Join us for the Opening event at ANCA Gallery Wednesday 30 October at 5.30pm

Poetry of Place is a collection of photographic works which reveal a rare way of seeing, offering an intimate distillation of beauty in the built landscape.

Printed mostly in rich black and white, the images are unique studies of the built form which reveal a tenderness and sensuality not often seen in architectural imagery. By working slowly, in a focused way, the artist observes and represents the temporally changing and ephemeral plays of light and shadow. This focus enables Julia to develop intimate knowledge of the spaces which, with her patience and curiosity, reveal themselves rather than being simply ‘captured’.

Through the work the viewer is invited to pause and ‘see’ differently. The images are at once representations of space and form, as much as they are art objects in and of themselves.  

‘Julia Charles has an unerring artistic eye. She convincingly translates sculptural weight and power within a two dimensional medium. Julia’s pictures are somehow unafraid, deftly stepping toward feeling, shadow and beauty”. Camilla Block, Durbach Block Jaggers architects

JuliaCharles, Untitled #21, 2016, inkjet on archival cotton rag, 135 x 95cm

‘I seek to make images which find a poetic quality, a different way of seeing. I work slowly and alone. Across days and seasons, light changes. I delight in dappled, filtered, reflected and diffused light creating moments of joy. Patience brings reward.’ Julia Charles