Zorica Purlija
Zorica Purlija
Zorica, who is a fine art photographer, reached out to us recently to let us know about an exhibition that she is having that starts Saturday week. (We love it when people reach out, so please do!)
We were very happy to let people know about the exhibition but we were also curious about Zorica’s story.
“We moved to Bondi 16 years ago from Edgecliff as my husband loves to surf. It is his soul food and so we tried to find a place to buy and were lucky to find a small semi.
My second son Gene found friends at the skatepark and found a great community there, and I just enjoyed the fresh air from the beach and listening to the many foreign accents floating through the streets of Bondi. My mum comes visiting from Newcastle every three weeks and so we have a routine of having coffee at Gertrude & Alice or at Oh’Brian, and in the early evening enjoying Happy hour at Roy's. The French Patisserie down the road from us provides delicious pastries and bread, what more could you want.”
How do you spend the first hour of your day?
“Two cups of plunger coffee, radio playing 2SER and scrolling through my phone.”
Is there one thing you’d like people to know about you?
“Photography is my passion.”
Please tell us something about your work and the upcoming show.
“My practice is inspired by my maternal lineage and mother-daughter relationships. My photographic practice nurtures the poetic possibility of human attachments. Often exploring the nuances of vulnerability, my works are an intuitive expression of how we forge connection and care.
My latest body of work , The Fall, focuses on connection to landscape, exploring the subtle clash of feeling in crashing water and the scrubby bushland of the northern coastal area; Killen Falls, or Tintenbarn in the Indigenous Bundjalung language, meaning ‘high in the sky’ , and Minyon Falls, that is home to the Widjabul peoples of the Bundjalung Nation.
I build visceral surface texture through glitch and superimposition, at once an intervention of traditional landscape photography and an encounter with the multiplicity of sensation.
I have experimented with printing onto metal and fabric for this exhibition.”
The Exhibition is open from 18 October until 11 November, Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm. at Stanley Street Gallery Darlinghurst.
