Ben Apfelbaum

ART EXPRESS 2023 @ ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Zoe Capel – The Usurpation
Will Hotten – Rezoned
Tess McKenzie – Field Of My Subconscious
Sophia Ristancevski – Bare
Rose Antico – Dear Customers Short Supply
Rebekah Ju Eun Lee – Books Buildings & A Biography Of Things
Isabella Molinari – Lost In Lockdown
Ethan Birrell – Little Boxes On The Hillside
Angel Zhang – Ego
Asiya Abboud – A Romantic Summer Getaway

 

According to the Visual Arts HSC syllabus students were required to keep a visual arts process diary. During the Preliminary and HSC Visual Arts courses. It was expected that there would be some connection between what was in the diary and what was produced as an artwork.

Students could use their diaries to formulate ideas and their intentions for what they could do in art making and the diary was able to possibly indicate a student’s research within the creative process. It could also be used to prompt technical interests and risk-taking, beliefs and interpretations, and allow for reflection, evaluation and assessment.

ARTEXPRESS 2023 was on display at the Art Gallery of NSW from 2 February to 7 May 2023

Featured image – Angel Zhang – ‘Ego’. Text and photos Ben Apfelbaum

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.