Shannon McGrath, an established architecture photographer, aspires to capture the unique spatial dynamics of a building whilst transposing a distillation of the architect’s intention into a two-dimensional image. In this photographic series, McGrath examines the raw building material of wood in the same way she would approach the documentation of architecture.
The stacks of wood are considered for both their aesthetic values and formal compositional qualities such as patterning and seriality. Simultaneously though, they are envisaged as a core resource imbued with potentiality; their future incarnation, that of the architects vision, lying dormant and yet to manifest.
Anita Traverso Gallery
5 to 23 February, 2013
Melbourne
Mark 02, 2012, pigment print to cotton rag paper, 100 x 128cm
Courtesy the artist and Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
