David Urquhart: art and about

The phone is my darkroom

When I was a child there was no phone in our home. When I graduated from art college there were no mobile/cell phones.
I have always been interested in exploring technological advances and how they might encourage me to broaden my art practice. These advances have been a bonus for me as I have a disability which prevents me from carrying heavy photo gear .
I like the possibilities smart phones provide for working quickly. Street scenes (not people in the street) shops, night images and just everyday scenes that are often not noticed are what I most enjoy photographing.
I endeavour to make images which are not merely recordings, but which add something extra by way of abstraction and/or in post production. Monochrome or colour, whichever best suits the image suits me.

Light and shadow

Australian Centre for Photography
Paddington, Sydney.

Brain and Mind Research Institute
University of Sydney

Lamp and parasol

Patterns

Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney

Mix and match. Eton Lane Camperdown, Sydney

Walls.
National Gallery of Victoria,
Federation Square, Melbourne

ODDS n Ends

Art Gallery of New South Wales

How could I resist
On the road to Pigeon Forge TN 1976

Mérida, Yucatán Mexico

Fashion is not a pretty game
Glasgow, Scotland 1976

dave urquhart

July 25, 2014

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abstract, Art, Hipstamatic, Instagram, mobile cell phone, phone, phone apps

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maamej

July 27, 2014 at 9:04 am

The geometric close ups are beautiful, showing how it’s worth noticing the details, in a time when, ironically, technology so often encourages us to only passingly note the superficial and the obvious.

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eddashmore

May 31, 2015 at 7:23 pm

Hello Professor, Glad to see you are still working on stuff. I went to Newcastle to see John Witte Wednesday a week ago. Saw a nice show at the N’castle gallery plus some interesting stuff around the streets, including an amazing shop full of steam-punk sculptures. Bought a couple of cute cards with pics of Antony Green done by a guy John knows who had been an art teacher at TAFE. I’m going up again soon, to see a show at Maitland Gallery. The director there, Joe Eisenberg, is departing and has asked all the artists he’s shown there to make a work on paper for a final show. He had nearly 200 responses. So I figured it was worth a look. And I’m a Maitland virgin, so that’ll be exciting in itself. There’s an item about the show in the June Art Monthly Australia. There’s also a couple of pages about the show we saw at the N’castle gallery if you’re interested in checking that one out. I like the pics in your post. Had an artist from Melbourne, Wendy Kelly, drop into the MCA library today. We have a file on her in artists’ files but nothing else. Turns out she’s had 30 solo shows and numerous group shows and we have nothing on her. I asked her to send as much material as she can so we can put it into the library. The regionalism this kind of episode shows up is disturbing. God knows how many other artists from melbourne, Adelaide, etc we should have in the library. She works in abstraction and her website has some really interesting and attractive works on show. (www.wendykelly.com.au) OK. Say hello to David and pat the dogs for me. Stay well. Hooroo The Vice

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1. cactusdude
  
  May 31, 2015 at 7:39 pm
  
  Thanks Emeritus Chancellor, I want to spend more serious art time on this blog. I’m glad you found it; I had intended to email folks about it but have been busy and depressed so didn’t (yet).
  Ciao fa now.
  
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