Graeme Hare

Graeme Hare is a leading exponent of photography in this country who continually tests the limits of the medium, pushing it into exciting new territory. In this major installation he has worked within the framework of the Murdoch Court to create a site-specific exhibition that uses the latest digital technology to produce over two hundred images which explore the urban and natural landscape of Melbourne in a non-figurative manner.

Although his photographs originate in the world around him, Hare enlarges, crops and alters the images to a point where they become essentially abstract. The result is not a dry, didactic exercise but a lyrical and complex evocation of ‘place’ that plays on our memories and emotions. This is complex work that stretches the technical and conceptual limits of photography and as such, makes an important contribution to the creative development of the medium in this country.

Sourced from: Crombie, Isobel, et al. Graeme Hare: Photographs. National Gallery of Victoria, 1997.