HIGH St, Northcote will become one big art gallery during Northern Exposure next month. Festival co-ordinator Benita Bunting said numerous gallery closures in the area have forced organisers to find creative ways of keeping the annual visual arts festival alive. The resultant search has turned up some unexpected arts venues.“People will be able to stumble across small works of art in all sorts of nooks and crannies along High St and this will brighten up their day,” she said.
Among artworks planned for the two-week festival from June 17 are a spider’s web in an alleyway made from emergency tape and everyday objects covered in gold leaf. This year’s festival will have three separate elements: High Views, comprising site-specific artworks made for shop windows; Small Works Small Spaces, comprising urban street art and; High Events, which will include activities such as artist talks, tours and an artisans market. Northcote photographer David Tatnall is among those already preparing works with his pinhole camera.
Last week he set up the large box-like camera to take a photograph in Palomino cafe, which will be displayed in the window during the festival. Tatnall said he began using pinhole cameras 15 years ago as an aid for teaching photography but became fascinated by the mysterious beauty of the image they produced. “The nature of pinhole photography requires exposure times that are long,” Tatnall said.“This often gives a ghostly and mysterious quality to the photograph.”For more information go to tvseies blog.
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