Colour Factory Gallery
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409-429 Gore St.
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Mike Reed
dal 6/3/2013 al 29/3/2013
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6/3/2013

Mike Reed

Colour Factory Gallery, Fitzroy

Shrouds is a collection of photographs of covered cars that spans over two decades and 6 countries. Mike equates the car covers to the burial garments adorning the dead in preparation for resurrection.


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‘Shrouds’, by Mike Reed is a collection of photographs of covered cars. His love of gleaning was inherited from his ‘rag and bone’ father who amassed a metal detritus found on the bicycle route home from the factory where he worked. This assortment was stockpiled in his father’s rusted sheds, which appeared like an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ to a youthful Mike.

‘The car was draped with a plastic sheet in the back blocks of Surfers Paradise whilst seeking to photograph decay in the landscape....You start with one and then see another then... over time, the medley plays into a collection. .. patterns precipitate or idiosyncrasies evolve from within...This is the joy of “seeing”. ‘

Mike equates the car covers to the burial garments adorning the dead in preparation for resurrection. Mike cites the ‘wrapping’ of objects found in the work of artists’ Christo, Jean Claude, May Ray and Magritte as inspiration. ‘Within my category of covered cars I began to view these still loved but lifeless vehicles, as if a resurrection was about to take place ... for the heavenly roads of restoration or hell.’

This incredible accumulation of images spans over two decades and 6 countries. A small selection has been chosen for this exhibition and a larger range appears in his book to be launched at the opening of ‘Shrouds’. ‘I had to finish this project... get it out of my head...’

From studying architecture to now shooting archetypes in the street, Mike was a film editor for 42 years, always with camera in his limited breaks from TV commercial post production. Street Photography now occupies most of his time.

Opening Thursday March 7th, 6 - 8pm

Colour Factory Gallery
409-429 Gore St. , Fitzroy
Hours: Mon-Fri, 10-6. Sat 1-4
Free Admission

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