Transformation Thank you

We would like to thank Sydney Customs House and X Square Design for their excellent service for Transformation, an exhibition by Andrew Goldie. Event Photo Gallery


Special thanks to Ms Sandy Edwards for the generous review and the media for covering the event.

Andrew Goldie and I look forward to bringing you more amazing exhibitions in the future.

- Arthur Chan (Art2Public)

Click to view online version of the exhibition

Click to view opening photo

Media Coverage 

Review by Ms Sandy Edwards'Transformation' at Customs House | Habitus Living
Sydney: Andrew Goldie Transformation - Le Journal de la Photographie (le français / English)
Transformation攝影展 感受悉尼海岸之美 | 喂喂網 (繁體中文)

Andrew Frost | Metro Critic' Choice | Sydney Morning Herald, Metro Magazine | Friday 22 February 2013 | P.2

Editors | Curator Tour the Sites | The Australian Financial Review | 16-17 Feburary 2013 | P.48

Daisy Dumas | Perusing La Perouse in a different Light | Sydney Morning Herald | 11 March 2013 | P.24

Sarah Thomas | Going Out | Unwind, The Sun Herald | 3 March 2013 | Page 3

Cat Chen | 潘多拉盒里的秘密TRANSFORMATION摄影展|新快报生活一周| PP.22-25

Editors | Unearthy Coastline Images in Exhibition | Southern Courier | 20 February 2013 | P.27

Robert Kennard | Moon Shine On Coast | Northern District Times | 20 February 2013 | P. 35

Andrew Goldie's Beautiful Sydney Seascapes | Australian Photography

校友说 分享生活中的点滴 TRANSFORMATION摄影展|XiaoYouShuo (简体字) Andrew Goldie: Transformation - Customs House | Time Out, Art Section
Transformation | Broadsheet Sydney
13th February 2013 | Sydney Art Galleries and Art Community (Listing)
Transformation by Andrew Goldie | What's On - City Of Sydney (Listing)
Transformations. Andrew Goldie – Experience Sydney Australia

Catalogue Essay
All forms of life experience the cycle from beginning to end, birth and death. But what happens after or between such cycles remains an unknown.  Assuming cycles revolve and the energy or spirit is carried from one form to another there remains an area which neither Science or religion can inform us.


Some spiritualities believe in multiple reincarnations.  Science also informs us through the conservation of energy and mass theories that energy can be neither destroyed nor created but simply transferred. If we see the spirit as a form of energy then there must be some form of transformation that inhabits the process of birth death and the passage of life.
Working from this basis Goldie has sought to create images that depict his visions of these hidden mysteries, describing moments illuminated by flashes of energy and beauty illustrating his idea of the hidden transformations of energy.

In making these works Andrew Goldie pushes the boundaries of photography through his use of light to create a surreal moment. His images are a reflection of his mind's eye.  This series is about the energy that is ket to us all, which moves through this world unseen, powerful and illuminating moments in time.

For this exhibition, Goldie has utilised stunning coastal locations of the Eastern suburbs and Botany Bay in Sydney. With the help of his team of assistants, cameras, lighting, generators and computers weighing well over 100kg altogether, were hauled across steep cliffs, rock pools and local National Parks to create ultimate images of his imagination.

The resulting works are these enigmatic scenes, hinting at the mesmerising allure of surreal moments, with energies morphing from one form to another gracefully dancing through brief and often unnoticed transformations, creating the hidden link. With lingering and yet haunting beauty, the images are pure and almost supernatural. We may not be given the answer of the universe, but he has certainly captured moments of beauty. This series is comprehensive in its explorations, generating lasting impressions that can be visited over and over.

Arthur Chan - 2013

NoteLimited edition fine art prints are available in 2 sizes:
770mm x 550mm (edition of 3)
520mm x 390mm (edition of 3)

For remaining editions for sale please contact info@andrewgoldie.com

Situational

Kath and I met in 2010 when she put together an amazing installation of an escape rope hanging down the facade of an old police station – Gaffa Gallery. Last year she was a Bundanon Artist-in-Residence. 

I encountered further large scale works of Kath’s in 2011 when she was working in Newcastle’s Lock Up Museum. When I visited the exhibition of Situational, I was expecting a large scale installation. 

Kath managed to surprise me again with a series of small scale works along with photographs and a video, documented time and how time moved. However, difference in scale did not take away the beautiful sensuality that Kath has for the universe, particularly Worlds Within. 

Some works, like Insinuate, take after her previous works. I particularly enjoy Spring Scramble and recalled her previous blog post about a kangaroo passing through a fence leaving hair on the fencing wire. I can not help to think, as the Earth move and we spin with it, little things we shredded: hair, finger nails and etc, did they marks of our existence? 

Please enjoy Kath’s exhibition, on view now until 17 March 2013. Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Pidcock Street, Camperdown. http://www.kathfries.com

Please also note, The John Fries Memorial Prize 2013 is now open for emerging artists, this is a kind donation by the Fries family in memory of former Viscopy director and honorary treasurer, Kath’s father, John Fries. please visit www.viscopy.org.au for detail. 

Pop Up Shop Alert

Next Monday sees my dear friend Carlos and partner Dan opening their pop up shop Mak Mak on 601 King St Newtown, trading starts at 11am. One thing for sure is all macaroons are hand made and they are delicious. I forced him to make a 100 of them for my 24.5th birthday 3 years ago…

Andrew Goldie 2 / 攝影藝術家

© Andrew Goldie

Before I go into the Japan Panorama series, I found this stunning image from artist Andrew Goldie’s website. This image carries a two-folded wonderment about the human mind and human’s place in the universe; the image represented the particular moment where something can mean “either-or”: is she about to throw herself off the cliff, or is she simply trying to appreciate a moment of solitude? Andrew’s work is about the universe and mind and the push and pull of balance – which is something I found very exciting, exhilarating and even inspirational – as human construct our civilisations, we need to be aware that we are still living inside a much larger and unfathomably complex universe.

Andrew once told me there is a “split between the primeval mind and the freshly born consciousness that seeks to control and order so that the primeval mind will not consume us.” When one come across an artwork like this, it is beyond beauty that you can appreciate – it take your mind to a journey and encourage you to think or reflect, and that’s why I like Andrew’s art.

在我寫Andrew Goldie的Japan Panaroma系列之前,我必須提一提在Andrew的網站,我發現了一幅可說是震撼的新作。相中人是想着跳崖?還是嘗試走近崖邊享受片刻的孤獨?意味著一個人外在內在兩折的的平衡,宇宙和心靈的推與拉的雙重意義和感受。Andrew曾經告訴我,他希望作品能夠看透頭腦意識和原始本能在一個人生命中的拆分,推與拉的雙重意義:他認為這種拆分和推與拉是保衛我們不會自我消耗的一種自我保護式。我非常喜歡這個概念。

Andrew的作品不僅美麗,還是一種心路,一種旅程,一種反映和一種平衡,也許這就是我喜歡他的作品的原因吧。

Andrew Goldie / 攝影藝術家

© Andrew Goldie

Perhaps it is strange to put Andrew’s work in the ‘I Came Across’ group, given I known Andrew for a while.

Not the very first artist I worked with but I’m glad to have Andrew as the first artist featured on my blog. Sydney based photomedia artist Andrew Goldie worked in UK, US, Mexico, and many Western European countries since 2000.

Goldie have been working in both visual art photography and commercial photography, notable clients including Sydney Magazine, Financial Review Magazine, Sunday life Magzine, Sport & Style, Good Weekend and East West Magazine.

I came across an artist statement describing the work above which I really enjoy

“I live on the beach at Bronte so every now and again like this morning I get out there for a sunrise and take a few photos.   I just got a new camera, the Nikon D800e so I’m super keen to get out there and try it out.    This scene is about 30 metres from my front door so it’s not a far stretch but I was up late watching the Tour de france.   Luckily my 10 month old boy is a good alarm.   He always seems to wake up half an hour before sunrise. Perfect timing.” – from passage Bronte, July 2012

In 2006 he lived and exhibited in Japan where he returned in 2012 and commenced his new series Japan Panorama, this new series present the public a remarkable depiction of diversity within the culture, nature and cityscape – I’ll talk about it next week.

‘I came across’ (偶然發現),實際上對已認識多年的Andrew來說,其實不算最適合。

不是我首位合作的藝術家，但我很高興Andrew同意我寫關於他的博客文章。Andrew Goldie自2000年以來，先後在英國，美國，墨西哥，和許多西歐國家工作;作品重視國際性形象。
攝影是Andrew的重點專業,過去他曾為Sydney Magazine, Financial Review Magazine, Sunday life Magzine, Sport & Style, Good Weekend and East West Magazine等媒體合作。

我真的很喜歡Andrew對上面的照片的陳述:

2012年7月:我是住在Bronte海灘旁的。某一個日出，被10個月大的兒子弄醒了,他安靜下來之後,我也差不多完全醒了，趁機拿着新買的攝影機嘗試一下。這一幕是從我家門前​​約30米,想不到碰巧一個完美的時機。

2006年Andrew從日本回澳,2012年作客到日創作全新Japan Panorama系列攝影作品我將博客一下。

What the…?! / 吓?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19358072

These days when you type in Cecilia on google, one of the auto search suggestion will be Cecilia Gimenez – she is the 80 years old femme fatale whom… er… let’s say brought very new vibe to a historical fresco… I bet she didn’t thought she would become an international sensation.

I consider myself agnostic but I do feel bad to the artist’s granddaughter whom donated this piece, it can be a very good example that explains why artists around the globe were trained. In Australia, many art initiatives were ran by volunteers of artists and art lovers, they are trying to express their creativities while paying the bills, feeding their families, or (like myself) paying for the university debt years after graduation… Art professionals spent years to perfect their skills so they would not create an interesting story like Cecilia’s, while most of them, struggle to survive. My friend Col and his wife Christine once told me, “sometime its a blessing if an artist manage to break-even” – What if there is an business operational format that a larger number of artists can be benefited instead of for example, art competitions having just one (or a few) winner? If only 1 survive, it’s not an art industry, it’s reality TV…

Can they make it happen? / 隨想3

Hong Kong always have a special place in my heart, not only that was where my family came from, it is also a place where people work so hard, for decades, people in Hong Kong refer their home as a cultural desert, I sincerely hope this would bring some much needed changes.
http://www.wkcda.hk/en/newsroom/press_releases/index_id_112.html

香港在我心中始終也有一個特殊的地位,我衷心希望西九為被視為文化沙漠的香港帶來一些轉變