| SIMON JOANNOU Opening: Saturday 1 September 2007 3-5pm Exhibition: 29 August to 15 September 2007 |
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Country, a word often used by someone to refer to land in which they have lived. The idea originally came from the term, “my country” as I have heard Indigenous Australians refer to the land of their birth, origin or history. This land now is of course dramatically altered. What intrigues me is how much more such people can see in their country be them black or white, their knowledge, their connection, their relationship with their country. All of these pictures represent land that has been dramatically altered, by our use of it. Signs of human existence litter these pictures, a telegraph pole here, cut logs there. I do not attempt to document this country, but rather express a feeling that it gives to me. Simon Joannou
-- SIMON JOANNOU
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Unlikely Places, GroundFloor Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2003 Domestic Bliss, Gallery Wren , Sydney, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 The Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah , Australia 2006 The Willoughby Art Prize, Willoughby, Australia 2006 Head on Alternative Portraits, Australian Photographers Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2006 The Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah , Australia 2005 Head on Alternative Portraits, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2005 National Photographic Purchase Award, Group Exhibition, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, Australia 2005 The Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah , Australia
EDUCATION 1997-1998 Studied at the London College of Printing 1998 Group exhibition London College of Printing 1999-2000 Assisting advertising/fashion photographers London
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