Architecture of dreams connects the work of 2 Australian photographers to challenge
popular stereotypes of the Australian landscape.
Using very different technique and subject matter but the same forensic eye.
Michael Williams and Robert Ashton photograph both the built and natural environment
in a meditation on our sometimes uneasy alliance with the world around us
Robert Ashton’s richly printed Black & White photos are taken walking
between the forest and the southern ocean
He searches for the marks we make and the evidence we find in the natural landscape
to reveal the ritualistic ambiguity of the common place.
Michael William’s large format colour panoramas cast a critical eye on the landscape we
construct.
He explores urban environments in a state of flux, often the initial stages of development
when elements are exposed in a moment of dreamlike grace before being concealed
inside the suburban dream.