John Toohey: Terra

Thursday 29th May 2025
(Multiple Dates Between Thursday 29th May 2025 & Saturday 21st June 2025)


JOHN TOOHEY- TERRA 

29 May - 21 June 2025 | Albany Town Hall 

Terra is a solo photographic landscape history of Western Australia, based around three narratives, South Land, Blood and Bone and Basin and Range. At its core is the evidence, depicted through panoramic images and text panels, of the reconstruction of landscape since colonisation as a cultural act (hence the pun in the title).                              

Basin and Range tells a story of the landscape from deep time to the present through panoramic sequences. These split frame scenes combine a reading of both time and space in the one image, extending from the early formation of the landscape to the present. South Land recasts the coastlines the Dutch named in the seventeenth century, De Witt’s Land, Eendrachts Land, D’Edel’s Land, Leeuwin Land, and Nuyts Land. These were names given to parts of the coastline that had been charted but were essentially imagined as the Dutch seldom made landfall. Leeuwin Land and Nuyts Land belonged to the coast between Cape Naturaliste and the border with South Australia, encompassing King George Sound, though nothing in surviving documents indicates that either expedition was close enough to the coast to enter the Sound. The landscapes are reimagined through a series of panoramas, snapshots and postcards. Blood and Bone challenges the standard depiction of early settlers as resilient in the face of hardship, recasting the history through acts of violence and madness reported through the press.

Open 29 May - 21 June 2025 

Albany Town Hall - 217 York St Albany 

Tuesday - Saturday 10-5pm 

Event Details

Location: 217 York Street

Venue: Albany Town Hall

Cost: Free

Category: Exhibitions, Exhibition

Type: General

Audience: All Ages

Enquiries

Contact: Arts & Culture

Event Date(s)

  • Thursday 29th May 2025
  • Friday 30th May 2025
  • Saturday 31st May 2025
  • Tuesday 3rd June 2025
  • Wednesday 4th June 2025
  • Thursday 5th June 2025
  • Friday 6th June 2025
  • Saturday 7th June 2025
  • Tuesday 10th June 2025
  • Wednesday 11th June 2025
  • Thursday 12th June 2025
  • Friday 13th June 2025
  • Saturday 14th June 2025
  • Tuesday 17th June 2025
  • Wednesday 18th June 2025
  • Thursday 19th June 2025
  • Friday 20th June 2025
  • Saturday 21st June 2025

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