Watercolours, Australie, 2008
Autio’s vibrant images of Australians at leisure have won her impressive national and international acclaim. In 2006 her works shown with Stills Gallery, Sydney, pushed the expressive capabilities of photography. The figures in her underwater tableaux, despite being ordinary people enjoying a swim at the beach, seem almost posed for dramatic effect, as if on a stage. The play of colour and light in the photographs gives them a magic and painterly quality.
Watercolours, her solo show with Stills Gallery in 2004, is the result of a two-year journey across the continent. They elegantly captured the complexity, beauty and drama of Australians’ relationship with the water. A selection from Watercolours was shown at Art Cologne 2005.
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