Onespace invites you to view Naomi Mckenzie’s online exhibition, Where We Meet from the 3rd to the 28th of June, 2024. This exhibition features several of Naomi’s black and white photographs of ‘poignant reflections on childhood, parenting, and sense of place—where pictorial potential is alive in everything’. Naomi was the winner of the Emerging Artist Award in the Flying Arts Alliance Regional Arts Awards for 2023.
Essay writer, Julia Scott-Green states, “Backyard sprinkler, rock-pools, biting sun, sprouting pineapple top. There’s a literary quality to Naomi McKenzie’s work. Exercising the same perceptual salience as that found in a Tim Winton novel, she weaves the interpersonal with the weathered, prehistoric beauty of the Australian landscape. Her eye is cultivated and alert to temporal wonders.
Refreshingly free from contemporary visual trends and steeped in photographic history, when I first saw McKenzie’s work, I found the stars of twentieth-century photography winking back at me—the sensuality of Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham’s still lifes; the familial intimacy of Sally Mann; the shadow play in Olive Cotton’s photography; the smart composition of Toni Schneiders—all wrapped up in an antipodean sensibility.”
