The Darling / Baaka,

Stills Gallery, Sydney;  Broken Hill Gallery;  Dubbo Regional Gallery;  RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Mildura Arts Centre.
Silver gelatin photographs, mud & sound

For her series the Darling, Ruby Davies decorated the walls of the gallery with photographic prints, river mud, written records, stories and songs on compact disc. Tracing the passage of Charles Sturt and Thomas Mitchell over the Darling River in the 1830’s, Davies returned to her childhood home at Wilcannia in western NSW in order to explore different viewpoints – colonial, pastoral, Indigenous – of the landscape.  Davies uses a pinhole camera, which requires extended exposures.  … The pinhole camera gives a vignette-like blur around the periphery and a central focal point for each image, offering clarity of vision which stretches to infinity.

Catriona Moore, Art & Australia, 2005, vol 42, no 3.