Avondale lecturer uses gallery exhibition to develop new work
Photographs an Avondale lecturer developed as an artist in residence feature in a new exhibition at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.
After Your Collection succeeds Your Collection: the extended version, which saw Aaron Bellette and three other Hunter-based artists work for six weeks alongside selected works from the collection within the gallery.
Using digital and medium format film, Bellette distorts and layers photographs to present his interpretation of time and space. With techniques such as double exposure, natural density filters and intentional camera movement, much of Bellette’s artistry is in camera.
Bellette’s dyslexia influences his work—the peripheral visual field is a focus and a recurring technique of overlaying images represents the blurred cognitive reality of the dyslexic photographer. A lecturer in photomedia in the Discipline of Humanities and Creative Arts at Avondale College of Higher Education, Bellette hopes the photographs inspire his students to “develop a photographic eye that moves from taking images to making images that convey messages, ideas and emotions.”
Bellette is now creating and curating, with Associate Professor Mark Roxburgh from the School of Design Communication and IT at The University of Newcastle, work for an exhibition examining abstraction in photography. He is also completing a Doctor of Philosophy on the development of photographic visual learning in blended and online learning environments.
After Your Collection ends on August 30.
Read Aaron Bellette’s mini-masterclass in travel photography on Avondale’s travel blog YtravelAuthor
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