Produced during a recent residency in China, Remnants continues Chawner’s ongoing exploration of the nature of identity and its expression through landscape and place.
Allan Chawner has the soul of a photographer: he is rarely without a camera — at work, travelling, and on social occasions. He has the ability to capture the strange, mundane and beautiful in equal part. In Remnants, Allan Chawner has successfully portrayed both the beauty and the underbelly of modern China. He engages our curiosity, sympathy and optimism for this emerging world power.
Image above: Allan Chawner, Remnants: Place, 2010. Digital photographs on rice paper, silk and paper scroll, timber rods
Image below: Allan Chawner, Remnants: Sculptures [detail] 2010. 30 scrolls: each series 10 scrolls, each scroll, 183 x 66cm, digital photographs on rice paper silk and paper scroll, timber rods
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