Image: Eric Algra Hopetoun, 2016 photo, 40 x 26.7cm.

ARTISTS: Gary Sauer-Thompson (SA), Gilbert Roe (SA), Eric Algra (Vic), Lars Heldmann (SA), Stuart Murdoch (Vic)

Opening: Sunday 8 December

1-2pm: Artists Talk + music by Don Morrison

2-4pm: Opening with guest speaker Melinda Rankin, Director FABRIK Arts & Heritage, Lobethal

Mallee Routes is an ongoing, collective project that explores the South Australian and Victorian Mallee landscapes. Five photo-based artists look at the ways in which photography offers insights into the ways that we perceive and understand the Mallee’s history and culture – in our current global era where photos have become fast moving bits of circulating data.

Mallee Routes presents works that are rooted in the realist and topographical tradition. In travelling the highways of modernity, the photographers pull up and look to the side, gaze at the ordinariness of space, and draw attention to the neglected, the detritus and the idea of the unseen. The project also has a historical perspective that connects with the idea of mythic landscapes.

Image: Gilbert Roe, Rosenhoe, Kyalite, NSW, 2018, photo, 28 x 28 (image), 48.3 x 32.9cm (paper).

Gary Sauer-Thomson Tree + Field, Murray Mallee, 2018, scanned negative, photographic inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, A1.

Lars Heldmann coked up marry darling: ancient murray cod country (detail), 2018-19, UV-inkjet print on acrylic, salt crystals, dimensions variable (installation), 240 x 135cm (image).

Image: Stuart Murdoch Arumpo Road, NSW 1996, inch inkjet print from a scanned negative, 20 x 24in.