Derek Kreckler

Derek Kreckler’s photographs of the beach are, as his quite literal title states, ‘holey’. In a playfully disarming manner, he has excised spheres from the once seamless surface of his photographs, placing these circular elements on low plinths on the floor. As a performance artist of long standing, Kreckler brings a similarly dynamic quality to his photographic work. By creating a jigsaw of sorts, he invites the viewer to take on an active relationship as they look at the photographs, giving them the chance to imaginatively reassemble the ‘missing’ pieces of the images in their mind.

Isobel Crombie
Senior Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Victoria
Excerpt from exhibition catalogue

Derek Kreckler
Australia 1952
Holey 1 (diptych), 2003
Type C photographs
each 100.0 x 106.0 cm
6 spun aluminium and self-adhesive vinyl spheres
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist