rebecca dagnall

paradise in suburbia

26 june - 25 july 2009

Rebecca is a young WA photographer doing some intriguing suburban imagery.

We featured Rebecca in our 2004 graduate exhibition, when we were The Church Gallery in Claremont, and have been following her progress since. Her photographs have moved from celebrating the everyday, in suburbs such as Thornlie, to finding extraordinary beauty hidden away along the waterways and walk-paths in our suburbs.

These large scale landscape photographs have been manipulated so that the mirrored backgrounds have strange shapes appearing through the trees; sometimes threatening, awe-inspiring, overwhelming or just downright breathtakingly beautiful. Truly sublime.

Since graduating in 2003, with Honours from Curtin University, Rebecca has exhibited in several group exhibitions, including The Bon Scott Project at the Fremantle Arts Centre last year. She is currently included in a major exhibition of Western Australian photography, being held at the University of WA’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery titled Transient States. We are very pleased to be able to present Rebecca’s first solo exhibition of new work.

paradise 1 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 160cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 2 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 155cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 3 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 161cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 4 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 170cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 5 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 166cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 6 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 167cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 7 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 171cm 2009 $1,800 unframed sold 1/10 to turner galleries art angels
paradise 8 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 171cm 2009 $1,800 unframed
paradise 9 edition 1/10 archival inkjet print 91 x 187cm 2009 $1,800 unframed