9 July – 13 August 2022
The Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to present About Time, by Karl Halliday opening at 6 pm, Friday, 8 July 2022.
About Time is the debut solo exhibition of Naarm-based photographer Karl Halliday. Inspired as a child rummaging through his parent’s archive of pictures recounting stories of their youth, Karl discovered in photography an opportunity to explore the ways images persuade our perception of the past and by doing so, inform our experience of the future. Much like memory, photographs are inherently partial to the prejudices of perspective, describing the world enframed not just through the camera lens but through the moral lens of its author.
Presenting an assortment of selected works produced between 2018 and 2022, About Time is a photographic essay that speaks to the biographical dimension of vision as articulated through the heightened subjectivity of the camera. At once both fictive and factual, staged and sincere, About Time is a pursuit of personal myth and a testament to the fallacy of ‘truth’ in photography.
Karl Halliday is a photographer, curator and writer based between Naarm (Melbourne) and Boorloo (Perth). Karl’s work has been shown in group exhibitions at leading photography institutions across the country, including the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Monash Gallery of Art, and Perth Centre for Photography. Karl’s images have appeared in print magazines and art journals including Popeye, Frankie and Brutus, as well as several online publications. In 2020, Karl self-published his debut editioned photobook, ‘Subjects: Selected Portraiture 2017-19’.
Parallel to his work as a photographer, Karl practices as a curator with a focus on lens-based media and conceptually-driven forms of artmaking, having produced exhibitions for PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography and independently with ‘Co-ordinates’, an exhibition survey of WA-based photographic art practice. Karl has written for contemporary art publications, web journals and exhibition catalogues, and in 2020 was part of SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program. Karl serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Blindside Gallery and as Projects Space Coordinator at Linden New Art, Melbourne. He holds a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of History of Art (Honours) from the University of Western Australia.
Image © Karl Halliday, Untitled (diptych), 2020, digital inkjet print, 609.6 x 1016mm. Image courtesy of the artist.
