Lucky moments captured in ATMOS

COUNTLESS early mornings spent walking around Lake Wendouree have paid off for Tim Gresham.

The result, ATMOS: A photographic exhibition by Tim Gresham, is currently showing in The Old Butchers Shop Gallery in Soldiers Hill.

Gresham’s art practice is primarily as a tapestry weaver, but he’s always had a strong interest in photography and here he has applied that appreciation to capturing those inimitable dawn moments.

“It’s really just being in the right place at the right time. Most of it is luck,” said Gresham who shoots with a Leica M10 digital camera, generally with either a 50 milimetre or a 28 milimetre lens.

Influenced by minimalism, modernist art and design, Gresham’s tapestries and his photographic work run parallel, often resulting in combined exhibitions.

This show is a rarity being exclusively photographs and also his first time exhibiting colour photos.

Since moving to Ballarat from Melbourne in 2017 Gresham has developed an enjoyable habit of taking early morning walks around Lake Wendouree, starting in the dark, catching the first light – “as long as the weather is not too bad.”

For the last couple of years he’s often taken a camera along to record the atmosphere of the city’s aquatic centrepiece.

The photographs in ATMOS explore the colours and forms in the sky and how they interact with the water, and Gresham has carefully curated them to capture subtle gradations.

ATMOS is showing at The Old Butchers Shop Gallery through to Sunday 28 September with the gallery open Saturday to Sunday 12pm to 4pm, and weekdays by appointment.