum and a record of travel. Archival inks on watercolour paper. 17.5 x 14.5 x 2 cn, concertina opens to 3 m. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide. First state. $375
Victoria Cooper
Five Stories from the Gorge, 2001
Inspired by the symbolism and changing perspectives utilized to create narratives in Chinese landscape scrolls, these works represent the last bastion of a natural chaos and order, an anti-culture, occurring on the fringes of agriculture. The scrolls are stored and presented in a handmade acrylic box, designed and constructed in a collaboration between the artist, Wim de Vos and Doug Spowart. Pigment inks on Hahnemühle Japan paper. Vertical hanging scroll, 2.2 m x 29 cm x 13 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide, five scrolls, each in an edition of 8. Each scroll $2,000, set of 5 $10,000
Victoria Cooper
Images of Metaphor, 2007
The images in this book are selected from the microscopic exploration of the landscape of a decaying leaf litter found in the mythical waters below Pulpit Rock on the Shoalhaven River at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon from the artist’s June 2007 residency. Pigment inks on archival book paper. 14 pp. 21 x 29 x 1 cm. Signed and dated. Photographers of the Greatdivide in an edition of 10. $275