Analogue Film Photographer and Printmaker
Finding redemption in sensitive observation.
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Naomi McKenzie
Naomi McKenzie works primarily with medium and large format film photography. Her practice centres around both traditional and alternative darkroom and printmaking techniques, which she has refined over twenty years of dedicated exploration.
McKenzie's work reveals her masterful understanding of light, line and texture whilst highlighting her deep observational skills. Through continuous experimentation with traditional processes, she pushes the boundaries of analogue photography, creating works that ask the viewer to step deeper inside the her art. Winner of the 2023 Queensland Regional Art Awards Emerging artist, McKenzies work continues to strengthen and evolve.
Her photographs and prints are held in private collections internationally and throughout Australia and she exhibits regularly in galleries and museums across the country. Working from her studio/darkroom in regional South East Queensland, McKenzie shares her expertise through workshops in schools and galleries, passionately fostering a new generation of analogue photographers.
Where We Meet
Exhibition: Online, 3 – 28 June 2024
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“Backyard sprinkler, rockpools, biting sun, sprouting pineapple top. There’s a literary quality to Naomi McKenzie’s work. Exercising the same perceptual salience as that found in a Tim Winton novel, she weaves the interpersonal with the weathered, prehistoric beauty of the Australian landscape. Her eye is cultivated and alert to temporal wonders.
Refreshingly free from contemporary visual trends and steeped in photographic history, when I first saw McKenzie’s work, I found the stars of twentieth-century photography winking back at me—the sensuality of Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham’s still lifes; the familial intimacy of Sally Mann; the shadow play in Olive Cotton’s photography; the smart composition of Toni Schneiders—all wrapped up in an antipodean sensibility.
Although an emerging artist on paper, McKenzie’s expertise tells a different story. Her arrival is long in the making, and she has been practicing with conviction for years.”
– Julia Scott-Green
Where We Meet features several black and white photographs by Naomi McKenzie, an emerging artist who was recently awarded as the winner of the Flying Arts Regional Arts Awards for 2023.
June 3 - 28
OneSpace
Online Exhibition