31st August – 31st December
The award-winning film director Mela Hilleard showcases her photographic work in the gift shop at Dimbola Museum & Galleries, home of the great Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, who will be the inspiration for Mela’s next film. The exhibition is located in our gift shop and is free to view.
About the Artist:
Mela was born in Poland and her family was forcibly moved from Lviv, after WW2. She says, “I was raised on longing, for the lost paradise, for the time which does not exist seeking refuge in the world of art, at first theatre and later in photography and filmmaking.
I became interested in breaking conventions, thinking more in terms of poetry, always following my feelings and intuition. I like when things have their own unspoken history, imperfections, reflections, the crumbles of memories and dreams. Being like a collector of eternal appearance; light is beginning and end of everything to me – the inner light of every person, light in the room, light of the past moment, waiting for the light…
I am working now on developing a new project: ‘From life. Following in the footsteps of Julia Margaret Cameron’. Her life becomes a parallel story told through filmmaking and photographic eyes of mine inspired by her, in the 21st century, woven like separate strands of hair into one plait.”
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