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2021
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Location
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, AustraliaDate
09.02 –26.02.2021Photography
Gina DiggleSubheadline
Solo exhibition by Travis MacDonald at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 10th - 27th, 2021.Text
A fountain.
A magnolia tree on a street.
A rose bush on a lawn.
A cat sitting on top of a stack of chairs.
A girl looking at a photograph of a cowboy.
A static blur of a guy on my street who wears a mushroom shaped beanie in front of a nightclub queue. There is a Michael Jackson impersonator busking nearby.
Two friends walking into flats in the rain, yellow light.
A blanket being dried over a wall.
The highpoint shopping centre food court fountain by sculpture Deborah Helpurn titled ‘family’, people dining.
The interior of a car parked outside a large apartment frontage with a woman about to hop in. There are friends walking in the background. A snail.
Tyre tracks on a grassy, weedy knoll.
A moonrise, a signal and a campfire.
A person giving thumbs-up towards a reflective skyscraper.
An isometric aerial view of people shaking hands through an open door.
A car blowing smoke towards a couple dancing and smoking cigarettes in front of a large building. A cairn.
A section of a sign on a building that says ‘world’, at night.
The sign in Palmerston nth that says 24/7.
A snail moving four times.
A German shepherd catching a ball of rubber bands.
A floodplain bridge, a flood.
An abandoned community project - a geodesic dome, with horses.
A couple on a couch, but you can only see his arms. His watch is reflecting the window.
Smoke blowing towards me from a distance at night.
Smoke blowing towards me from a distance in the morning, an overpass.
A young woman in a suit playing with string.
A child and a man at a zoo looking at a crocodile.
A man in the foyer of an apartment building carrying a Christmas tree, an evil looking child sitting on the stairs.
A fireplace, a Beswick ceramic.
A young male train passenger asleep on a samsonite, a leg.
A mound of earth and its reflection in water.
A recliner and a sitter.
A tree and it’s reflection in a building.
A painting of my studio with cymbal sculptures.
A fallen tree on a road in a forest.
A window sill, and rain.
Hair oil stain on a wingback chair,
A clock reflecting a light.
An airport lounge window, a plane and ibis.
Guitar lines, tropical trees and a moonrise (romantic painting).
A corner with the weed, and the weed removed.
Coat hooks.
An aeron chair at a desk with picture frames.
A guy walking up steps in a white shirt holding a dry cleaned white shirt.
A castle renovation.
The disappearing thumb trick.
Estimating the width of something with your hands.
A lectern.
The tyre tracks, but through tree branches.
Hi hats, ride, china, splash, chrashride cymbals and stands dancing.
An infant's game in a waiting room.
A fountain.
A woman making a figure out of rocks.
Signs, notices and a tower. A sun peeking around the corner.
Wet blue concrete reflecting inside of a car, Sill.
A freezer slowly envelopes a Nanas pie.
Chemist sign in the hills.
The man who didn’t see the spider web wore pinstripes.
A wild boar in a tent.
A camouflaged hoodie, a fence, a tree, a sleeper and a fountain.
A sunset thats looks like an information symbol.
A Madonna a child and a station wagon.
A lamp reflecting in windows.
The home made cart of my Aunty.
A wagon wheel in a halfpipe.
Braid/smoke.
The edge of the continent is a beach.
Rentbook.
A roll of turf (but like Manet).
Maddi and the heater.
A green card table and a chair.
The leather jacket over the chair, doubled.
The town square has friends carrying an empty shopping trolly, getting buzz cuts and riding bikes.
An electric drum kit and a lay-z-boy.
A grand piano and ceramic bears.
A telephone stand.
A pair of face-off flared pants walking in the rain, the bottoms soaked, tattered and dirty.
A giant bronze leg.
A new housing development (just the roofs).
A cairn.
A stone wall and an orange sky.
A young me practicing guitar, but an action figure sized guitar teacher wrapped around neck playing Joe Satriani.
Door Beads and outside.
Birthday cards (9 - 30).
Spider-Man kid and a horse.
Sewing up a hole in my pocket.
Rock dog walks past a child care centre.
Doc marten leg tries in vain to squash glassware into a suitcase.
A bureau de change, a building of flags, a man working.
A Le snack.
An orchid in a plastic container.
A cemetery beneath a vaportrail.
A house on a truck.
A hole and a ladder.
A breeze brick and a city church.
A fountain.
Travis MacDonald