Category: Iceland

My next exhibition – LOCAL

I am very pleased to announce that I am a part of this year’s LOCAL exhibition at the Wyndham Art Gallery, 177 Watton Street, Werribee, Victoria, Australia. I am sharing this exhibition with local sculptor, Jonathan Mendez Baute.

I will be exhibiting large colour prints from Iceland and Coffin Bay National Park in South Australia; from my ‘Shifting Landscapes’ series. For the first time I have had the prints made for me, being too big for my printer. The prints were made by the fantastic team at Image Science, North Melbourne.

If you can make it, please come along to the opening at 6.30pm, Thurs 30 August. The exhibition runs from Friday 31st August 2018 until Monday 29th October 2018.

Shifting Sand – LOCAL at Wyndham Art

Melrakki by Joshua Holko

Melrakki is the Icelandic name for the Arctic Fox, the only mammal native to Iceland. Melrakki is also the latest project from renowned Melbourne photographer Joshua Holko.

Melrakki features a beautifully produced, limited edition book (I have number 5!), plus a superb print in an embossed folio cover.

Melrakki by Joshua Holko
Melrakki by Joshua Holko

The book features a foreword by Dr.Ester Rut Unnsteinsdottir of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History and extensive field notes by Joshua. Melrakki is the culmination of three winters of patient waiting to capture the magnificent images.

There are only 100 copies of this limited edition work, so if you want one, don’t mess about.

More information…

The Old Herring Factory

One of the places I return to when in the north of Iceland, is the old Herring factory at Hjalteyri. Hjalteyri is a small fishing village with currently less than 50 full time inhabitants. It is on the edge of the Eyjafjörður fjord not far from Akureyri.

The factory processed herring into fish meal and fish oil. It was built just before World War 11 and closed in 1966. The old concrete tanks, decaying walls and fading blue trim make it a rewarding place to photograph.

Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Hjalteyri, Iceland

 

Ice lagoon Exhibition Aftermath

My exhibition of images taken at Jokulsarlon, the Ice Lagoon, in Iceland is over.

The prints have been removed from the walls and the Point Cook public art space has been handed over to a new artist. All the purchased images have been delivered and the rest put away.

Thanks to all who came to see my prints and a big thanks to those who purchased one. I sold 19 prints making it my most successful exhibition ever. And I am now in the Wyndham permanent collection and the Encore Events Centre art collection.

A very special thanks to Megan Evans and Nicholas Boseley for their advice, encouragement and support. Wyndham City provides a lot of resources to support local artists and thanks to all in the Wyndham arts projects team for the great work that you do to make Wyndham an artist friendly place.

Ice on the Beach at Jokulsarlon, Iceland
Ice on the Beach at Jokulsarlon, Iceland

Ice Lagoon Exhibition

 

Invitation

My next exhibition features images taken at Jokulsarlon, Iceland over several visits. The prints will be available for sale in editions of 5 only. Each one will be matted, signed, dated and numbered.

Jokulsarlon is a glacial lagoon on the south coast of Iceland. It is formed by ice breaking off the Breidamerkurjokull in the Vatnajokull National Park.

The ice floats out to sea through a narrow channel and is often washed back onto the black lava sand beach by tides and storms.

This area is frequently battered by wind and heavy rain and received a lot of ash and dust from the 2010 eruption.

The images in this exhibition were taken over several visits: never in good weather. They are my interpretation of the wild beauty in this ever-changing landscape of rock and ice.

If you are in the vicinity of Point Cook, please drop in. My thanks to the people at Wyndham Art Spaces for this opportunity.

What’s that Skip? Another exhibition?

Yes, the good folks at Wyndham Art Spaces have offered me another exhibition to be held in February 2016.

The exhibition will feature images I have taken at Jokulsarlon, the Ice Lagoon, Iceland during several visits. The images will be A2 inkjet prints (printed by me on Canson Baryta Photographique), and they will be for sale.

Thanks very much to Nicholas Boseley and the art team at the City of Wyndham for the encouragement and opportunity. This is a great community initiative to support local artists.

This is a sample image from the set that will be in the exhibition.

Ice on the Beach
Ice on the Beach, Jokulsarlon, Iceland

Vanishing act

During the September 2011 trip to Iceland, I visited a small town on the south coast of Iceland: Eyrarbakki. I was looking for a cafe I had been told served the best lobster soup in the area. It was a rainy afternoon, and the town was very quiet, and just about everything was closed, including the cafe. In Iceland out of season you soon learn the word: Lokkad.

While I was driving around the town (it didn’t take long) I came across the (closed) Bakkabrim organic cafe. It appeared to be a plywood shack built in the middle of a disused car park near a small pier.

It looked fantastic in the watery light between rain showers. I managed a couple of quick shots of it before the rain drove me back into the car.

I went back in 2013 to photograph it again, but alas it was gone, there was just a disused car park near a small pier.

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Catching up…

After each holiday I make a book of the images that I think represent what I saw and did, also the ones that I think are worth keeping. However, I don’t always get around to doing this straight away. I have just started work on the 3000 or so images from the trip to Iceland in September 2011.

On this trip I stayed in Reykjavik, Budir, Stikkisholmur, Isafjordur, Holmavik, Akureyri, Reykholt and Vik.

The image below is Dagverdara, an abandoned farm on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula.

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