Suki & Hugh Blog — Renate Rienmueller
No word for Black and White
Renate Rienmueller Tim Selwyn Wet plate photography Wood carving
Opening this Saturday 8 August, 'No word for Black and White' is a powerful collaboration between sculptor Tim Selwyn and photo media artist Renate Rienmueller. The focus of this exhibition is Renate’s relationship with Tim, a sculptor whose Indigenous ancestral line comes via his mother from the Wiradjuri / Wongaibon people (Central West NSW). Together they explore ideas around connection, responsibility to our land and its people, self-hood, community, identity and the need to challenge the stereotypes that separate us. Renate works in the artistic tradition of wet plate photography, a 19th Century photographic technique that she has researched extensively....