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2011 has turned out to be one of the most rewarding years of my professional career, I have had one hundred and ninety two images collected by the Northern Territory Library, the Weekend Australian Newspaper have published four images with accompanying stories in the Heart of The Nation section of their Weekend magazine, three stories from the Northern Territory and one from Western Australia. In August I had a sell-out exhibition at the Art Warehouse in Darwin featuring a series of images created in Litchfield National Park.

I have also been given the opportunity to exhibit some of my new imagery made during the past six months working with Darwin’s Long Grass community. The venue chosen for this show is the CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra, the exhibition will be held between the 28th June / 15th July 2012.

I’m currently preparing myself for the next leg of my journey, which will take me into the desert of South Australia, during this time I will be building a body of work for the State Library of South Australia in such places as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta and Marree. I also intend to work my way up to the APY Lands in the far North Western corner of the state so as to be able to work with the Indigenous art cultures who are producing some of the countries best Indigenous art works.

After this I’m planning to move back into the Territory for the dry season where I will continue to make images for the archives of the Northern Territory Library.

 

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New images from 2011
now online - including recent ballet images (left)

- The Australian News paper have used one of my images for the add compain promote the Weekend Australian.

- Exhibition at CSIRO in Canberra for NADOC week 2012 to feature my NT Indigenous images.

- 56 images purchased so far by tthe NT Library - to be updated again after September 1st.


The Journey - 2010

Throughout my adventures of inner-city and outback Australia I have developed a hunger to gather knowledge about what it means to be an Australian.  Documenting the varying life styles and personalities of all classes, races, religions and sexes of individuals that inhabit this vast continent I have come to realise that every person has a need to feel as though they belong.  

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It is not essential to be a part of a particular class, race, religion or sex to belong here in Australia, it is the ability to possess a clear image of the society as a whole in order to recognise your role as a worthy contributing factor.  

In the midst of this diversity there are certainly national cultural stereotypes and national symbols that we all recognise as Australian, but do these really reflect the everyday reality of living as an Australian today?

So far I have worked my way through inner city Melbourne for two years, then on to outback NSW for three years where I spent time recording some of the original settler families who are still out there and going strong today.

After that I spent three years working my way through WA where I felt drawn north to the tropics, which is an important part of the Australian legend. So now the next part of my Journey sees me heading to the Northern Territory - see new images.

Darren Clark - 2010

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