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Award Winning Gallery to launch Summer Exhibition Season

The multi-award winning Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain Chateau will launch its Summer Exhibition Season on Sunday, 29 November. The 2009-10 exhibition season follows the theme of life’s journeys, through the personal odysseys and road trips of developing and professional photographers and conservationists.

The launch coincides with The Wilderness Gallery’s success at last week’s annual Tasmanian Tourism Awards. At the ceremony, the Gallery won the Specialised Tourism Services award and was inducted into the Tasmanian Tourism Awards Hall of Fame for winning this category for the third time.

Over the coming months, The Wilderness Gallery’s ten individual gallery spaces will present the following exhibitions, in addition to the Gallery’s standing collections.

Ian Jeanneret - Susurrations
The continuous whispering of wind and waves on a land in the path of the cold and wild Roaring Forties; Hobart photographer, Ian Jeanneret, presents an exhibition of Tasmanian images exploring the interface between land and sea.

Raoul Slater - Cradle of Light
Raoul Slater is one of Australia’s most acclaimed birders and wildlife photographers. Capturing the most extraordinary natural events in his inimitable style, Raoul shares his unique insights and rare perspectives through this stunning selection of images.

David Sinclair - Feathers Fur & Ice
A series of spectacular nature and wildlife images from the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, South Georgia and Falkland Islands. David Sinclair works as a photographer and guide in the polar regions and has participated in numerous private polar expeditions including a ski crossing of the Greenland Icecap.

Richard White - Places I’ve Been
A collection of photographs from The Canadian Rockies, Death Valley, the Californian Coast, Italy, Scotland and Australia. Richard White has been involved in photography for more than 20 years and operates from his studio and darkroom in the countryside around Mansfield, Victoria. Richard is considered to be one of the finest darkroom Fine Art Black & White printers in the country.

Michael Snedic - Wildlife of Australia, a nature photographer’s journey
Michael is one of Australia's most published nature photographers. Over the last 13 years he has gone to great lengths to photograph wildlife in all types of situations in an attempt to capture the uniqueness of each individual. This collection represents steps along this photographic journey. He continues to work as a professional nature photographer and co-owns Trekabout Photography Workshops.

Bruce and Alistair Paton - Classic Australian Walks
This exhibition includes images from the Overland Track, Australian Alps Walking Track, Grand Hightops and the Thoresborne Trail. Alistair is a sports journalist for the Herald Sun newspaper while his brother, Bruce, conducts sustainability education for the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Join us for The Wilderness Gallery’s Summer Exhibition Launch: Sunday 29 November at 2.00pm. The official opening will be conducted by acclaimed Tasmanian photographer, Richard Bennett.

Tracy Thomas
Gallery Manager
Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery
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