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by Gordon Undy
Gordon Undy is a fine art photographer working from his studio in Sydney, Australia.
He took a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours at the University of Queensland and worked in and around the computer industry until 1991 when he was able to commit to photography full time on his own terms.
His passion is to interpret the intimate Australian landscape through photographs made in silver-gelatin, platinum/palladium and printing out paper. Field work is done in a variety of format sizes from 35mm to the 8x10 field camera.
Undy favours an approach which honours the unique qualities of the photographic medium in recording and representing the nuances of light with a high degree of fidelity. His photographs explore the ideas of direct acceptance of the landscape, increasingly uncovering the inherent order in seeming chaos and delighting in the fractal nature of things.
He studied landscape photography with Paul Caponigro and fine printing with George Tice who also introduced him to the craft of platinum/palladium in 1994. His photographs are held in private, public and corporate collections in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the USA. He is represented by
| point light gallery | Sydney, Australia |
| 62 Robertson | Brisbane, Australia |
| 80 Gold Street | Melbourne, Australia |
| June Bateman Gallery | New York, NY |
Solo exhibitions
| 1994 | A place in time | Imagery Gallery, Brisbane |
| Beyond Namadgi | Solander Gallery, Canberra | |
| 1997 | Rich earth, clear skies | point light, Glebe |
| Platinum portfolios | point light, Glebe | |
| 2001 | Departures | point light, Surry Hills |
| 2002 | Lines, written in Australia | 62 Robertson, Brisbane |
| Lines, written in Australia | point light, Surry Hills | |
| 2003 | Lines, written in Australia | 80 Gold Street, Melbourne |
Selected group exhibitions
| 1996 | Five Australian photographers | point light, Glebe |
| 1998 | Connections : Bruno Leti/monotypes; Undy/platinum prints | point light, Glebe |
| 1999 | The Voice of the Print | point light, Glebe |
| Group exhibitions in association with a series of seminars | Sotheby's Gallery, Sydney | |
| Trees | point light, Glebe | |
| 2000 | The Australian landscape | point light, Surry Hills |
| Water | point light, Surry Hills | |
| 2001 | A sense of place, joint exhibition with Brett Leigh Dicks | 62 Robertson, Brisbane |
| 2002 | Beyond the Blue, with Bruce Crowther & Bob Kersey | point light, Surry Hills |
| Sydney or the Bush | newcontemporaries gallery, Sydney | |
| The Print Exposed : from Daguerreotype to Cibachrome | 80 Gold Street, Melbourne | |
| 2003 | Me Nam: Rivers, curated by AID/WATCH | NSW Parliament House, Sydney |
| The Print Exposed | 80 Gold Street, Melbourne | |
| Summer Stock | point light, Surry Hills |
Portfolios
| 1994 | Fraser Island | 12 silver gelatin photographs | |
| Interviews | 12 4"x5" platinum/palladium photographs | edition 12 | |
| 1995 | Granite Gorge | 12 8"x10" platinum/palladium photographs | edition 36 |
| 1998 | Connections | 14 6"x5" platinum/palladium photographs | edition 6 |
| 2000 | Chillagoe | 8 silver-gelatin photographs | |
| 2002 | Lines | 40 photographs (16 s/g, 8 pt/pd, 16 POP) | edition 25 |