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THOUGH ChillOut came and went last week, more than a decade of festival activities are on display at Hepburn Springs until next month.<\/p>\n

In a new solo exhibition at Radius Art Gallery, local photographer Peter Sparkman is displaying 15 years’ worth of the event’s history.<\/p>\n

“A lot of it is from the carnival day on the Sunday which is the most fun I’ve ever had in a place in Victoria outside Melbourne,” he said.<\/p>\n

“About 16,500 people go most carnival days and it’s really fun, really friendly and family, and very, very colourful.<\/p>\n

“It’s called ChillOut festival so people will just be relaxed. With carnival day, I’ll take candid photos of people laughing and dancing. It’s nice to capture the positive like that.”<\/p>\n

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The exhibition was launched last week and saw about 100 people with many visiting from Ballarat and Melbourne, as well as ChillOut attendees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The exhibition features nearly 30 black and white photos in A0 sizing as well as a slideshow of 343 works.<\/p>\n

Many of the slideshow photos featured in Sparkman’s first solo exhibition, Humans of Ballaarat show as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale last year.<\/p>\n

He said the show’s black and white composition lent a different aesthetic than expected for the subject matter presented.<\/p>\n

“There’s a degree of power that colour detracts from,” he said. “With ChillOut being such a colourful festival, you could easily overdose on rainbows.<\/p>\n

“When you remove the colour, it takes the image into a different realm and I enjoy the way it changes that. It suggests a lot more to something than how it appears.”<\/p>\n

The gallery is open Thursdays to Saturdays from 10am to 4pm, and the exhibition will run until Saturday, April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THOUGH ChillOut came and went last week, more than a decade of festival activities are on display at Hepburn Springs until next month. In a new solo exhibition at Radius Art Gallery, local photographer Peter Sparkman is displaying 15 years’ worth of the event’s history. “A lot of it is from the carnival day on […]<\/p>\n

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