Criss-crossing the world with stops on almost every continent, San Francisco-based photographer Beth Moon spent the last 14 years seeking out some of the largest, rarest, and oldest trees on Earth to capture with her camera. Moon develops her exhibition prints with a platinum/palladium process, an extremely labor-intensive and rare practice resulting in prints with tremendous tonal range that are durable enough to rival the longitivity of her subjects, potentially lasting thousands of years. Moon’s collected work of 60 duotone prints were recently published in a new book titled Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time
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Presented by Dr Phillip Greenway, Senior Lecturer (Psychology) Monash University
Date: Thursday 19 February at 6pm
Where: Cunningham Dax Collection
Cost: Free
Why psychologists asked people to draw houses trees and people: psychodynamic insights into the unconscious.
This talk will examine the insights psychologists tried to draw from art works by psychiatric patients and the theoretical grounds on which they based their interpretations. These insights are then used to gain insights into the drawings in the exhibition. Not all of the early work was in vain, some still survives and contemporary psychologists are beginning to look again at the possibility of learning about personality from projective tests, using drawings, pictures and everyday objects.
Dr. Philip Greenway graduated with a degree in psychology from Edinburgh University, Scotland where he was taught by Boris Semeonoff, an expert in projective tests, such as the Rorschach Inkblot Test and other tests requiring participants to draw or response to ambiguous figure. He then studied for a doctorate at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He taught at Aberdeen University, and came to Monash University in 1977, where he now teaches psychological assessment and counselling strategies.
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