Project Description
Julie Millowick: Surrounding
Exhibited at Castlemaine Art Museum
15 February—16 June 2024
Surrounding is a 36 year documentation of the Central Victorian post goldrush environment surrounding the home of Julie Millowick.
Julie’s explorations of her environment use film, pinhole camera, photogram, lumen, cyanotype and digital capture.
The curator, Jenny Long, writes:
Julie Millowick is a localist, an artist who is deeply embedded in the place where she lives. Over many years, Millowick has documented the environmental legacy of gold mining around her home near Fryerstown in Central Victoria. This strangely poignant landscape has been turned upside down through violent extraction—but it remains resilient and in the process of recovery.
Millowick’s photographs show us the devastating effects of mining, drought, flood and invasive plants, but also remind us of the interconnectedness that links all parts of this ecosystem including its human occupants. This is a terrain which the artist loves, and which she sees with acute perception. It is a landscape full of complexity, a region with a terrible past, but in its capacity for renewal is also a place that offers a spark of hope for the future.
Surrounding is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography.
$40
155 pages
210 x 260 mm
Design by Jac DiBlasi
Image editing by Rob Gale
Copyediting by Stephanie Holt
Production by Jessie DiBlasi
Printed in Naarm/Melbourne by Bambra, 2024
First edition 250 copies
ISBN: 978-0-9876064-0-2
Book can be purchased in person from the Castlemaine Art Museum gift shop, 11-4pm Thursday, Friday and 12-4pm Saturday, Sunday
or from Julie@juliemillowick.com
$40 plus postage
Surrounding, Indigenous Plants, Gelatin Silver Photogram, Centre Pages
Surrounding, Cassinia, Lumen Print, Cover
Surrounding, Wildflowers, Lumen Print, Frontispiece
Surrounding, Fragments Goldrush Era Glass, Page 30 31
Surrounding, Sluicing, Golden Gully, Page 38 39
Surrounding, Invasive Cactus, Bronica 6-45 Agfa Film, Page 48 49
Surrounding, Introduced Briar Rose, Lumen Print, Page 54 55
Surrounding, Washing, Page 58 59
Surrounding, Washing, Pinhole Camera, Page 66 67
Surrounding, Patio Phone Tower and Foliage, Lumen Print, 62 63
Surrounding, Wattle from Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park Lumen Prints, Page 74 75
Surrounding, Cherry Ballart, Lumen Print, Page 76 77
Surrounding, Cassinia and Kangaroo Apple, Cyanotypes, Page 81 82
Surrounding, Cherry Ballart, Page 82 83
Surrounding, Cassinia, Lumen Print, Page 90 91
Surrounding, Wattle, Lumen Print, Page 102 103
Surrounding, Hakea, Ecological Thinning, Page 112 113
Surrounding, Drought Crocodile Reservoir [Bowness Award Finalist 2009],
Page 128 129
Surrounding, Landcruiser, Golden Gully Flooded, Page 132 133
Surrounding, Goldie, Horse Paddock, Page 138 139
Surrounding, Post Goldrush Landscape Mist Page 150 151
Surrounding, Dog Shadow and My Son on Ferrons Mullock, Page 154 155