Blender Gallery is proud to present a collection of new works by Photographers Sally Bierman, Natasha Milne and Ceramic Artist Ishta Wilson.

Sally Bierman’s series is a collection of photographs revealing the divine flavor of Self.
As a photographic artist, Bierman has worked, studied and exhibited internationally. From this grounding, she has embarked on a compilation of verse and image. Bierman’s project reflects her passion and commitment to an ever-evolving spirituality through nature.
Via landscapes across various continents, light and shade represent the dichotomy of earth and spirit that lies at the heart of her work.
The nude figure is the focal point of Bierman’s photographs using herself as the subject. These photographs seemingly are self portraits. However the philosophy behind these images gives the naked form a universality that represents our quintessential connection with nature.
Photography instigates a continuous exploration of her connection with the earth; Pressed to explore organic nature; matter, water and spirit.
The photographs are shot on a 4x5 large format field camera with slow exposure lending the work a painterly richness of texture and detail. The aphorism, throughout the work supports the images. Part spiritual affirmation, part collage of mythical imagery these emotive images evoke the Natural within our Humanity.
Bierman’s work continues along the same theme as her previous body of work “Sophia’s Dream” shown at Blender Gallery in 2002 in which beauty and freedom were expressed through poetry and image. This exhibition will be her third exhibition at Blender Gallery after showing another series in 2004.
She has exhibited extensively in New York and has been selected to participate in high profile photographic events such as Head On – the Alternative Portrait Prize and Reportage.

After 15 years as a photographer in New York, Natasha Milne has recently returned to Australia.
Blender Gallery is pleased to present her first exhibition in Sydney.
Natasha Milne is fascinated by the natural world and the cycle of life and death.
In this series of "botanicals" Milne has taken found plants and looks to capture the moment when they begin to die and drop their seedlings.
Using a simple oxidized metal surface and her 4x5 camera, Milne gives a sense of honour to those botanicals who must die inorder for new life to begin again.
Natasha Milne has worked for many editorial clients, including Martha Stewart Living, Murdoch books and Canon USA, as well as an assignment to Mali, West Africa for the United Nations.
Her fine art work has been auctioned at Sotheby’s and sold to collectors.
Milne’s work has been shown at various exhibitions including The Gramercy Art Fair, Chicago Art Fair, and the Art of Photography show in New York.
Her photographs hang permanently in the hallways and reception areas of several American and South Pacific hotels.

Drawing on experiences from her own life, Ishta Wilson’s art practice is the place where feelings, imaginings, explorations, sensations, stories, the real and beyond real, come together, interact and unfold.
In her creative process, clay acts like a tactile canvas. Wilson uses it as a drawing surface, drawing medium and sculptural material. The firing processes used are a variety of low-fire sawdust and pit or black firing techniques.
These types of firings are very immediate, transformative processes which leave a lot to chance, the fire having the final influence on how the work materialises.
The mystery contained in these techniques, the unseen magic that occurs in the darkness of the sealed kiln, is what excites Wilson about this process and what she feels captures something of the unknown and ungraspable.
For even to Wilson, the artist, when the work comes out of the kiln it is changed, transported to a new context and new meaning, it has a story all of its own.
Through her arts practice Ishta Wilson seeks to empower the sensate realm and the world of the unseen, the unexplainable and unknown. Experiences that mark and change her, yet remain beyond her articulation, only residing as subtleties of the sensate body.
For more information on Ishta Wilson please visit www.blackashceramic.com