Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land.

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Title

Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land.

Venues

Museum of Contemporary Art [Sydney]. (4 June 2009 – 23 August 2009)

Date

(2009)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia. Photographs

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Ricky Maynard is a documentary photographer based on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait, which seperates Tasmania and mainland Australia. Portrait of a distant land is a selection of 60 images from six series of photographs created over the last two decades. The series are The Moonbird People (1985-88), No More Than What You See (1993), Urban Diary (1997), In The Footsteps Of Others (2003), Returning To Places That Name Us (2000) and Portrait of a Distant Land (2005– ).

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04 Jul 2012