Wandering eye brings images on tour

By JONATHON HOWARD

CAPTION: Sailors of the Sunshine by Andrew Pearce will be one of many works to feature at the Warwick Art Gallery this month.

WARWICK Art Gallery will feature a major photography exhibition by emerging artist Andrew Pearce on tour from Albury Art Gallery in NSW.
Andrew Pearce has achieved both national and international success in the art of film and photography.
In 2009, aged 20 years, he won Albury Art Gallery’s Susan Moorhead Award for emerging artists.
This exhibition showcases Andrew’s dark and dreamy photographic artworks, where a lonesome figure is absorbed in the atmosphere of a mystical landscape. Natural elements such as fog, smoke and heavy clouds are exaggerated.
Andrew said visitors to the exhibit should expect to see photographs in the form of art.
“I find a majority of people still see photography as nothing more than a means of documentation, whereas I like to think this exhibition will demonstrate photography as another medium for art and creativity.”
At 10 years of age, Pearce obtained his first video camera: a black-and-white home security video camera that attached to his family’s television set. Using this camera, he began to shoot disturbing short horror films using his home as a location.
Andrew has won an International Music Video Competition, Genero.tv for the official Music Video for UK band Duran Duran.
This video along with two others can be viewed at the exhibition.
Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes says “It’s rare to find someone who has such a beautiful vision and the ability to bring that to life.
“It is without doubt one of the most inspiring videos I’ve seen for not only one of our songs but any song for some time.
“Andrew has an eye unlike others which is a rare yet evident talent”.
The Wandering will be on display until Sunday 30 June. Warwick Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday 10am-1pm.