Vanishing Point brings together new works by three artists, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Yvette Hamilton and Ellen Dahl. The works are created to reflect upon the dual concepts of light and the island. Each artist explores ideas around the real and the imagined, the political and the personal. The island as the notion of the definitive edge. An unreachable space or idea. Or just a mirage – a trick of the light.

Cavaniglia’s Untitled (infinity) I & II imitate infinity backdrops used in photography. These impossible non-sites suggest imaginary settings and distant horizons, places that exist in our minds but remain out of physical reach.

Acting like deconstructed cameras, Hamilton’s Emergent Occasions are reductive self-portraits utilizing lights, aperture and mirror – drawing parallels between the idea of the self and the illusion inherent in a phantom island.

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. (John Donne 1623). Dahl’s photographic installations reflects on the island to investigate the self and the political. Hard boundaries and fixed limits. Me and you. Us and them. A metaphor for the nation state. But the shoreline is corroding.

Consuelo is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on how we see and understand space. She has exhibited nationally including PICA, 2015, Sarah Cottier Gallery, 55 Sydenham Road, and Perth Centre for Photography in 2014; Firstdraft and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 2013;and Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth, 2012.

Yvette Hamilton is an Australian artist whose interdisciplinary practice charts the evolution of the notions of self, being and presence, as influenced by evolving technological heterotopias. She has exhibited nationally at galleries including Dominik Mersch, Perth Centre for Photography, Carriageworks and Firstdraft. She has been a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, the Fishers Ghost Art Prize, the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize and the Iris Award at the Perth Centre for Photography. She was the winner of the Sydney College of the Arts, Dominik Mersch Gallery Award and has been the recipient of an Australia Council ArtStart grant.

Ellen Dahl a Sydney based, Norwegian born artist working across photography, video, sound and projection. Her practice traces the intersection of memory, identity with a physical, political or psychological sense of place. Ellen has exhibited nationally including North Contemporary Art Space Sydney (2016) National Portrait Gallery Canberra (2004, 2011, 2015), 55 Sydenham Road Marrickville (2015), Wellington St Projects Sydney (2015), Mclemoi Gallery Sydney (2013), Gallery Fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne (2013) and Verge Gallery Sydney (2012).