New exhibition explores Northern rivers’ youth and their surroundings

A brand new exhibition by documentary photographer Tajette O’Halloran, opening this week, provides an intimate portrait of the younger individuals who collect at a widely known deserted brickworks quarry in rural New South Wales.

Photographed over two years at Bexhill Quarry on the outskirts of Lismore, NSW, The Quarry paperwork the individuals and ecosystems throughout the space that has develop into a well-liked swimming vacation spot for each locals and vacationers.

At the centre of this work is the expertise of adolescence in regional and rural contexts, and the situation of the quarry as an off-the-cuff social house the place adolescents collect, carry out, and kind communities.

Located inside a flood-prone panorama marked by cycles of disruption and restoration, the exhibition seeks to attract on these cycles and captures the continued means of restore, rebuilding and restoration that characterises the neighborhood.

Tajette O’Halloran describes herself as an Australian photographic artist whose observe investigates the social and emotional terrain of adolescence, identification, and belonging throughout the context of regional and rural Australia. 

Speaking in regards to the mission on her web site, O’Halloran describes the quarry as a web site the place people search refuge from the warmth, and the extra delicate pervasive hardships of their lives.

“Through these connections, the work uncovers the ways in which both human interaction and the surrounding environment engage in a constant state of flux and transformation,” she says.

The Quarry opens on August 1 and runs till 31 August at Melbourne’s Hillview gallery, 43-45 Edward St, Brunswick.

You can discover out extra in regards to the exhibition here.