Translucence

Head On Photo Festival 2013

Jacqui Dean

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Dates: 28 May 2013 - 08 Jun 2013

Location: Depot Gallery 2 Danks St Waterloo NSW 2017 Australia

Hours: Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 28/05/2013 7:30 am

In TRANSLUCENCE, her first exhibition for HEAD ON, Jacqui Dean reveals Australia’s flora, native and introduced – in radically new ways. Dean’s vision reduces flowers to their essential, sculptural shapes, and translates them into exquisite black and white prints. Calla lilies are seen as never before – with their curved flowers resembling the shape and texture of crystal chalices Dean’s images of roses, through scanning and digital magic, reveal interlaced petals adopting textures that mimic a bridal veil.

Jacqui Dean is a talented Sydney architectural, corporate and fine-art photographer known for her rigourous sense of composition and peerless black and white print-making skills. The twenty B&W prints on display at the Danks Street Depot Gallery show an artist exploring a subject close to her heart – Nature. “I was always curious about seeing the unseen. When I was commissioned to create a large graphic visual design for a building exterior for Abet Laminati, one of my corporate clients, I thought it would be interesting to show how the inside of a nautilus shell beautifully expresses the mathematician Fibonacci’s numerical sequence. So I had the shells x-rayed and the inner chambers of the Nautilus (shell) revealed Fibonacci’s classic spiral – probably one of nature’s most pleasing shapes to the eye. I had (also) been thinking of imaging flowers in this way. I experimented first with a rose. The results were exquisite proving there can be wonders hidden inside something as common as a garden rose. I had wanted to explore my personal vision and then apply it to my commercial work. And this was the answer.”