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Black on White- Mona Ketelsen

Posted by admin | Under 2010 Friday Feb 25, 2011

Black on White

Mona Ketelsen

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Friedliche Revolution

Posted by admin | Under 2010 Friday Nov 5, 2010

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Friedliche Revolution

A commentary-photographic exhibition celebrating 20th Anniversary of the German Re-unification.

This exhibition is part of the In Unison festival and sponsored by:

The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Melbourne

The Goethe-Institut Australien

In Unison

GMA Garnet Group

Miss Maud

Monart Studio and Gallery

Marie Haass from Pianohaass

October 3rd, 1990 was the day East Germans and West Germans were reunited after 40 years of separation. The day when officially this separtion ended went down in history, not only for Germans, but for the whole world. It was the end of the communist era in the Soviet Union and all over Eastern Europe. At last the Second World War and the Cold War were over and a peaceful solution and outcome was agreed upon and achieved.

courtesy of In Unison

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Land and Water Vistas- Peter Moir

Posted by admin | Under 2010 Friday Oct 1, 2010

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LAND & WATER VISTAS

By PETER MOIR

Margaret River based artist Peter Moir attended Claremont School of Art in 1985 where he studied life drawing and sculpture under Richard Merito. After a 20 year break, due to a business career as Antiques dealer, he took up his artist’s tools again with renewed passion and has produced a vast amount of drawings and paintings since. Winner of many awards the latest being Highly Commended in the 2010 Art Cossack Art Award in Western Australia. Peter views art as the exploration of light and shadow playing on colour and form. Drawing inspiration from his extensive bush camping trips during which he often manages to draw and paint open-air.

2002 – 6 Margaret River Rotary Art Competition

2002 Rosa Brook Art Exhibition.

2002 Willyabrup Arts Festival, exhibiting at Fermoy and Ribbonvale
– Bacchanalia Exhibition, Busselton Arts Society

2003 Amberley Estate.

2004/5 Capel Fest Art Classic, winner of two Highly Commended Awards

2006 Inaugural Solo Exhibition, Gallows Gallery

2007 Exhibition, Old Bakery on Eighth, Maylands

2008          Award Vasse Art Exhibition
                  – 8 prizes, Best New Exhibitor Award, Margaret River Show.
                  – Exhibition, Lumiere Gallery

2009 Bunbury Regional Art Gallery’s South Western Times Survey, Dale Alcock Homes

2010 Cossack Art Award, Highly Commended.

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My Point of View- A photographic exhibition- Mona Ketelsen

Posted by admin | Under 2010 Friday Aug 27, 2010

My Point of View

A Photographic Exhibition by Mona Ketelsen

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MY point of view

A photographic exhibition by Mona Ketelsen

Everything we SEE around us was once a vision in the mind of its creator.

Whether in Nature or in our Man-made World, it is the vision of someone who saw the potential, the outcome, the possibility and the importance.

Someone who was able to SEE and not just LOOK.

To SEE here means to understand the deeper meaning of the object, to feel it, to think about it and respond to it. To SEE promotes action and involvement. It is the way we activate our innate perceptions and learnt experiences through our senses.

To LOOK on the other hand, means passively noticing without action, without engagement, without understanding and without involvement.

In a fast moving world dominated by visual images we have become accustomed to LOOK and to ignore our inborn ability of SEEING. Bombarded daily by millions of images, we have lost the desire to seek out the deeper meanings of things, the desire to engage. And to keep up with the fast pace of our lives, we adopted a fast way of thinking, the “Right-now” approach. This approach however reduces SEEING and observing to an act of merely LOOKING and processing.

Photography is one form of art that fell prey to the “Right-now” approach.

There is nothing easier than LOOKING through the viewfinder, pressing the button on a digital camera and PRESTO an instant result, a photograph that feeds the appetite of today’s fast thinking culture. But is that what photography is all about?

Is Photography about LOOKING? That detached, passive and none comitial act of the individual who’s sole aim is to LOOK without understanding? That mechanical act of taking a photograph? Is it about the camera?

Or is Photography about SEEING? That act of activating the individual’s innate perceptions and learnt experiences to SEE? To understand inner meanings and to respond? The photographer.

To me Photography is about the photographer. About his understanding of and his response to his times. His vision. The way he SEES. His point of view.

In my work I try to SEE, to slow the pace, to understand our times through everyday mundane objects. Objects we LOOK at without SEEING. I try to put them on display to make a point that those were once someone’s vision. To give them the importance they lost in the battle of the new. To restore their moment of glory, to highlight their beauty and to portray them, as they deserve to be, works of art.

This is my point of view.

Mona Ketelsen

Perth 2010

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