"Bogey Hole" - Digital photography series by Bernadette Smith

"Coal Country" - Mixed media installation by Damian Castaldi

LOOP SPACE OPENING: Anzac Day, 25th April, 5:30 to 8 pm

109 Hunter St, Newcastle

"Salute to Steel City”
Single channel Video installation by Helen Macallan and Andrew Plain. A tribute to Newcastle and its steel-workers, the film aims to capture the ambiguities in the community's relationship to the steelworks, both its spectacular nocturnal magic and its drab, even deadly, daily reality.

"Bogey Hole"
By Bernadette Smith. "Whoosh!", "Fluid Trace" and "Last Wave" are from a series of digital photographs investigating the fluid dynamics of still and moving water in collision at the Bogey Hole in Newcastle. The refractions of light and traces of water particles moving quickly as the aftermath of a wave then having its motion dispersed and responsive to the formerly almost still water contained in the rock pool is recorded as a digital trace of light in the form of pixels.


"Coal Country"

A mixed media installation by Damian Castaldi. Predicts the effects of climate change on the Australian East coast landscape and from an aerial perspective the sky above. The viewer flies over and listens to six locations from the peninsula at Newcastle East, the vineyards at Wollombi, the inlet at the Hawkesbury River, the bay at Pretty Beach, Damian’s early childhood place at Avalon and his last inner city residence in Newtown. Each of the 6 panels are accompanied by a 10 minute soundscape created from location recordings and soon to include local oral history from one of the oldest residence of each. The four and a half minute excerpt above is of Newcastle East.