24th February - 12th March Opening 6-9pm 24th Feb   Eidetic memory is the ability to recall images, objects, or scenes in extreme abundance and clarity - as if they were present and actually visible. No wonder, then, that it is most commonly referred to as ‘photographic’ memory. Photographs are essential to our memory. They are the bricks from which we build history, and our sense of self; they are the proof we grew and lived and found things in the world. They also serve, when memory fails - or craves for more - as proxies for the people we love. Making a portrait isn’t just about recording a likeness of someone’s face. It’s about recording a moment, and a place in the world where things were happening. It’s about recording the subject’s relationship with the portrait maker, and with the people around them. But more than anything else, it’s about recording their character, and essence - that flame inside that makes them who and what they are. Portraits work best as a sneak attack, when nobody has time to smile, or fix their hair - when they’re too busy doing the things that makes them worth looking at in the first place. These images are not artworks, but memories; memories of the beautiful, hilarious people in them, and of some distant, lovely moment we spent together. ‘Eidetic Memory’  is Matthew Fullers debut exhibition.  A series of portraites taken in the day to day workings of his life.
			P 0449 916 853 E theowl@owlandcat.com.au A 34 Swan Street Richmond