Our debut...
In August 2013 the City Library in Flinders Lane gave us a great opportunity to introduce ourselves – showcasing our varied work and subject matter.
Melbourne is...
…not the place you might think it is. Many stereotyped descriptives have been written about Melbourne. ‘The world’s most liveable city’…’Four seasons in one day’…’The garden state’… But underneath these florid statements lies an urban subtext—a city of counter-cultures and contradictions. Melbourne is light and dark and all shades in between. Graceful buildings from our colonial past stand defiant against brave futuristic visions. It’s home to a migrant’s tale or a cabinetmaker’s workshop. A stage for lovers’ trysts, lost souls, found treasures and sleeping rough. IMAGE CHASERS, a three year old collective of passionate Victorian photographers, have chosen to explore different perspectives of this extraordinary city, attempting to avoid the typical tourist brochure view of Melbourne and capture a side of the city that perhaps we do not always see, or simply walk past in daily life. Melbourne. A city that is so many things to so many people. A place that is as diverse as its 4 million plus inhabitants.
Eyes on the market...
2019 marked a big year for the group with two exhibitions at Brunswick Street Gallery.
In March after nearly two years of photographing and planning, Eyes in the Market finally
launched.
3065 (Fitzroy) 2020
This group exhibition explores through photography its people, environment and how the present is still very muchbuilt upon the legacy of the past.
Zodiac - 2023
Crops, wars, royal dynasties, political fates and destinies, lottery tickets, – All have at times been consulted by the readers of the planets. Whether you choose to believe or dismiss the world of western astrology, the undeniable truth is that this ethereal practice has been part of our world cultures for over 4000 years from Mesopotamia to Instagram.
Now in its eleventh year, the Image Chasers new group show casts an other-worldly look at fate and fortune as they reach for the stars, documenting the Zodiac’s twelve ancient signs with images that are at times playful, mysterious, and investigative.
Circles - 2025
From the mundane to the extraordinary, from the microcellular to the cosmic, from the personal to the universal circles are everywhere we look. They are there in the iris of an eye, the rings of a tree, in fruits and seeds, in raindrops, in the world’s great religious architecture, in the circular orbits of planets and star systems, and in the technology we depend on.
The circle is so common in the natural world it seems to represent some fundamental law. But circles formed by nature are organic variations on an abstract theme. Like the square, the triangle or the straight line, the circle — a single curved line equidistant from a central point — is entirely a product of the human mind, its perfection critical to our modern technological and industrial society. From the smallest machine cogs to the heaviest earth movers without it the modern world would grind to a halt.
The circle also has a cultural significance which goes beyond the practical and the material. As a metaphor it is found in all the world’s mythologies and religious systems where it has been imbued with profound psychological and spiritual resonances pointing to deeper, cyclical orders of reality.
Image Chasers meditate on how this elemental form appears in the natural world and in the human stories and spaces we inhabit.