3 – 28 September 2025
130 Regent Street Redfern, Gadigal Land Sydney Australia.
Colour Star
Colour Star by Claire Conroy takes its title from Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten’s colour harmony diagram, ColorStar.
Inspired by investigations into colour theory by both Itten and Josef Albers, Conroy has undertaken an exploration of colour within her black and white photographic work.
The images of loved ones and cherished objects are hand dyed pinhole photographs evoking specific moods and feelings, interactions of colour & visual resonance.
The collages explore colour combinations & shape using hand dyed photographic paper from the artists darkroom practice.
This series of contemporary photographs and collages have been made through hand-built cameras, including a caravan pinhole camera, exposing directly onto photographic paper making large scale negatives and processed in the caravan mobile studio darkroom.
Pinhole Photographs
Sonnet as Munch’s Madonna 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Contact Print. Edition 5 + 1 AP. (hand coloured variation)
42 cm x 50 cm
Rocking Horse 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Original Negative. One only 51 cm x 42 cm
Rocking Horse II 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Contact Print. Edition 5 + 1 AP (hand coloured variation)
51 cm x 42 cm
Rocking Horse III 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Contact Print. Edition 5 + 1 AP (hand coloured variation)
51 cm x 42 cm
Bird Cage, Blue Rainbow Lorikeet. Composition 1 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on
Gelatin silver photographic paper
Original Negative. One only 40 cm x 28 cm
Bird Cage, Yellow Rainbow Lorikeet. Composition 2 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on
Gelatin silver photographic paper
Original Negative. One only 33 cm x 22 cm
Sonnet Colour Star Yellow 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Contact print. One only 50 cm x 42 cm
Sonnet Colour Star Pink 2025
Pinhole photograph, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Original Negative. One Only 50 cm x 42 cm
Colour Star Clint 2025
Pinhole photographs collaged, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Original Negative. One only. 56 cm x 50 cm
Colour Star Karma 2025
Pinhole photographs collaged, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper
Original Negative. One only.
56 cm x 50 cm
Collages
Colour Star Collage 2025
Pinhole photographs collaged, hand dyed on Gelatin silver photographic paper, pinned to acoufelt
50 unique collages available.
8.5 cm x 7.5 cm
Caravan Camera Obscura
Pinhole Camera & Darkroom.
Claire Conroy with Caravan Camera Obscura / Pinhole Camera and Darkroom.
Photo: Kate Holmes 2025
