Broadsheet: Review by Emily Bour
Mossgreen Gallery gives a fresh vantage on a series of images by the late photographer Rennie Ellis, renowned for his candid deptiction of Australian life
This is the Show affirms the title for the upcoming exhibition opening at Mossgreen Gallery this Friday. Drawing on more than 40 years worth of work from the Rennie Ellis photographic archive, the images on show centre around personal identity and that age-old subject of the elusive beauty of the...
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The Age, article by Janice Breen Burns
Topless Turvy Times of Rennie Ellis
HE COULD charm a girl's clothes off but three women who loved maverick Melbourne photographer Rennie Ellis say he was far from a sleaze. ''He could walk into a room and it was just whoosh - off would come the tops!'' fashion designer and friend of Ellis, Jenny Bannister, hoots with laughter...
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The Age
Times a-changin' caught on camera
The 1970s heralded the opening of Australia's first gallery of photography. IN 1972, Australia was a heady place: it was a time of social and political upheaval, of experimentation and transgression, and of newly won freedoms. Women's liberation was on the rise, Germaine Greer's bawdy battle cry...
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The Age
Brummels Exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art
In 1972, maverick ad-man and photographer Rennie Ellis launched Australia’s first dedicated photography gallery, Brummels, on Toorak Road. Some of the works that were shown at Brummels during its eight years of existence, including by Ashton, Jerrems, Talbot, George Gittoes, David Moore,...
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Robert McFarlane, Oz Photo Review
'Brummels Lives! Planetary news, digital silver printing, McCullin's words and Fujifilm's X10
The Spirit of Brummels - and Rennie Ellis - endures. Monash Gallery of Art are mounting a survey of the content and enduring influence of Brummels photography gallery (arguably Australia's first - the Australian Centre for Photography would open a year later, in 1973). Brummels paved the way for...
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Dino Ferrari, Toorak Rd 1976
Rennie Ellis: No Standing Only Dancing
Reviewed by Robert McFarlane Decent exposures from a gentle chronicler of society's excesses. FOR much of his life Rennie Ellis (1940-2003) was seen as a court jester with a camera - turning up at the social arenas of the rich, famous and unknown in Melbourne and Sydney. For 30 years...
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