What does it mean when something you cannot see, or perhaps you didn’t even know existed, disappears forever? Stephanie Valentin’s current exhibition Closer responds to this enigma, bringing the perpetually overlooked up close into a memorable encounter. Valentin’s new work continues to explore an ongoing interest in the human relationship to the natural world and the ecological effects of climate change. Through her unorthodox use of the electron microscope,…

STEPHANIE VALENTINunseasonal12 October to 12 November 2011 Stephanie Valentin’s new series unseasonal, considers the unsettling of our relationship to weather and its influence, and how changes within the balance of natural systems and climate have permeated our perception and entered our experiences. Many of the images have been created on location in and around the Murray River and its wetlands in eastern South Australia. The site…

earthbound continues Stephanie Valentin's interest in the human imprint on the natural world. To create this series Valentin returned to the area in which she grew up - the semi-arid mallee on the eastern edge of South Australia. Through the interplay of still lives and landscape, Valentin explores our uncertain relationship to the earth's processes. In the ambiguous light between dusk and full moon, her compositions serve as open-ended experiments, raising questions rather than deliveri…