STUART RINGHOLT
Landscapes and Factories
25 September – 30 October 2021

STATION | MELBOURNE

Evading classification within a specific time or space, Landscapes and Factories presents a suite of framed monochrome collages that are at once historical, contemporary and dystopian. Stuart Ringholt’s collaged works splice together found images of bodies, faces and scenes that at first glance might not appear out of place, but then reveal themselves to be unnatural conglomerations. Splicing together printed material of built and natural landscapes from an encyclopaedia set, the artist builds imagined narratives that evoke the surreal and uncanny to question the nexus between temporality and subjectivity.

“Landscapes and Factories is an analogue collage series utilising black and white 1950’s print material sourced from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge, an encyclopaedia set. In previous collage projects I was primarily focused on the conflation of specific subject matter such as soft porn and art or war and fashion but in this series the initial interest was in the formal qualities of the offset print. The images in the encyclopaedias contained grainy and high contrast black and white photographic reproductions. The images document relics from ancient history, land and people, transport, weather phenomena, manufacturing and industry, mining and geology and hobbies and pastimes.

The low production values of the photography allowed individual images to migrate, mesh and transform into much larger images in scale. The collage process was surprising as nondescript but agile images partnered with others to slowly build new representations. Often up to a dozen or so images or sections thereof were utilised to create individual collages, usually over the course of a single day. New and alternative images emerged sometimes with surreal overtones: forests grew, distant landscapes conjoined, factory floors opened exposing other landscapes, church halls were mined and planet earth morphed.”

— Stuart Ringholt

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