Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf will be open 1pm-4pm on 24 December and 10am-5pm on 27-28 December. The Gallery is CLOSED 25-26 December and 29 December - 1 January 2026. Normal opening hours resume on 2 January.
Alexander James, Cumulus 1 north-east gale
Cloud is an old word in the English language, a word originally related to "clod". Cloud once meant a mass of rock or a hill. So in a sense to talk about cloud is to talk about airborne rocks, of mountains hanging in the sky. In an age of carbon cycles this meaning takes on a whole new truth. Rocks are literally clouds slowed down.
In this series of photographic works, Alexander James explores these themes, relative speeds and densities and convertibility of processes into objects. A re-working of Romanticism's discovery of atmosphere for our own climatically troubled times.
This work represents the cloud component.