A COMPREHENSIVE collection of artist and Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi’s work is set to open at Warwick Art Gallery this week.
The gallery is pleased to bring to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition Mark Tedeschi: Shooting Around Corners to the Southern Downs.
The exhibition is a comprehensive collection of Mark Tedeschi’s photographs and represents 25 years of his photographic practice.
Warwick Gallery director Karina Devine said during this period he has been a prolific photographer and has won numerous prizes and awards which are a testament to his dedication to the art of photography.
She said this dedication is matched only by his commitment to the other side of his life as Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales where he is well known for prosecuting some of the most significant criminal trials in the state.
Many of his images are enigmatic, humorous and deep with subtle meaning, requiring the viewer to engage with them to fully appreciate them.
Karina said his special ability is to move across cultural boundaries and engage with people from a wide variety of milieu.
The photographs in this exhibition are a selection from his many series and include images ranging from insightful portraits of prominent Australian artists, his compassionate view of the Aboriginal urban communities of Redfern in the 1980s, intriguing domestic interiors to images from the streets of Italy, China and New York and Australian Outback characters.
Karina said Tedeschi had also capitalised on his unique position as both artist and Crown Prosecutor in which he reveals a rare insight into the cloistered world of the justice system and the personalities who work within it.
This unparalleled access has resulted in the photographs of barristers and judges, revealing themselves to him and then to us, still in their robes but doing ‘their own thing’ – pursuing their hobbies, pastimes and private passions.
Mark Tedeschi: Shooting Around Corners will be on exhibition at the Warwick Art Gallery from 2 June to 3 July and will be opened by Gudkovs Power Settgast solicitor Bonnie O’Brien at a special Sunday brunch on 5 June at 10.30am.
Everyone is welcome to attend the free opening.
Information and book with the gallery on (07) 4661 0434.
