Extraordinary Experiences with Morganna Magee

 

Extraordinary Experiences with Morganna Magee

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, June 14th, at 7 pm EDT

Morganna Magee’s photography practice sits between storytelling and expanded documentary where emotionally poignant moments become personal meditations on the beauty of melancholy.

In her book Extraordinary Experiences, Morganna explores the supersensory phenomenon that arises during bereavement where grief and loss are made tangible as emotions, memories, and dreams that she embeds in her photographs.

Robin Titchner said of Morganna’s book, “as we pick our way along Magee’s pathway through the book, an air of melancholy hangs thickly over the proceedings. Landscapes are rendered mystical, ethereal in their representation. Blurs and flares - distractions and imperfections - each made beautiful, necessary even, an integral component of the dialogue. Every step provides reminders of mortality and the inevitability of life's cycle from birth to death and beyond."

Together we will explore the myriad ways that photography can take us to the mystical, primal, and sublime edges of everyday existence while simultaneously granting us solace and acceptance of our own mortality.

 

Morganna Magee is a based in  Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the  Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations,  the foothills of the Dandenong ranges. Her practice sits between storytelling and expanded documentary, creating  work that pulls from an emotional response to the world whilst still being based in the documentary tradition.   Her work has been awarded and exhibited  both nationally and internationally recognised by institutions such as  The British Journal of Photography, The National Portrait gallery Australia and Miami Art week.  She is part of Tall Poppy Press with Matt Dunne. She regularly is commissioned for editorial and large-scale community arts projects.

Her images have appeared in The New York Times,  The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Age,  Art and Australia magazine amongst others

She has photographed major commissions for The New York Times Magazine,  Wintringham Specialist aged care, The shire of Murrundindi, Victoria Police, the Mission for Seafarers, Ronald McDonald House and The Immerse Arts Festival among others. Morganna is the Major Discipline Co-ordinator for Photo Media, Swinburne University of Technology.

 

Morganna Magee

Morganna Magee

 

Morganna Magee

Morganna Magee

Morganna Magee

Morganna Magee

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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