Brian, Michael and I have just hung an exhibition for a project we’ve been working on this year.

A collection of images captured over 6 months of intermittent visits to the last site of the CMI Horsham Foundry after its closure in 2012. The Foundry had operated continuously for 140 years on various sites, under different banners before its rapid shutdown last year.  We’ve tried to capture the artefacts and spaces, projecting both the hard and dirty nature of working in the foundry as well as the rapid decay of a building quickly abandoned after the business shutdown.  The work was created using a mixture of medium and large format cameras ranging from Hasselblad Super Wide 6x6cm to 8x10inch Sinar Large Format on Kodak Film. To create the metal prints, dye sublimation inks are heat infused into a specially coated aluminium base, a fitting tribute to the process they record.

Currently showing at the Tasma  Gallery – 6 Parliament Place, East Melbourne, 3002 – Victoria.

9am to 5pm Weekdays. Download the program here.

– James