Sally McInerney
Cloud road, 2004
Sally McInerney
Joe Dresser’s truck at Spring Forest, 2003
Sally McInerney
Knipsel’s Hardware, Petersham, Sydney, 2007
Sally McInerney
Shadow self, 2008
Sally McInerney
Water Blossoms, Gunning, 2004
Sally McInerney
Still life at Spring Forest, 2004
Fairground Ride c1937/2008
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 22.7 x 20.6cm.
From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott.
Dead Sunflowers 1984/2008
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 19.5 x 19cm.
Image taken at “Spring Forest”, the property near Koorawatha, SW, where Cotton and her family lived from 1951. From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis’ two books: Olive Cotton, Photographer, NLA, 1995, p53, and Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p58. Held in the National Gallery of Australia collection.
Shasta Daisies 1937/2000
Silver gelatine photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 21.6 x 15.4cm.
From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis, Olive Cotton, Photographer, NLA, 1995, p58. Held in the National Gallery of Australia and National Library of Australia collections.
Skeleton Leaf 1964/2008
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 21.4 x 17cm.
From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis, Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p46. Held in the National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of New South Wales collections.
Only To Taste The Warmth, The Light, The Wind c1939/2000 (head portrait of woman)
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned 13/90 in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 19.6 x 17.8cm.
From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis, Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p64. Held in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.
Seed Head 1990/2001
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 20.2 x 17.7cm.
From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis’ two books: Olive Cotton, Photographer, NLA, 1995, p51, and Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p59.
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Olive Cotton & Sally McInerney
Mother & Daughter: A Conversation
13-24 May 2014
Curated by Sandy Edwards of Arthere
Damien Minton Gallery
583 Elizabeth Street, Redfern, Sydney
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Olive Cotton’s confident sense of design and balance was expressed across a wide range of subject types. Her images are on show in conjunction with works by her daughter, Sally McInerney. As you’ll see, McInerney is a superb photographer in her own right and it’s interesting to see the echos of her mother’s aesthetic sensibilities showing up in some of the images.
‘Strong, delicate, aesthetically beautiful and engaging photographs – this will be a memorable exhibition.’ Sandy Edwards, Curator 2014
Teacup Ballet 1935/2000
Silver gelatine photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 25.4 x 19.6cm.
This image was shown in the London Salon of Photography exhibition of 1935. The teacups depicted were purchased by Cotton at Woolworth’s for the use of studio guests. From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis, Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p24. Held in the National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of New South Wales collections.
Considered to be Cotton’s iconic image.
Media Release
This is a historic exhibition of two notable Australian women photographers – Olive Cotton and Sally McInerney, mother and daughter – exhibiting together for the very first time.
This special selection of photographic works reveal the intimate interplay of the loves and believes of these two very special photographers – exploring influences, conversations, shared aesthetics and country places loved by both women.
Olive Cotton married renowned Australian photographer Max Dupain in 1939, having been great friends from childhood. Olive ran the Dupain Studio in Sydney during the early war years, receiving her own photographic commissions and enjoying a high profile for a woman photographer at that time. Olive and Max separated after two years of marriage and Olive then remarried Ross McInerney, moving from the city to the farm Ross managed at Koorawatha, just outside Cowra.
This is the landscape Sally and her brother Peter then grew up in. Although Sally moved back to the city as a young woman, she would often visit her parents on the farm near Cowra. Nature features strongly in Sally’s images, as they do in her mother’s. As Curator Sandy Edwards says of Sally’s work, Sally ‘has a gift for finding the country in the city’.
Sally McInerney was the winner of Sydney Life in 2012; winner of the Head On Photo Prise in 2006; and winner at age 16 of the Sydney Morning Herald High School Prize for best black and white print. She has been photographing since the age of eight when a great-aunt gave her the gift of a Box Brownie camera.
Sally McInerney is an established and highly accomplished exhibiting photographic artist with seven solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions and publications to her credit.
The Photographer’s Shadow c1935/1999
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 16.4 x 15.2cm.
The image shows Olive’s shadow superimposed over Max Dupain. From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott.
Sally McInerney
Carousel, 2010
Sally McInerney
Streaky plates, Koorawatha, 2003
Fashion Shot, Cronulla Sandhill’s c1937/2002
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 15.2 x 22.7cm.
Shows Max Dupain photographing model Noreen Hallard. From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott. Illustrated in Ennis’ two books: Olive Cotton, Photographer, NLA, 1995, p28, and Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p61. Held in the National Gallery of Australia and National Library of Australia collections.
Bright Cloud 1939/2008
Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by Cotton’s agent Josef Lebovic and signed in pencil by Cotton’s daughter Sally McInerney in authentication stamps verso, 21 x 20.3cm.
From an authorised edition of 90, commenced in 1999 and printed by photographer Roger Scott.
Sally McInerney
Local scene, Spring Forest, 2011
Sally McInerney
Squash in a Wheelbarrow, Spring Forest, 2002
To view more work of Sally McInerney visit www.sallymcinerney.com
Olive Cotton is represented by Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Cassandra French, Pop-Up Publicity
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