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urban tide community of Port Phillip
RonEden
represented by Gallery 461
Homosapien speaks to Mr. Sun
photo print 2005, 70cm x 100cm
Ron has lived and worked in Port Melbourne for the past 4 years and was previously a
resident of St Kilda for over ten years. He has had a long and distinguished career in the
multimedia industry as a photographer, writer and director, but still considers himself an
emerging artist as his work is always in state of evolvement and he is constantly exploring
new horizons. In his early career, Ron was involved in the Melbourne music scene opening
the Thumpin Tum Discotheque in 1965. He has worked as a freelance multimedia
communications consultant for the corporate sector and multimedia artist/photo-iconographer
including three stints working on projects in New York City. Currently he is working on the
DISTANT EARLY WARNINGS multimedia project. These images are photographic
interpretations of the impact of global warming and climate change on Planet Earth if the
process continues unabated.
artiststatement
The Distant Early Warnings images have been transformed by exposure to some of the same
chemical forces that are transforming our global environment. They are thought provoking
and stimulate debate regarding their beauty as well as their symbolism of environmental
chaos. As such, they represent a microcosm of the impacts of global warming.
Many of the transparencies are in a very delicate condition, so delicate in fact that they would
not survive the rigour of duplicating, so each one has been digitally cleaned, scanned and
painstakingly enhanced.