MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS has been selected for the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award with an image taken at in an abandoned missile detection station on a glacier in Greenland. Fredericks latest project in Greenland resulted in the exhibition Topophilia at ARC ONE Gallery in 2013.

The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice and a highlight of Gold Coast City Gallery’s exhibition program. Established photographers are showcased alongside emerging, resulting in a stunning reflection of contemporary practice that examines diverse themes and approaches.

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Photographer MURRAY FREDERICKS' was the Time-Lapse Specialist for the ABC's documentary First Footsteps, 2013, utilising his skills in capturing enormous expanses of land and sky as the light and conditions evolve, in remote and beautiful locations.

First Footsteps has just been announced as the 2013 Walkley Documentary Award winner.

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View and example of Fredericks' time-lapse here.

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Murray Fredericks, Icesheet #0712, digital pigment print, edition of 7, 120x150cm.

Murray Fredericks, Icesheet #0712, digital pigment print, edition of 7, 120x150cm.

ARC ONE are pleased to announce Murray Fredericks’ latest series of photography is now on display in the exhibition Topophilia, 6 Nov - 7 Dec 2013, ARC ONE, Melbourne.

In the three years from 2010 to 2013, internationally renowned photographer Murray Fredericks made six journeys to the centre of Greenland’s Ice Sheet to create his latest project, Topophilia. Ten epic photographs from this series will be exhibited at ARC ONE Gallery from 6 Nov to 7 Dec 2013. 

In Topophilia, Fredericks continues exploring the subjects of ‘space’ and the ‘void’. Conveying ‘an emotional experience of space’, Fredericks describes an ‘inner’, rather than ‘outer’ landscape. Fredericks locates his projects in featureless, perfectly flat landscapes austerely defined by an unbroken and continuous horizon. Working in such minimal environments, temporal atmospheric phenomena and the subtleties of light become powerful elements that define the visual plane. Verging on transcendental, this view transports us beyond our culturally imbued recognitions of the geographical qualities of place. 

In these locations, moments with the potential to transcend the ‘literal’ present rarely. As a result, Fredericks’ projects extend over many years, with months spent in inhospitable places like Greenland’s Ice Sheet and Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, where the iconic series Salt was conceived. From the thousands of photographs produced, only a handful of images successfully convey this experience of space - where the landscape becomes merely the medium, rather than the subject. Whilst surviving in these locations (often solo) is a dangerous proposition, Fredericks says that the adventure is simply a by-product of the pursuit of a vision and an adherence to concept.

- Annabel Holt, November 2013 

Fredericks’ resulting large-scale photographs have been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. Fredericks’ work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Artbank, Sydney; Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney; Sir Elton John Collection, London; Valentino Collection; ABN Amro Collection, Museum of Sydney Collection, Sydney and numerous prestigious private collections. Fredericks has produced two documentaries; the multi-award winning and widely acclaimed Salt (Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre) and more recently Nothing on Earth, filmed in Greenland whilst producing Topophilia.

For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com

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Murray Fredericks, Hector Thunderstorm Project, still from video, 2011

Murray Fredericks, Hector Thunderstorm Project, still from video, 2011

ARC ONE announces Late-Night Projections at Cumulus Up in November, screening works by artists including ANNE SCOTT WILSON, PETER DAVERINGTON and MURRAY FREDERICKS.

Projections will take place onto Collins Place from the 1st floor of the restaurant and wine bar Cumulus where you can come enjoy a specially designed late night menu.

Dates: November 2 – 30 from 9:30pm to 12am.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS has outdone himself again with his work as Time-lapse Specialist on the ABC's four part documentary, First Footprints, recently released to air.

View a short video of the time-lapses here.

And read more about the amazing documentary here.

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Following the great success of his Lake Eyre SALT series of photographs, and multi award winning documentary from 2009, Murray Fredericks' new film Nothing on Earth premieres at the Sydney film festival on 9 June 2013, and on ABC1 on Sunday 23rd of June at 10.25pm.

Set atop a melting glacier in the uninhabitable landscapes of Greenland,director and producer Michael Angus (Salt, Ooldea, The Fight Game)follows Fredericks as he battles the elements in his quest for original and breathtaking imagery. 

Murray finds himself alone in a landscape he's never been, hoping this time he hasn't taken his quest too far.

The photographic results of Fredericks' Greenland project will be showing at ARC ONE from the 5th of November 2013. 

See the preview of Nothing on Earth here.

See ABC1's review/article of Nothing on Earth here.

See Dylan Rainforth's review of Nothing on Earth for Art Guide Australia here.

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Murray Fredericks, SALT 199.

Murray Fredericks, SALT 199.

MURRAY FREDERICKS in GEOMORPHOMETRIES: CONTEMPORARY TERRAIN: QCP.

Don't miss Murray Fredericks in Geomorphometries: contemporary terrain exhibition at QCP in Brisbane which ends this Sunday 25th November, 2012.

Check out the review in le Journal de la Photographie by Alison Stieven-Taylor here.

Geomorphometries: Contemporary Terrains 

Queensland Centre for Photography 

Cnr. Cordelia & Russell Sts 

South Brisbane 
Until 25 November, 2012.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting a select group of works from his SALT project at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of Fotofreo from 17 Mar - 15 Apr, 2012.  He will also be giving exhibition tours of his exhibition.  For details and bookings click here.

As part of Fotofreo, MURRAY will also be available for portfolio reviews on Tuesday, March 20, at the Fremantle Arts Centre. The Reviews will be conducted between the hours of 10.00 am and 12:30 pm.

MURRAY will also be on a panel discussing The Landscape in Australian Photography Today, with Alasdair Foster (moderator) and Gael Newton at the Theatrette at the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle from Saturday, 17th March from 2.00 - 4.00 pm.

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Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with his work Hector 12.

Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012.

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Another article on MURRAY FREDERICKS SALT project has been written for The Wall Street Journal.  

To read the article by Rebecca Thurlow, please click here.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS will be holding an exhibition of his SALT works at the Australian Centre for Photography from Friday 14 October to Saturday 19 November.

Conveying ‘essence’ over ‘place’, Murray Fredericks’s Salt series is breath-taking and awe-inspiring. Eight years in the making and comprising of sixteen separate trips, sometimes lasting up to five weeks at a time, Fredericks camped solo in the centre of Lake Eyre photographing a ‘landscape without landscape’.

Concentrating solely on colour and space, Fredericks’ work is at times reminiscent of JMW Turner as well as the colour-field painting of Rothko and celebrates the glory found in nature. Currently awash with water and wildlife, Salt depicts the lake at its most still, most meditative, most transcendental.

Also on show will be SALT, the 2009 multi award-winning documentary of the Salt project by Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks.

Murray will also be giving an artist talk at the Australian Centre for Photography from 11am -12noon on Saturday 15 October.  This is an exciting opportunity to hear Murray talk about his highly acclaimed SALT project series in an informal situation. 

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MURRAY FREDERICKS has been shortlisted for the 60TH Blake Prize with his work Hector 9. The exhibition runs from 16th September - 15 October and is held at the National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney. Announcements are made on September 15.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS will be presenting a seminar STRADDLING TWO WORLDS - CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

The seminar will take place at the National Art School, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Sunday, 15 May, 11am, for $95.

This is part of HEAD ON SEMINAR, a series of presentations, workshops, ideas and networking by Australian and international photographers, photo-journalists, editors and producers. 

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MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting SALT 304 at PARIS PHOTO, the world's leading Photography Fair at the prestigious Louvre in Paris.  Paris Photo is an annual photography exhibition which showcases artists from over 100 galleries and publishers from November 18th to November 21st, 2010.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS / PAT BRASSINGTON

Two of MURRAY FREDERICKS' SALT works are included in the Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The SALT documentary will be screened on Thursday 21st and Saturday 23rd October at 2pm at the Theatre, Ground Level, NGV Australia. Cost: Free

PAT BRASSINGTON is included in Contemporary Encounters at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the NGV Collection and presents a survey of recent acquisitions by contemporary Australian artists.

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Salt, a documentary film by Michael Angus and MURRAY FREDERICKS will be screened on Tuesday 23rd March, 10.05 pm on ABC1 and Sunday 28th March, 6.30 pm on ABC2. 

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MURRAY FREDERICKS' SALT documentary has won the Grand Prix of Short Documentary Films Competition - Golden Frog award and the IDA (International Documentary Association) Best Documentary Short in Los Angeles.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS' SALT, in collaboration with Michael Angus and the ABC, has been nominated for an AFI Award for best Documentary Under an Hour.

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Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS, his documentary Salt won the Best Documentary Award* at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at SILVERDOCS/AFI Discovery Festival. Salt is in the finals of the Australian Documentary Prize as part of the Sydney Film Festival. Salt is also featured as part of the Silverdocs American Film Institute and will be screened in Washington, Moscow, Montreal and Melbourne. For information on Salt the documentary you can click here.