changing perspectives 2021
REMNANT
ISBN 978-1-64713-493-8
Tide line should be seen as an environmental statement on which a solve is required to be made from the direction and point in time that humans are now heading.
Remnant is about what is left. Don Hill 2022 Remnant is still a developing story.
The book "Remnant' started with the name "Rainmaker' of which a single edition is held by the National Library of Australia and harks back to the mid 2000's when I had a keen interest in discovering the quirky rainforest of South East Queensland.
Since 2021 the book has progressed into a larger volume of photographic plates of which I have been very selective but is still not complete in that there are sections of interest that have yet to be filled. In the book I have undertaken to put a positive spin on the photographic record it contains. I did this in my previous publish of “Tide Line’ as well which showcased photographic plates from New Zealand and Nudgee Beach as well as works created from the use of micro plastics washed up on our shores.
It also referenced artworks which were created to represent the Pacific Vortex and the Garbage Patch. Overall the publication process contained in Remnant has been ongoing for more than twenty years with the project rekindled after the completion of Tide Line with Australian artist John Dahlsen which took more than three years to complete after the initial concept was discussed and detailed in 2019.
Written Overview of "Remnant'
Don Hill’s environmental depictions in Remnant portray past events captured by his use of many cameras.
Whether these are digital or analogue is not important. They express the moment and the essence of time.
The end result has intent and tries to show an environment that is part of a bigger picture that may have been dominant a very long time ago.
Not every photograph is intended to be perfection but photography becomes a perfect medium for humans to analyze, explore, examine and enjoy.
Some of the plates have a delicate treatment that Constable would use to produce his Oil painted landscapes with a Turner Water colour twist which William used in his daily water colour studies.
Others have been translated to Grayscale to exemplify the Silhouette of the beast of life.
In his time in London, Don would continually visit Turner’s water colours at the National Gallery in London even photographing them with the new Ektachrome low light film to make a transportable record to bring the essence home to Australia.
Hill’s recent photographic depictions are once again spontaneous.
He has nothing to say about this except to look at it at your leisure. "I have only set these out for me.’ “Although by sharing I suppose it may become contagious fulfilment for the author and the viewer.’
Some of his plates have an innocence as well as a Helmut Newton quality even though they relate directly to environmental subjects.
The capture of the present past. They are not necessarily perfect but capture a scene of activity that happened.
“In London I would spend spare time down at Abingdon Street in Kensington at Biba and sit around on the lounges there as this became inspiration to me and my photographic art.”
"There was nothing else like Biba in the whole world then.'
This is Don Hill
Hill’s life has been full of adventure some of which were spare of the moment fixations with the dribble of time and lax reasoning.
Once when he was fifteen with $2.00 in his pocket no equipment and just the clothes on his back he set off to Cairns for no apparent reason except adventure.
“It was about four in the afternoon, cool and sunny and the train trip to Brisbane was about 75 cents’.
“I guess I upset my parents for the umpteenth time but I had to explore and quench”.
“I drank deeply this time.” ‘I discovered things.”
He had an idea that he had to see Australia and he did.
The North was a beautiful tonic and untouched with rainforest growing right to the road edge for miles and miles and miles in those years as there were no kilometers then.
This has been the critique through most of his life although he has almost always been connected to a camera an artists brush or palette knife.
In those times he was not immune from taking charity from friends that he made along the way.
He states: ‘ My Successes and Failures have made me who I am today.’ “It is important for me to impart my knowledge of life to the world before I leave.’
“Whatever people think of my work is irrelevant as the only important thing is what I think of my work.
Some may think his ideas may be erratic and eccentric and having said this Don Hill has met and made many friends, travelled many lands to the ends of the Earth with little or no money in his pocket so who would or could argue with the beauty of the plates that he has created inside this manuscript.
Copyright Don Hill 2022
Don Hill is a passive environmental activist who has been involved in the Australian Art Industry for many years.
Don Hill is an Australian Artist, Writer and Photographer and he does not paint Horses. These are done by another individual of the same name who resides in New Zealand.
Disclaimer: Whilst care has been taken to present correct details and dates the author takes no responsibility for any error or omission.
ISBN 978-1-64713-493-8
Tide line should be seen as an environmental statement on which a solve is required to be made from the direction and point in time that humans are now heading.
Remnant is about what is left. Don Hill 2022 Remnant is still a developing story.
The book "Remnant' started with the name "Rainmaker' of which a single edition is held by the National Library of Australia and harks back to the mid 2000's when I had a keen interest in discovering the quirky rainforest of South East Queensland.
Since 2021 the book has progressed into a larger volume of photographic plates of which I have been very selective but is still not complete in that there are sections of interest that have yet to be filled. In the book I have undertaken to put a positive spin on the photographic record it contains. I did this in my previous publish of “Tide Line’ as well which showcased photographic plates from New Zealand and Nudgee Beach as well as works created from the use of micro plastics washed up on our shores.
It also referenced artworks which were created to represent the Pacific Vortex and the Garbage Patch. Overall the publication process contained in Remnant has been ongoing for more than twenty years with the project rekindled after the completion of Tide Line with Australian artist John Dahlsen which took more than three years to complete after the initial concept was discussed and detailed in 2019.
Written Overview of "Remnant'
Don Hill’s environmental depictions in Remnant portray past events captured by his use of many cameras.
Whether these are digital or analogue is not important. They express the moment and the essence of time.
The end result has intent and tries to show an environment that is part of a bigger picture that may have been dominant a very long time ago.
Not every photograph is intended to be perfection but photography becomes a perfect medium for humans to analyze, explore, examine and enjoy.
Some of the plates have a delicate treatment that Constable would use to produce his Oil painted landscapes with a Turner Water colour twist which William used in his daily water colour studies.
Others have been translated to Grayscale to exemplify the Silhouette of the beast of life.
In his time in London, Don would continually visit Turner’s water colours at the National Gallery in London even photographing them with the new Ektachrome low light film to make a transportable record to bring the essence home to Australia.
Hill’s recent photographic depictions are once again spontaneous.
He has nothing to say about this except to look at it at your leisure. "I have only set these out for me.’ “Although by sharing I suppose it may become contagious fulfilment for the author and the viewer.’
Some of his plates have an innocence as well as a Helmut Newton quality even though they relate directly to environmental subjects.
The capture of the present past. They are not necessarily perfect but capture a scene of activity that happened.
“In London I would spend spare time down at Abingdon Street in Kensington at Biba and sit around on the lounges there as this became inspiration to me and my photographic art.”
"There was nothing else like Biba in the whole world then.'
This is Don Hill
Hill’s life has been full of adventure some of which were spare of the moment fixations with the dribble of time and lax reasoning.
Once when he was fifteen with $2.00 in his pocket no equipment and just the clothes on his back he set off to Cairns for no apparent reason except adventure.
“It was about four in the afternoon, cool and sunny and the train trip to Brisbane was about 75 cents’.
“I guess I upset my parents for the umpteenth time but I had to explore and quench”.
“I drank deeply this time.” ‘I discovered things.”
He had an idea that he had to see Australia and he did.
The North was a beautiful tonic and untouched with rainforest growing right to the road edge for miles and miles and miles in those years as there were no kilometers then.
This has been the critique through most of his life although he has almost always been connected to a camera an artists brush or palette knife.
In those times he was not immune from taking charity from friends that he made along the way.
He states: ‘ My Successes and Failures have made me who I am today.’ “It is important for me to impart my knowledge of life to the world before I leave.’
“Whatever people think of my work is irrelevant as the only important thing is what I think of my work.
Some may think his ideas may be erratic and eccentric and having said this Don Hill has met and made many friends, travelled many lands to the ends of the Earth with little or no money in his pocket so who would or could argue with the beauty of the plates that he has created inside this manuscript.
Copyright Don Hill 2022
Don Hill is an Australian Contemporary Artist and Art Director
Don Hill is a passive environmental activist who has been involved in the Australian Art Industry for many years.
Don Hill is an Australian Artist, Writer and Photographer and he does not paint Horses. These are done by another individual of the same name who resides in New Zealand.
Disclaimer: Whilst care has been taken to present correct details and dates the author takes no responsibility for any error or omission.