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Louise O'Neil
Bisbane, Australia
Email: louise_oneil@hotmail.com
Website: www.louiseoneil.com

Louise O’Neil is a Brisbane-based artist from Queensland, Australia. Her newest photographic series, ‘Grit’, was photographed at the old Ipswich powerhouse. The irony of this building as a powerhouse is found in its extreme darkness, with the only available light coming from sun fragments though dirt-encrusted windows. The machinery left in the building, lying lifeless amidst the abandoned chaos, stands as silent witnesses of the energy they once possessed. When struck by the outside light, the dust begins to dance around metal and decay as if there are ghosts in the machines. O’Neil’s work seeks to revive these objects and their place, enhancing the ambience and colour to bring the ghosts to life and restore the power the machines and the building once had.

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