Client: Ballarat International Foto Biennale
Location: Ballarat, Vic
Completed: 2021
Photography: Garth Oriander
Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2017, 2019 & 2021
Convergence has collaborated with and supported the Ballarat International Foto Biennale over 3 biennial cycles.
Our curation and design of the Biennale’s 2021 premier exhibition used the McCartney family’s initial selection of 200 works to focus on Linda McCartney’s photographic career. It was displayed at the Ballarat Art Gallery.
McCartney’s photographs represent the people, places and landscape that surrounded her, using her inimitable, spontaneous and experimental style.
Convergence’s chronological and thematic design for the exhibition focussed on McCartney’s background, life and travels, images of the McCartney family, the 1960s music scene, and a series of prints from the McCartney’s visits to Australia between 1975 and 1993 which have never been shown before.
Convergence was responsible for image selection and arrangement, didactic text, exhibition design, documentation and coordination.
Alongside the Linda McCartney Retrospective, in 2021 Convergence worked with the Biennale on:
The design of outdoor display units which are sufficiently elegant to become a part of the Biennale’s permanent display furniture while robust enough to withstand Ballarat’s notorious winter weather
The exhibition design for Chow and Lin’s Poverty Line project. This project uses the universal lens of food to examine the daily choices we would face living at the poverty line
The design of Rhonda Senbergs’ Time and Place wallpaper, a collage of images from the State Library of Victoria collection, printed for external viewing and located in Police Lane, adjacent to the Ballarat Art Gallery
