ANT(ARCTIC)A
by
Stephen Eastaugh and Carolina Furque

‘ANT(ARCTIC)A’ features two separate bodies of Polar photographic work - one from the Arctic and the other from Antarctica.

Exotic images were captured from both Polar Regions where it seems unknown and unfamiliar to many people. ‘ANT(ARCTIC)A’ displays a series of both the far north and the far south of this planet. The exhibition hopes to inform, entertain or perhaps even mystify the viewers.

Series of Aurora Australis photographic works were created over the winter while Stephen Eastaugh was selected as the first Australian contemporary artist to work in the most southern studio in the world and joined numerous field trips across Mac Robertson Land in East Antarctica. Polar lights were observed over the bitterly cold darkness of an Antarctic winter when the auroras were at its most spectacular. Eastaugh went through a great length of journey to capture gargantuan green Auroras and it's eerie spell.

Carolina Furque, on the other hand, took her photograph in Greenland where population is low, nature is rude and has unpredictable weather. Loneliness and isolation are very much part of this landscape. Furque spent one month in North West Greenland where series of black and white photographs depicting the harshness of this remote place were taken. Furque's photographs were shot with Russian Holga camera using black and white medium. This basic technique captured the ruthless climate that is authentically stunning.