In a new exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery photographer Richard Morecroft reveals his passion for the landscape with a series of powerful images that document our land in an intelligent and subtle manner. These landscape images are not so much about particular places, but about the rules and results of physics, chemistry and biology – focusing upon the universal from micro to macro.
The Orange gallery space is the perfect venue to display these heartfelt images. Morecroft spends a good amount of his time working out in the landscape and for the past couple of years has developed a way of showing his photographs in a panelled format. Moorcroft’s photographs explore structure, process and time, looking closely at erosion, sedimentation, and fractal patterns of vegetation growth or mineral formation. All these elements follow consistent pathways, but produce their own myriad variations. The exhibition presents repeated motifs, like variations on a musical theme – and each image becomes an artefact containing the long history of its location.
Orange Regional Gallery
Until 5 January, 2014
New South Wales
Evolution (Convergent 2), pigment ink on photographic paper, 100 x 132cm
Courtesy the artist
