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May

Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘A light of its own’ 2023

May 2023

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Antonios Schneider
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
Too call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

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Raymond Carver. ‘Late Fragment’ from A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989

This posting offers a selection of photographs from my new 269 image sequence A light of its own (2023). To see the whole extended conversation please visit my website.

The starting point for this series was a black and white image from the Second World War of a German soldier looking at writing that has been scrawled in heavy chalk on the side of an armoured vehicle. ‘Aus der Traum’ translates as ‘From the Dream’.

As the series developed the work, as is its want, took on a life, light of its own. I use the photographs of war and its effects as part hallucinogenic, technicolour dream and part exploration “… not to follow optically the ‘line of ideas’ in the text or in a picture and see only the representation proper, the surface, but to probe with the eyes the pictorial texture and even to enter the texture.”1

Dr Marcus Bunyan

269 images
© Marcus Bunyan
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Martin Jay. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkley: University of California Press, 1993, p. 512.

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Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ print costs $1,000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see the Store web page.

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Tobacco
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'City (destruction)' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
City (destruction)
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Destroyer
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Emanation
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Flick' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Flick
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Goggles' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Goggles
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gun
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Helmet
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Katyusha
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Men
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Prisoner' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Prisoner
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958). 'Aus der Traum' 2023

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Aus der Traum
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Trees
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Water
From the series A light of its own
2023
Digital photograph

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Sep

Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘The sun does not move’ 2017-2022

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September 2022

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Women in orange
London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

This posting offers a selection of photographs from my new ninety-eight image sequence The sun does not move (2017-2022). To see the whole extended conversation please visit my website. The text below illuminates the rationale for the work…

Two students were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind. “It’s the wind that is really moving,” stated the first one. “No, it is the flag that is moving,” contended the second. A Zen master, who happened to be walking by, overheard the debate and interrupted them. “Neither the flag nor the wind is moving,” he said, “It is MIND that moves.”

The photographs in this sequence meditate on the idea that it is the mind of the viewer that constructs the spaces and meanings of these images. It is MIND that moves. The title of this sequence the sun does not move is attributed to Italian polymath Galileo Galilei.

The photographs are not a contemporary dissection of some archaic concept or hidden historical moment. They just are. Why do I make them? Because I feel impelled to be creative, to explore the spiritual in liminal spaces that I find across the earth. Ultimately, I make them for myself, to illuminate the journey that this soul is on.

With wonder and affection and empathy and feeling for the spaces placed before it. As clear as light is for the ‘mind’s eye’.

With thankx to the few “fellow travellers” for their advice and friendship.

Marcus

98 images
© Marcus Bunyan

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“To try to see more and better is not a matter of whim or curiosity or self-indulgence. To see or to perish is the very condition laid upon everything that makes up the universe, by reason of the mysterious gift of existence.”

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Teilhard de Chardin, Seeing 1947

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Brick pattern
London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Sliver
France 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Bus depot
South London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gare du Nord
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Blue/White
London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Tomb effigy
V&A Museum, London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Float
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Scar
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Circle, two white lines, four pieces of white and a trail of dark oil
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Couple in light
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The crossing
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Equilibrium
Tuileries, Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Leaving
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The sun does not move, it’s your mind that moves…
France 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Crystallize
France 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Hand in hand
France 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
We might be otherwise – we might be all
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Every kind of pleasure
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Eiffel Tower II
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Profusion
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Ancient and modern
V&A Museum, London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Two black holes
V&A Museum, London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The Wheel of Time
V&A Museum, London 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Where is the love, beauty, and truth we seek (Shelley)
France 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Modernisation
Montparnasse, Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The light whose smile kindles the universe
Palace of Fontainebleau, France 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The unknown thought I
Paris 2017
From the series The sun does not move 2017-2022
Digital colour photograph

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Nov

New website: Marcus Bunyan – celebrating 30 years of art practice in 2021

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November 2021

Celebration!

Recent work

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2021
From the series Resonance

In 2021, I celebrate 30 years of art practice with the creation of a new website, the first to contain all my bodies of work since 1991 (note: more bodies of work still have to be added between 1996-1999).

My first solo exhibition was in a hair dressing salon in High Street, Prahran, Melbourne in 1991, during my second year of a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art Photography) at RMIT University (formerly Phillip Institute out in Bundoora). Titled Of Magic, Music and Myth it featured black and white medium format photographs of the derelict Regent Theatre and the old Victorian Railway’s Newport Workshops.

The concerns that I had at the time in my art making have remained with me to this day: that is, an investigation into the boundaries between identity, space and environment. Music and “spirit” have always been an abiding influence – the intrinsic music of the world and the spirit of objects, nature, people and the cosmos … in a continuing exploration of spaces and places, using found images and digital and film cameras to record glances, meditations and movement through different environments.

30 years after I started I hope I have learnt a lot about image making … and a lot about myself. I also hope the early bodies of my work are still as valid now as they were when I made them. In the 30 years since I became an artist my concerns have remained constant but as well, my sense of exploration and joy at being creative remains undimmed and an abiding passion.

Now, with ego integrated and the marching of the years I just make art for myself, yes, but the best reason to make art is … for love and for the cosmos. For I believe any energy that we give out to the great beyond is recognised by spirit. Success is fleeting but making art gives energy to creation. We all return to the great beyond, eventually.

Dr Marcus Bunyan

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Each photograph in this posting links to a different body of work on my new website. Please click on the photographs to see the work.

Unknown photographer
Opening of Marcus Bunyan’s exhibition The Naked Man Fears No Pickpockets at The Photographers’ Gallery and Workshop, Melbourne, 1993 showing at left (behind the crowd) the photograph Richmond Steps 1993
1993
Polaroid

Ian Lobb (Australian, b. 1948)
Marcus 31/8/92 Taken by Ian Lobb at Phillip [Institute]
1992
Polaroid

Jeff Whitehead (Australian)
Marcus in his Fred Perry and Doc Martens with his Mamiya RZ67 on tripod with Pelican case on Jeff’s car, Studley Park, Melbourne
1991-1992
Colour photograph

The only photograph of me with my camera 30 years ago!

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2017-2020
From the series Stones, Vaults, Flowers: Père Lachaise

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019-2020
From the series A Day in the Tiergarten

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019
From the series The Night Journey

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019
From the series Oblique

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Parc de Sceaux
2018
From the series Paris in film

War dreams 2007-2017

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2013-2017
From the series The Shape of Dreams

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2015
From the series Too Much of the Air

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2013
From the series upside down

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2011
From the series Vertical

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2011
From the series The Symbolic Order (cartes de visite)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2010
From the series Missing in Action (red kenosis)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2010
From the series Missing in Action (dark kenosis)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2010
From the series Missing in Action (horizontal kenosis)

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2009
From the series There but for the Grace of You Go I

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2009
From the series The Shape of Dreams

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2009
From the series Momentum

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2008
From the series Cut and Thrust

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2007
From the series Drone

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2007
From the series Nebula

Transformations 1996-2008

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2008
From the series Discarded Views

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2008
From the series Last Stand

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2007
From the series Wonders Never Cease

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2007
From the series Unearth

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2006
From the series Aporia

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2005
From the series Photos My Mother Sent Me

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2005
From the series No Man’s Land

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2005
From the series Tokern

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2005
From the series Inurtia

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
VV – 09GI and NV – 17EP during a thunderstorm, Albury
2005
From the series Enclosure

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Bedtime
2004
From the series Neo_mort

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2003
From the series Desideratum

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2002
From the series Last Days at Karngara

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2001
From the series The Wrestlers

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Button 2B
2001
From the series D O < R >

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Plane 6
2001
From the series Throw High and Hard

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2000
From the series Thirdspace

Black and white archive 1991-1997

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, born England 1958) ‘Untitled’ from the series ‘Sleep/Wound’ 1995-96

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Mask IV’ 1995 from the series ‘Mask’ 1995-1996

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Medieval tiles’ 1994 from the series ‘Orphans and small groups’ 1994-1996

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, born England 1958) ‘Padlocks/People’ 1995-96

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Dalmation’ from ‘Dogs, chickens, cattle and cows’ 1994-1995

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Mother, foal’ from the series ‘Horses, sheep’ 1994-95

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) ‘Untitled’ from the series ‘Études’ 1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘The Songs of Eternity’ 1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘The wash house’ from the series ‘Immersion’ 1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Untitled’ from the series ‘Ignudi’ 1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Jerry holding a brush, South Yarra’ 1994 from the series ‘South Yarra and surrounds’ 1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Maman’ 1993 from the series ‘England’ 1993

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Manchester Mardi Gras’ 1993 from the series ‘England’ 1993

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Paul, Windsor and the city’ 1992-94 from the series ‘Circumnavigation’ 1992-1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘The face of man, in the surface of Moon, blinks’ 1992-94 from the series ‘Within’ 1992-1994

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Two male torsos’ 1991 from the series ‘Objects, cars and places’ 1991-1992

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Self-portrait in Punk Jacket’ 1991-1992 from the series ‘Self-portraits and nudes’ 1991-1992

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Andrew in the flat, Punt Road, South Yarra’ 1991 from the series ‘Portraits’ 1991-1992

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Forms IV’ from the ‘At Newport’ series, 1991

Marcus Bunyan. ‘Nocturne’ from ‘The Regent Theatre’ series 1991

Marcus Bunyan black and white archive 1991-1997

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Oct

Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Resonance’ 2021

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October 2021

Resonance noun: the power to bring images, feelings, etc. into the mind of the person reading or listening; the images, etc. produced in this way…

A body of work for 2021. Very proud of this sequence…

Taken in heavy overcast conditions with slight rain after a thunderstorm had passed through on my Mamiya RZ67 medium format film camera, at Eagle’s Nest, Bunurong Marine and Coastal Park, Victoria, Australia.

A period of intense seeing and previsualisation.

No cropping, all full frame photographs. The colours are as the camera saw them.

See the layout of the series on my website.

Dr Marcus Bunyan

48 images
© Marcus Bunyan

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Apr

Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: ‘Orphans and small groups’ 1994-1996 Part 2

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April 2021

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Ma mère
1994
Gelatin silver print

Earlier in my life I believed that identity was always fluid, always in flux. These photographs reflect that belief.

Now as I get older, this belief has changed.

Identity is always steady – at a certain level – and that the old adage to know ones-self is still the greatest challenge. And that this knowledge brings a core that is consistent.

The fluidity of self-knowledge disappears when attention is sharpened.

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Marcus Bunyan 2021

I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991-1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. These photographs were images of my life and imagination at the time of their making, the ideas I was thinking about and the people and things that surrounded me.

All images © Marcus Bunyan. Please click the photographs for a larger version of the image. Please remember these are straight scans of the prints, all full frame, no cropping !

Marcus

*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN*

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a vintage 8″ x 10″ silver gelatin print costs $700 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (Rembrandt thinking)
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The conversation
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (Pope folded)
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (Pope unfolded)
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The Angelus, New R, 1892
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Thy Kingdom Come
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Purity
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Whistler’s mother (looking out to sea)
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Holbein’s Happiness
1996
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (Sweet heart with leaves)
1996
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Windows at 63aa
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Urban abstraction (for Max)
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Between the breath and the silence
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Shame Fraser
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Port Melbourne to Port of Melbourne
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Out back
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (pear on black)
1994
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Pear I
1994
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Pear II
1994
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Abstract I
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Abstract II
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Nude in sunlight
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Abstract III
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Abstract IIII
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Abstract V
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Abstract VI
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Question mark
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Four lines and two trestles
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Four tyres
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (two cracks)
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (plank)
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (creature)
1996
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled (creatures)
1996
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Roundel I
1996
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Roundel II
1996
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Roundel III
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Roundel IIII
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The structure and fabric of existence 1
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Passionfruit²
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The structure and fabric of existence 2
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Williamstown 1
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Williamstown 2
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Williamstown 3
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Case Tractor – 1925 –
1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Fordson Tractor 1922
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Hart Parr
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
John Deere Tractor c. 1925
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Lanz Bulldog Tractor 1930
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
McCormick Deering Tractor c. 1928
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Fighter 1
1994-96
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Fighter 2
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
“Boomerang Way” Tocumwal Wishing Well
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Australian landscape
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
A twist of the mind
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Australian landscape
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Two men and a ute
1994-95
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Plume (X marks the spot)
1995
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Lumbe, Blacksmith, Undertaker
1995
Gelatin silver print

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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: ‘Orphans and small groups’ 1994-1996 Part 1

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February 2021

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Tall Bamboo
1994-1996
Gelatin silver print

All images © Marcus Bunyan. Please click the photographs for a larger version of the image. Please remember these are just straight scans of the prints, all full frame, no cropping !

Marcus

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a vintage 8″ x 10″ silver gelatin print costs $700 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Baby, Oslo
1994-1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Barrows
1994-1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Bellows
1994-1996
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Bonsai
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Bricks and cups
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Cabbage
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Children and flowers

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Children and flowers I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Children and flowers II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Children and flowers III
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Children and flowers IIII
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Corrugations I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Corrugations II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Corrugations III
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Corrugations IIII
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Crazy paving
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Marguerite Daisy I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Marguerite Daisy II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Doll face I
1994-96
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Doll face II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Drainpipe I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Drainpipe II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Face I (William Klein)
1994-96
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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Face II (William Klein)
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gate I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gate II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Chalice I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Chalice II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Chalice III
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Cracked
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Gumnuts
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Hat I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Hat II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Helicopter, flag pole and sun
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
If?
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Jubilee Street, Melbourne
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Kids horse I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Kids horse II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Monster
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Marquetry
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Saint Gregory I
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Saint Gregory II
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Saint Gregory III
1994-96
Gelatin silver print

Melbourne gay pride 1994

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Body painting, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
James Dean, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Banquet table, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Eagle brand, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Pentagram, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Love, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Dragons wing, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Rose Kennedy, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Om, Melbourne gay pride
1994
Gelatin silver print

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Sep

Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: ‘Horses, sheep’, 1994-1995

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Categories: artist website, Australian artist, Australian photography, beauty, black and white photography, existence, gallery website, landscape, light, Melbourne, memory, photographic series, photography, reality, space, time and works on paper
Tags: Australian art, Australian artist, Australian black and white photography, Australian medium format photography, Australian pastoralism, Australian photographer, Australian photography, Australian sheep, Button braids, Marcus Bunyan, Marcus Bunyan artist, Marcus Bunyan black and white archive, Marcus Bunyan black and white photography, Marcus Bunyan Brand, Marcus Bunyan Bridle, Marcus Bunyan Button braids, Marcus Bunyan Diamonds, Marcus Bunyan Foal, Marcus Bunyan Hock Gaskin, Marcus Bunyan Horses sheep, Marcus Bunyan Mother Foal, Marcus Bunyan photographer, Marcus Bunyan Saddle, medium format camera, Melbourne, outback Australia, Royal Melbourne Show

September 2020

The second of two postings of new scans from my black and white negative archive.

The horse photographs were taken at a Royal Melbourne Show one year. The photographs of the sheep were taken in country New South Wales.

Ah, the light!

Dr Marcus Bunyan

All images © Marcus Bunyan. Please click the photographs for a larger version of the image. Please remember these are just straight scans of the prints, all full frame, no cropping !

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a vintage 8″ x 10″ silver gelatin print costs $700 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Mother, Foal
1994-1995
From Horses, sheep
Gelatin silver print
© Marcus Bunyan

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Button braids
1994-1995
From Horses, sheep
Gelatin silver print
© Marcus Bunyan

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Hock, Gaskin
1994-1995
From Horses, sheep
Gelatin silver print
© Marcus Bunyan

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May

Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: ‘Sleep/Wound’, 1995-1996

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Categories: artist website, Australian artist, Australian photography, beauty, black and white photography, existence, intimacy, light, memory, photographic series, photography, portrait, psychological, quotation, reality, space, time and works on paper
Tags: analoguephotography, art, Australia, Australian art, Australian artist, Australian performance art, Australian photographer, Australian photography, blood, chakras, cosmos, cutting, dance party, ethereality, fineartphotography, HIV/AIDS, identity, infrared photography, intimacy, Kundalini, light, love, male body, Mamiya RZ67, Marcus Bunyan, Marcus Bunyan artist, Marcus Bunyan Australian artist, Marcus Bunyan photographer, Marcus Bunyan Sleep/Wound, medium format camera, medium format negatives, medium format photography, Melbourne, performance art, photography, Sleep/Wound, soul, spirit, Tasty nightclub, the body, the body in space and time, the male body

May 2019

*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN*

Marcus Bunyan (Australian born England, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995-1996
From the series Sleep/Wound
Gelatin silver print

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it;
but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect
how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but
eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky,
whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

.
Thoreau, Walden

The series Sleep/Wound appeared in my solo exhibition titled The Cleft in Words, The Words As Flesh, at Stop 22 Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne in 1996.

The series consists of ethereal, intimate photographs of my partner and myself in sleep positions, taken on infra-red film, the only time I ever used such film. I was fascinated (and still am) with the positions of the body in space, and how it moves in different environments.

The second part of the series are photographs of a performance, that of the cutting of my partners back. Paul and I held a dance party at a house on Punt Road in South Yarra where our friend Woody (David J. Wood of Bent Metal fame) was being evicted. The party, naturally enough called Eviction, was held to raise money for HIV/AIDS. Paul and I decorated the house, painting large, colourful kundalini symbols such as snakes and mandalas on the walls. In one room, painted with the seven colours of the main chakras, and to ambient music connected to earth, spirit and cosmos – I cut my partners back. Half the people fled, but the other half recognised the powerful spiritual connection that was happening in the performance (remember at this time, blood in terms of being gay, was tainted because of HIV/AIDS infection). I then smeared Paul’s blood on the walls of the house with my hands, crossing the boundary of the taboo by touching a bodily fluid whist acknowledging something that is essential to human life.

After packing up all the equipment from the party, we both headed to the Tasty nightclub (if any of you remember the Tasty raid) to have a good dance, with the blood still drying on Paul’s back. People were shocked at seeing his cut back. When we got back home at 6am in the morning I took out my trusty Mamiya RZ67 and took these beautiful photographs of one of the most connected, spiritual experiences of my life.

My thankx go to Paul as always for being my muse and partner without whom these experiences and photographs would never have been possible.

Marcus

All images © Marcus Bunyan. Please click the photographs for a larger version of the image. Please remember these are just straight scans of the prints, all full frame, no cropping !

Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a vintage 8″ x 10″ silver gelatin print costs $700 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

Marcus Bunyan (Australian born England, b. 1958)
Untitled
1995-1996
From the series Sleep/Wound
Gelatin silver print

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Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘The Night Journey’ 2019

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July 2019

Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019
From the series The Night Journey
Digital photograph on cotton rag

The Night Journey

The only reason to make art is for yourself… but I hope you enjoy the images and the sequence as much as I enjoyed making it!

The images picture interstitial spaces, un/realities that hover at a median point, a tipping point between the real and the unreal. Which is which is open to question…

Please click on the photographs to see a larger version of the image. They are best viewed on a desktop computer to see the details of the image.

Marcus

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Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019
From the series The Night Journey
Digital photograph on cotton rag

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Mar

Photographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Oblique’ 2019

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Categories: artist website, Australian artist, Australian photography, beauty, colour photography, digital photography, existence, landscape, light, memory, photographic series, photography, psychological, quotation, reality, space, time and works on paper
Tags: a volume of images, a volume of photographs, Australia, Australian art, Australian artist, Australian contemporary photography, Australian photographer, Australian photography, Bangkok, colour photography, concept of the Oblique, digital photographs, digital photography, Goethe, how a body physically experiences space, landscape photographs, landscape photography, Marcus Bunyan, Marcus Bunyan artist, Marcus Bunyan Oblique, Marcus Bunyan Oblique series, Marcus Bunyan photographer, Marcus Bunyan photography, Melbourne, nature, Oblique, Oblique concept, photography about space and time, place, previsualisation, Si Satchanalai, space, spirit, spirituality, Sukothai, Thailand, time, urban photography

March 2019

Marcus Bunyan (Australian born England, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019
From the series Oblique
Digital colour photograph

Here is a body of work shot mainly from moving taxi windows in Bangkok and surrounds, interspersed with still, Zen-like images.

With the moving images, you have to anticipate by a couple of seconds the movement of the taxi and the release of the shutter so you have no idea what the image will actually be. Your sense of previsualisation is completed on feel and instinct. You trust the world to provide the image which you are looking for. I enjoy them, they give me pleasure and contentment in their creation.

Oblique

In terms of defining the concept of the oblique we can say that: “The oblique is fundamentally interested in how a body physically experiences a space.”

In this case, both physically and spiritually.

The series investigates the concept through images of movement and stillness, fleeting glimpses of urban life intertwined with Zen-like images. The series is constructed not as a sequence, but as a “volume” where there is no beginning, no middle and no end. It is like a jewel that can be turned around and looked at from different perspectives, where no one perspective is the correct interpretation. Each volume has its own validity, its own uniqueness.

The images can also be read as a protest against death – no beginning, no middle, no end – where everything is connected to everything else. As Goethe observes in his Conversations with Eckermarm (5 June 1825):

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it.”

Dr Marcus Bunyan

Please note: the series is best viewed on a desktop computer with a large screen.

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The 66 images of Oblique (2019). Please click on the photograph to see a larger version of the work

Marcus Bunyan (Australian born England, b. 1958)
Untitled
2019
From the series Oblique
Digital colour photograph

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Dr Marcus Bunyan

Dr Marcus Bunyan is an Australian artist and writer. His art work explores the boundaries of identity and place. He writes Art Blart, an art and cultural memory archive, which posts mainly photography exhibitions from around the world. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from RMIT University, Melbourne, a Master of Arts (Fine Art Photography) from RMIT University, and a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.