SURFWORLD TORQUAY: VISIONS
EXHIBITION LAUNCH
Photographers Jack Finlay, Mal
Sutherland, Alison Aprhys, Steve Ryan and Barrie Sutherland at the launch of
the Visions Exhibition.
SurfWorld museum Torquay launched its summer exhibition ’Visions’ on Monday 14th of December. Legendary lens men Barrie Sutherland (Vic) and Mal Sutherland (Qld) got to meet for the first time, to both officially open the museum, and talk about their careers and work on display.
Barrie has a couple of classic shots on show, an evocative dawn scene at
Bells from 1966 and a great shot of Wayne Lynch switch-foot at Bells in
1967. Mal has loaned a couple of his iconic images, Bob Cooper surveying the
scene at ‘the Pass’ in 1964 and an epic shot from Noosa’s National Park car
park from 1964.
The exhibition features a mixture of black and white images from the '60s
and '70s as well as contemporary colour shots. On the walls are images from
stellar Australian surf photographers John Witzig, Hugh McLeod, Albert
Falzon, Barrie Sutherland, Mal Sutherland, Dick Hoole, Jack Finlay, Wendy
Mitchell, Sean Davey, Steve Ryan and Tony Harrington.
The work of this talented and respected group has been boosted by the
addition of stunning images from local surf photographers Darren
Noyes-Brown, Kevin Way, Alison Aprhys, Red Whyte and Mathew Stevenson’s
amazing digital images. Through his Bell Street Printworks & Gallery Mathew
also supported the exhibition by printing and mounting a number of the
images on display.
SurfWorld Torquay curator Craig Baird said: “We have enjoyed fantastic
support for this exhibition from photographers, and now we are enjoying the
enthusiastic response from visitors to the museum. It has been quite a
thrash to get everything sorted, with John Foss and Alan Miles going above
and beyond the call of duty to help make it happen, but we are stoked with
the outcome”.
The Visions exhibition will remain on display at SurfWorld Torquay’s newly
renovated temporary exhibition space until March 2010.