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Finlandisation Juha Tolonen: Artist’s Talk Art Gallery of WA September 2, 2016

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Finlandisation is a series of landscape photographs that focus on the seemingly disparate landscapes of the Swan River hinterland and Lapland. While contrasts exist, Juha Tolonen’s new work also displays a surprising continuity.

Drawing from his adopted and ancestral homes of Australia and Finland his photographs reveal lands that are both alien and familiar.

Arranged in diptychs and triptychs, multiple viewpoints are used to contrast or to expand a scene. Tolonen never quite settles on an iconic view, but instead surveys the land inviting us to seek out recognisable elements through content, composition and arrangement.

Home is, after all, a place where we are surrounded by the familiar. But, due to forces both internal and external our picture of home is never quite complete. It’s this shifting view of what and where we call home that runs across Juha’s work.

JUHA TOLONEN: ABOUT THE ARTIST

Juha Tolonen (b. 1968, Geraldton, Australia) is a photographer, lecturer, researcher and writer. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at Edith Cowan University in Australia.

His work has been exhibited in major photography galleries around Australia including Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. His work has been exhibited internationally in the China Pingyao International Photography Festival. In 2012 he was awarded the biannual City of Perth Architectural Commission. In 2015 he was a Visiting Researcher at Aalto University in Helsinki, in the Department of Art.

His work has been published in leading photography journals including Photofile. He is the co-author of Photography and Landscape published by Intellect Books.

He currently lives and works in Lapland, Finland.

Register for artist’s talk here: http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/wa-focus-juha-tolonen.asp#talk

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