This engaging exhibition reimagines how we perceive and experience the natural world. In Look Both Ways, acclaimed artist Lesley Duxbury employs a Black Mirror—an 18th-century optical tool once used by artists and travelers—to transform familiar landscapes into striking, contained reflections.

Each photograph centers on the mirror, resting among dried gum leaves or on rocks in flowing water, where it reframes the environment in unexpected ways. Captured from the perspective of an observer looking downward, these images invite a deeper contemplation of place, movement, and time.

Challenging the traditional notion of landscape as a distant vista, Look Both Ways offers an intimate, layered encounter—one shaped by perception and reflective observation. Don’t miss this thought-provoking exploration of how we see and document the natural world.

Lesley Duxbury is a Gippsland-based artist whose work includes photography and printmaking. Her interests are in the atmospherics of landscapes and perceptions of place. She has undertaken extended walks in some of the most remote places on earth, such as Arctic Baffin Island and the Isla Navarino, the furthest south in Tierra del Fuego. Walking is an essential part of information gathering for her research, as is basic photography – a simple camera and iPhone – with which she documents the landscape and its atmosphere.

Look Both Ways
Dates: February 28th – April 6th, 2025
Hours: Friday to Sunday, 10.30 am to 4.00 pm

Events
Artist Talk: In Conversation with Lesley Duxbury
Time: Saturday, March 1st, 1 pm to 2 pm

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