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Perdita Phillips

Perdita Phillips from Australia focuses on environmental issues and works with aspects such as sound and video in her installations. From: Walyalup/Fremantle, Australia. Shows: Cyanotypes. Dr Perdita Phillips is an artist living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja focusing on environmental issues and social change since 1991. Often conceptually driven, she has an expansive practice working in installation, environmental projects, walking, sound, video, sculpture and publishing. She has been making cyanotypes and … Read more

Lesley Duxbury

Lesley Duxbury from Australia photographs the landscape around her in cyanotype and sometimes tones her work using Eucalyptus. From: Briagolong, Victoria, Australia Shows: Cyanotypes, Polymer plate photogravures, Photograms. Lesley Duxbury is an Australian artist based in Gippsland. Her work includes printmaking and photography, especially polymer plate photogravure and cyanotypes. She has also dabbled in photograms. Her interests are in the atmospherics of landscapes and perceptions of place. She has undertaken … Read more

Leanne McPhee

From: Australia.
Shows: Chrysotype, Fuji Transfers, Salt Prints.
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Danielle Edwards

Danielle Edwards, from Melbourne, Australia, has extensive experience in medical photography. Inspired by nature she combines digital and analogue photography in her Platinotypes and other processes. From: Melbourne, Australia. Shows: Chrysotype, Lumen, Platinotype and Vandykes. For 29 years Danielle Edwards worked as a biomedical photographer in Melbourne, Australia. It required an approach of discipline and precision to produce medical photographs for documentation and standardisation. She recently retired from this industry … Read more

Vanessa Wiggins

Vanessa Wiggins is an Australian photographic artist working in carbons, gum bichromated and cyanotypes. Her work seeks to engage the viewer on several levels; to prompt or challenge social collective memory and to evoke the viewers’ internal dialogue of their experience. From: Vanessa works between Sydney and her studio in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia. Shows: Four colour carbon transfer, Gum bichromate, Cyanotype. Vanessa Wiggins’s visual imagery work draws on objects … Read more

Edward Richards

Edward Richards experiments with cyanotypes and salt prints and shows work from all over the world. From: Australia. Shows: Cyanotypes and Saltprints. Ted Richards is a semi-retired photographer living in Australia who took up alternate processes about a year ago just out of interest. So far he has experimented with salted paper and cyanotype prints, and intends to move into VanDyke shortly. Edward Richards has done them by making 5 … Read more

Lynette Zeeng

Lynette Zeeng has studied the limitations of these ‘alternative’ processes and how they may be modified to suit todays digital world, hence her wide spread of alternative photographic processes on display. From: Melbourne, Australia. Shows: Cyanotypes, Lumen prints, Mordancages, Oil prints, Polaroid Transfers and Tintypes. Lynette Zeeng’s creative practice is based on her investigation into historical photographic processes that create a singular unrepeatable handcrafted image. Her research included studying the … Read more

Dawne Fahey

From: Sydney, Australia
Shows: Chemigrams, Cyanotypes, Encaustic prints, Gum bichromates, Lumen prints and Mordancage.
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Ellie Young

From: Trentham East, Victoria, Australia.
Shows: Albumen prints, Ambrotypes, Carbon prints, Gum bichromates, Salt prints, Wet plate collodions.
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Gene Bagdonas

From: Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Shows: Cyanotypes, Vandyke browns, Gum bichromates, Gum over cyanotype, Cyanotype/Vandyke over inkjet, Platinotypes, Ziatypes, Photopolymer gravures, Polaroid image transfers, Albumen prints, Tintypes – modern, Ambrotypes, Salt prints.
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Chris Byrnes

Chris Byrnes is an Australian photographer after spending 9 years taking a BA. She loves printmaking and shows her cyanotypes, pinholes and vandykes.
From: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Shows: Cyanotypes, Pinholes, Vandykes

Wendy Currie

From: Melbourne, Australia.
Shows: Bromoils, Cyanotypes over gum, Cyanotypes, Pinholes, Vandykes over gum, Vandykes, Vandyke pinholes.
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