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In 1985 Quirk was a founding photographer of Wildlight Photo Agency, with Oliver Strewe, Carolyn Johns, Grenville Turner with agency manager Christina De Water, at 165 Hastings Parade, [[Bondi Beach]], which subsequently moved to Suite 14, 16 Charles St., [[Redfern, New South Wales|Redfern]]). Others joined them, including Annette Cruger, Rachel Knepher, Sue Brown and photographers Mark Lang |
In 1985 Quirk was a founding photographer of Wildlight Photo Agency, with Oliver Strewe, Carolyn Johns, Grenville Turner with agency manager Christina De Water, at 165 Hastings Parade, [[Bondi Beach]], which subsequently moved to 87 Gloucester Street, [[The Rocks, New South Wales|The Rocks]], then finally to Suite 14, 16 Charles St., [[Redfern, New South Wales|Redfern]]). Others joined them, including Annette Cruger, Rachel Knepher, Sue Brown and photographers Mark Lang, Peter Solness, Jonathan Chester, Ben Bohane, Milton Wordley, Tom Keating, Andrew Rankin, Jason Busch, Phillip Gostelow, Greg Hard, Lorrie Graham, Mark Lang and Frances Andrijich. Visitors to the offices included [[David Moore (photographer)|David Moore]] and [[Arnold Newman]]. Advertising itself as "the place for Real Australia in Pictures", the group soon developed prominence in the international magazine and book markets, and from 1990–2003 Quirk was Wildlight's managing director. As part of the group’s activities over 1997 - 2001 he managed and published ''Australian Faces & Places Diary'', a B/W [[Duotone|duo-tone]] showcase of Australian reportage & documentary photography.<ref>'Mono Log,' in ''The Age'', Saturday 06 Dec 1997, p.289</ref> The Agency's, and Quirk’s, photographs were published widely in books, newspapers<ref>''The Age'', Saturday, March 30, 1985</ref> and magazines<ref name=":0">Yvette Steinhauer, 'Click go the shutters,' in ''The Age Good Weekend''22 Jul 1988, p.84–90</ref> including ''[[The Sunday Times Magazine]]'', ''[[The Observer|The Observer Magazine]]'' (UK), ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'', ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', ''[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'' and [[National Geographic]], and also on Australian postage stamps and first-day issues. |
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== Artist == |
== Artist == |
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Revision as of 06:52, 13 February 2020
Philip Quirk is an Australian photographer and educationist, known for his specialist imagery of landscape, geographic and documentary photography, and as a founding member of the Wildlight agency.
Education
Philip Quirk was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1948. While assisting Melbourne fashion photographer Bruno Benini from 1970–1974, he enrolled in 1973 at Prahran College of Advanced Education where he studied photography under Gordon De L’Isle, Athol Shmith and Paul Cox.
Career
On graduation, Quirk worked for Southern Cross Newspaper Group and was a lecturer at Gordon Institute of Technology (now Deakin University) before moving to Sydney in 1976 to start a freelance photojournalism practice. There, he also taught part-time at Sydney College of the Arts and later was a foundation lecturer at the Australian Centre for Photography.
Quirk’s photographs are published widely in books, and magazines including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine (UK), Stern, Der Spiegel, GEO, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic.
Wildlight
In 1985 Quirk was a founding photographer of Wildlight Photo Agency, with Oliver Strewe, Carolyn Johns, Grenville Turner with agency manager Christina De Water, at 165 Hastings Parade, Bondi Beach, which subsequently moved to 87 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, then finally to Suite 14, 16 Charles St., Redfern). Others joined them, including Annette Cruger, Rachel Knepher, Sue Brown and photographers Mark Lang, Peter Solness, Jonathan Chester, Ben Bohane, Milton Wordley, Tom Keating, Andrew Rankin, Jason Busch, Phillip Gostelow, Greg Hard, Lorrie Graham, Mark Lang and Frances Andrijich. Visitors to the offices included David Moore and Arnold Newman. Advertising itself as "the place for Real Australia in Pictures", the group soon developed prominence in the international magazine and book markets, and from 1990–2003 Quirk was Wildlight's managing director. As part of the group’s activities over 1997 - 2001 he managed and published Australian Faces & Places Diary, a B/W duo-tone showcase of Australian reportage & documentary photography.[1] The Agency's, and Quirk’s, photographs were published widely in books, newspapers[2] and magazines[3] including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine (UK), Stern, Der Spiegel, GEO, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic, and also on Australian postage stamps and first-day issues.
Artist
Quirk has exhibited his landscape work continuously since 1972 and is represented by Josef Lebovic Gallery in Kensington. His work is secured for national public collections.
Reception
Critic Anne Latrielle in The Age[4] praised his representations of Australian flora in a show at The Lighthouse Gallery, Prahran;
"Philip Quirk shows the city-dweller stunning aspects of the Australian landscape, from the pastoral calm of river redgums on the Murray River at Barmah to the brooding stillness of alpine forms under snow. Despite two decades of degradation the remaining scenic resources of our country are awe-inspiring. No one interested in our native flora should miss this show."
In her summation of the year 1989 in photography, Beatrice Faust singled out Quirk’s wilderness imagery in that exhibition as “exquisitely coloured and [using] natural light in a uniquely creative way.”[5] and earlier elaborated;
"Light is the key to Quirk’s fascination. The true subject of his work is not just the furnishings of the landscape but the space and light that gives it life. He uses delicate bounce light from snow to bring out the extraordinarily subtle colours in rocks that most of us would see as black, or catches the horizontal light of sunrise and sunset to bring out the colour latent in grass and foliage."[6]
Quirk's imagery often contains wry visual commentary on Australian lifestyles, especially its beach culture.[7][8]
Recent career
At the end of 2003, after eighteen years, Quirk stood down as managing director of Wildlight Photo Agency and is presently living in Sydney and archiving its output. Since his retirement from the Agency, Quirk has undertaken a series of speaking engagements including the 2003 David Moore Lecture and the 2004 Walkley Forum, as well as gallery floor talks and presentations to Media Arts students.
In 2005 Quirk was commissioned by the NSW Farmers Association to make a series of portraits of farming families and their working life in 13 regions of New South Wales. He followed that with a project during the continuing drought in 2006 in Hay, , to produce a broader series which documented the landscape, arable farming, and the natural environment with portraits to illustrate the subjects’ relationships with the land, accompanied with text recording their concerns over drought and environmental degradation caused by reduced water flows in the two major river systems in the district.
Photographic Educator
Amidst his professional work, Quirk continued his teaching activities and was Chairman for Australia and NZ of the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 1998 - 2013. The event was held in the Netherlands annually and each year 12 photographers under 31 years of age from around the world are selected to attend. The objective of this competitive award is to advance their professional development. Australian recipients of this award in 2010 included Trent Parke, Jesse Marlow and Adam Ferguson.
Quirk has won industry awards and government grants for his projects which have included a commission from the organisation 'Beyond Empathy' which uses arts intervention to address the deficits experienced by disadvantaged individuals and communities. For them, over 2006/7 Quirk taught and work-shopped photographic portraiture in two communities in New South Wales at Moree and Armidale to young mothers, many of them teenagers, and to male teenagers who were often in trouble with the law. He also made portraits of individuals in the groups.
In advancing his own education, during 2009-2011 Quirk undertook a Master's Degree by Research, COFA, University of New South Wales.
Industry representative
Quirk has been active in representing his industry, and was spokesperson for the Society of Advertising, Commercial and Magazine Photographers (ACMP) on copyright issues (1998 - 2004); Chairman of Judges, ACMP Photographer Collection Melbourne in 2000; and judge for the Nikon Walkley Foundation Photographic Awards in 2008.
Lecturer in Photography
- Gordon Institute of Technology (now Deakin University)
- Sydney College of the Arts – part-time lecturer
- Australian Centre for Photography – foundation lecturer
- University of Tasmania Art School - guest lecturer
- Charles Sturt University NSW - guest lecturer
- Short course lecturer COFA University of NSW
Authored books
- Oxford Street Profile, Book 1 a hand-made accordion folded (edition of 15) 2011
- Farm Life on the Land Reed Books 1997
- Wildlight Images of Australia Reed Books 1995
- Wildlight Sydney Hardie Grant Melbourne 2000
- Wildlight Across the Top Hardie Grant Melbourne 2000
- Australian Faces and Places Diary, 1997 – 2001, Wildlight/Diamond Press
- The Eisteddfods of Australia & Wales, hand-made (edition of 1) 1982
Contributor to books
- A Day in the Life of Australia, DITLA Sydney
- A Day in the Life of New Zealand, JM McGregor NZ
- A Day in the Life of California, Collins Publishers Inc USA
- The Great Australian Annual, Kevin Weldon & Associates
- The Great Australian Wine Book, Reed Books
- The Writers Landscape – Wilderness, Simon & Schuster Australia
- The Writers Landscape – Settlement, Simon & Schuster Australia
- A Salute to Singapore, The Times Singapore
- The Racing Game, JMC Melbourne
- Australia Take a Bow, Angus & Robertson[3]
- Travellers’ Guide to Aboriginal Australia, Angus & Robertson
- Surprising Lands Down Under, National Geographic USA
- Faces of Australia, Australia Post - Hardie Grant Melbourne
- Sydney – World Class Jewel, Towery Inc USA
- One Digital Day, Times Books/Random House USA
- Wine Atlas of Australia & New Zealand, Harper Collins
- Book of the Road & Australian Places, Readers Digest
- Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Allen & Unwin
- Wool -The Australian Story, Fremantle Arts Centre Press
- Brett Whiteley Studio, NSW Art Gallery
Newspapers & Magazines
Australia
The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Good Weekend, The Bulletin, Australian Geographic, GEO Australia, Outdoor Australia, The Australian Way (Qantas in-flight magazine), Time, Who? Weekly.
International
The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, Stern, Der Spiegel, GEO, Saison, Holiday & Bunte (Germany), Forbes, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Wine Spectator, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler (USA), Emphasis Magazines (HK)
Collections
- Australian National Gallery
- Art Gallery of New South Wales[9]
- Parliament House Gallery Canberra ACT
- National Library of Australia
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- Queensland Art Gallery
- Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery
- Artbank Sydney
- Albury Regional Art Gallery
- Horsham Regional Art Gallery
- Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne
Exhibitions
Solo
- 2011 Oxford Street Profile, Barometer Gallery Paddington
- 1997 Farm Life on the Land, George Gallery Melbourne
- 1997 Farm Life on the Land, Byron Mapp Gallery Sydney
- 1997, May 28–June 15: Philip Quirk, The Photographers' Gallery, South Yarra.
- 1992 The People and the Paddocks, Touring N.S.W.
- 1991 The People and the Paddocks, Touring W.A.
- 1990 The People and the Paddocks, Touring VIC. & Settimana, Italy
- 1989 The People and the Paddocks, Westpac Gallery Melbourne
- 1989 Stumbling in the Dark, Lighthouse Gallery Melbourne & Sogestsu Art Centre Japan[10][11]
- 1989 And The Rains Came, 1982-1984 Touring Indonesia Dept of Foreign Affairs
- 1988 Stumbling in the Dark, Macquarie Galleries Sydney
- 1988 And the Rains Came, Touring NSW, VIC & QLD Regional Galleries
- 1986 Works by Philip Quirk, Intaglio, Prahran<The Age, Friday 30 May 1986, p.37</ref>
- 1983 Black & White Photographs, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
- 1983 Black & White Photographs, The Developed Image, Adelaide
- 1983 Black & White Photographs, Orange Regional Art Gallery NSW
Group
- 2011 Photographic Panoramas, Josef Lebovic Gallery
- 2010 Head Off! Landscapes of Australia, Head On Photo Festival Sydney
- 2010 Candid Camera Australian Photography 50s-70s, Art Gallery of S.A.
- 2010 Creating the Look, Benini & Fashion Photography Powerhouse Museum
- 2010 Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne
- 2010 Earth, Flower and Water, Centennial Park Sydney
- 2009 Australian Photography 1858-2009, Josef Lebovic Gallery
- 2008 Industrial Photography, Josef Lebovic Gallery
- 2006 Making Hay, Shear Outback Museum Hay and Span Gallery
- 2005 Australian Landscape & Cityscape, Josef Lebovic Gallery
- 2005 Focus, Danks Street Galleries
- 2005 Face to Face, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery
- 2004 Australian Post-war Photo-documentary, Art Gallery of NSW
- 2004 Australian Photography 1928 – 2004 Josef Lebovic Gallery
- 2000 Fine Photography Collectors List No 85, Josef Lebovic Gallery
- 1995 On the Edge, San Diego Museum of Art USA
- 1994 Critics’ Choice, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1994 We are Family, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1991 Contemporary Colour Photographs, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1988 Shades of Light, Bicentennial Exhibition ANG Canberra
- 1988 CSR Collection, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1988 The Lady Fairfax Memorial Award, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1988 Portraiture made in Australia, Images Gallery
- 1983 The Lady Fairfax Memorial Award, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1983 Australian Wilderness Photography, NSW University
- 1983 Australian Street Photography the '70s, ANG Canberra
- 1982 The Lady Fairfax Memorial Award, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1982 Colour Photography, Newcastle City Gallery NSW
- 1982 On the Beach, Wollongong City Gallery NSW
- 1982 Heatwave, Australian Centre for Photography
- 1981 Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of NSW
- 1975-81 Phillip Morris Trust Collection, Touring Australia
- 1975-76 Erwin Art Gallery, Melbourne University
- 1974 Aspects of Australian Photography, Inaugural Exhibition ACP[12]
- 1973 Student Exhibition, Kodak Gallery Melbourne
- 1972 Ilford Age of Aquarius, finalist, Melbourne
Representations in compilations of photography
- 2012 Australian Photography Magazine, profile
- 2011 Greeting card series from the Art Gallery of NSW Collection
- 2010 Australian Photography 1950s–1970s booklet Art Gallery of S.A.
- 2009 Australian Photography 1858-2009 Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue
- 2008 Industrial Photography Josef Lebovic Gallery Catalogue
- 2007 Photography Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection
- 2003 At Home in Australia National Gallery of Australia Thames & Hudson
- 2001 The ACMP Photographers Collection , ACMP
- 2001–1997 Australian Faces and Places Diary documentary photographs
- 1995 One the Edge San Diego Museum of Art
- 1994 Commercial Photography Magazine
- 1990 Postcard Collection Wildlight
- 1988 Shades of Light ANG Collins
- 1988 Picturing Australia - A History of Photography Angus & Robertson
- 1987 Window to Australia Deakin University Press
- 1983 Australian Photography Yearbook Thomas Nelson
- 1982 Postcards Colour Cosbook
- 1982 The Eisteddfods B&W hand made book by Geoffrey Major
- 1981 Three Years On Acquisitions 1978-81 Art Gallery of NSW
- 1980 Photographic World Magazine Article
- 1979 Australian Photographers The Phillip Morris Collection ANG
- 1978 Light Vision Magazine Melbourne
- 1975 New Photography Australia ACP Sydney
- 1974 Aspects of Australian Photography ACP Sydney
Grants/Scholarships
- 2009 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship COFA University of NSW
- 1997–2001 Diamond Press & Australian Paper for Aust’n F & P Diary
- 1988 AWB Ltd for The People & the Paddocks
- 1984 CSR Ltd for The CSR Project Art Gallery of NSW
- 1980 Visual Arts Board Australia Council for The Eisteddfods
References
- ^ 'Mono Log,' in The Age, Saturday 06 Dec 1997, p.289
- ^ The Age, Saturday, March 30, 1985
- ^ a b Yvette Steinhauer, 'Click go the shutters,' in The Age Good Weekend22 Jul 1988, p.84–90
- ^ Anne Latrielle, ’Cuttings’, 20 Jun 1989, p.24
- ^ Beatrice Faust, ‘A year of sapphires and garlic,’ in The Age, Friday, Jan 5, 1990 p.10
- ^ Beatrice Faust, ‘Quirk gets national heritage in focus,’ in The Age, Monday Jun 26, 1989, p.14
- ^ Booth, Douglas (2001), Australian beach cultures : the history of sun, sand, and surf, Frank Cass, ISBN 978-0-7146-5167-5
- ^ Hungerford, B. (2013). Easy rider: Wesley Stacey's' The road'and the American tradition. Photofile, (93), 48.
- ^ Art Gallery of New South Wales; Annear, Judy (2007), Photography : Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, ISBN 978-1-74174-006-6
- ^ The Age, Tuesday, June 13, 1989, p.14
- ^ 'Forest Quirks,' in The Age, 01 Jul 1989, p.325
- ^ Gouriotis, K., & Quilty, A. (2013). 'A defining moment': Graham Howe in conversation. Photofile, (93), p.94