Digital Catalogue: 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Richard Glover
b. 1959 Sydney NSW, lives Sydney NSW
Invisible Histories I, II, III, 2023
inkjet print on Alupanel
edition 1/5
Image courtesy of the artist © Richard Glover
Artist Statement
This triptych investigates the shape-shifting nature of a Sydney CBD building site. Each image aestheticises fleeting moments that stimulate considerations beyond the perfunctory of building construction, to reveal hidden stories and associations: a shadow-building reminds us of former structures and their cultural relationship; an eldrich-like arch of hoarding and scaffold alludes to a financial world nobody fully comprehends; reflections - shimmering against an exposed wall - appear as apparitions of vanquished lives.
Such interpretations stimulate thoughts regarding the significance of proposed structures, provide freedom to elaborate the increasing interconnectedness of the local with the global, and reveal untold truths that background our nation’s development.
About the Artist
Richard Glover is an architectural photographer and educator based in Sydney. His extensive international, commissioned photography experience addresses the pragmatic and conceptual outcomes of architectural design.
Allied to this is an exhibiting photography practice that highlights research of architecture and the urban landscape and its societal, political and economic relevance to culture. Glover's work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Royal Institute of British Architects, and is held in collections including Artbank Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tate Modern, London. Glover holds a doctoral degree in photography of architecture.
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