Lindsay Blamey is a Melbourne-based visual artist, known for his sublime landscape photographic digital prints. Born in rural Victoria, Blamey’s diverse body of work primarily explores themes of rural and urban environments compiled through memories, dreams and experience.
The strange yet familiar worlds depicted in Blamey’s works create narratives with the viewer that stretch far beyond the image edge, staying with you long after exposure. In one image, a stack of shipping containers form a structure reminiscent of a Rubik’s cube, while in another, a pile of scrap metal takes the shape of an imposing mountain. There is surprising detail in every composed landscape, even those which seem to be a conventional landscape painting at first glance. Blamey’s work captivates the viewer with his sprawling wide open vistas of the Australian landscape, and often a small scaled businessman in a black suit stands with his back to the viewer looking into the landscape, furthering the sense of mystery and intrigue.. This intersection between rural and urban is reflective of Lindsay’s personal experiences of growing up in the wide open plains of Australia.
In this way, Lindsay Blamey’s art draws the eye to the unexplored and the implied, inviting the viewer to question reality and challenging us to look at the world through a new lens. His thought-provoking style, developed through photographic and digital processes, creates a unique visual experience.
“I return to liminality as expressed in the landscape – that moment of suspended pause in the transition between two phases – which has become a thematic constant in my photographic practice over the past few years.
These collected works are not mere representations of Australia’s vast rural plains, nor studies of the singular quality of their light and shadow, but rather meditations on the emotional resonance such spaces hold. Evocative of inner experience, the images invite personal and metaphorical reflections on flux and thresholds.
The viewer might recognise something of themselves in the lone recurring figure, seen beneath illuminated gums and an expansive sky, watchful in the wilderness of change. Much like the breathless calm before a rain squall, the compositions are suffused with an anticipatory silence, affirming the quiet beauty of abiding in this liminal pause – however brief, however ambivalent.”
