Jared Mcghie Launchpad Exhibition Opening: Visions from the Frozen Frontier

Jared McGhie will be celebrating the opening of his newest Launchpad exhibition Antartica: Visions from the Frozen Frontier. This will be hosted at Belmont Library on Friday June 13th at 5pm. This is an opportunity to meet Jared and find out more about his twelve month residency in Antartica. This is a free event with tea and coffee available - all are welcome.

About Antartica: Visions from the Frozen Frontier

This exhibition chronicles Jared McGhie's unprecedented twelve-month residency on Earth's most isolated continent. Antarctica is revealed through a disciplined photographic lens as a realm of austere majesty - a landscape where conventional perceptions of time, scale, and colour are fundamentally altered.

The collection presents a meticulously documented visual record spanning seasonal transformations, from the stark beauty of winter's perpetual darkness to the summer's ceaseless daylight reflecting across vast ice shelves. Notable subjects include the region's endemic wildlife, ethereal atmospheric phenomena, and the precise geometries of natural ice architecture perfected over millennia.

The photographer's immersion in Antarctica’s extreme environment - where temperatures regularly descend below -35 degree Celsius and human presence remains minimal - afford these images the complex psychological dimensions of existing in a space where humanity remains an ephemeral visitor rather than an inhabitant.

Viewers are granted privileged access to a largely inaccessible terrain - a pristine laboratory of nature where elemental forces continue to shape existence according to primordial rhythms undisturbed by civilization.