Yering Station’s Amanda Ruck, right, met last week with artists Elizabeth Tarrant and Belinda Inglese for the hanging of their exhibition.By Kath Gannaway
AMANDA Ruck has been curating exhibitions at Yering Station for more than three years but she says the current exhibition is one which has particularly excited her.
“I have been looking forward to exhibiting these two artists together with great anticipation,” she said last week, as she collaborated with artists Belinda Inglese and Elizabeth Tarrant prior to the exhibition opening.
Both women approached Ms Ruck in the same week, having never met.
“The similarity in their work was striking,” she said.
“Belinda’s stark psychedelic manipulation of the photographic medium created a burst of light in an otherwise traditional landscape.
“Elizabeth’s sensitive and emotional reflections of her landscape have a much more romantic feel and her colour use explodes the surface of the canvas.”
Ms Inglese is very much a local. Born and bred in the Yarra Valley, she has been involved in the wine industry for the past 10 years.
She shares many aspects of growing and producing; from planting, pruning, picking bottling and, of course, drinking in her work.
The beautiful surrounds of the Yarra Valley inspired a love affair with photography which has seen Ms Inglese travel the world.
Ms Ruck said her work evokes appreciation for natural textures, forms and colour found within nature’s own living landscape.
Ms Tarrant’s Yering exhibition will be her sixth solo show in as many years.
“Having exhibited extensively in Melbourne, Elizabeth’s work is a welcome addition to our Yering Station Art Gallery calendar,” Ms Ruck said.
Ms Tarrant says the purpose of her work is to communicate beauty and presence.
“Landscapes speak to me because of their beauty and their ability to transport a person into another realm of peace, tranquillity and unity with the universe,” she said.
The Yering exhibition portrays a series of photos Ms Tarrant shot in December on a full moon evening along the Yarra River.
“I chose this material for several reasons,” she said.
“The energy, the mystery, the need to ‘see’ into and intuit the source images.”
The Tarrant/Inglese exhibition opened on Saturday and will run through to 15 April.
Admission is free and all commission from sales will be donated to the Leukaemia Auxiliary of the Royal Children’s Hospital.
