Haydens is pleased to present CATARACTS, a solo exhibition by Guy Grabowsky. The works presented are the result of an exploration to decode, deconstruct, and reinterpret the photographic image. A visual literacy of repetition, colour, formality, and materiality functions as a narrative, threading the photographs together with the objects and drawings positioned around them.

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Guy Grabowsky’s practice ranges from pictorial photographs to abstract images, which are created with and without a camera. He utilises a hybrid and expanded field of photography, combining traditional with unorthodox forms of analogue and digital production. Grabowsky combines materials such as tape and acrylic with expressive gestures and minimalist, repetitive motifs, using mark-making as a form of spontaneous visual expression that enhances the dynamism and poetics of his images. Many of the photographs are the result of navigating through both digital and analogue processes. These processes and interventions manipulate pictorial space within his work, challenging our understanding of what constitutes a photograph.

Grabowsky (b. 1995, Australia) is an artist working with photography currently based in New York City and Melbourne, Australia. He completed a Masters of Fine Art in photography at Parsons School of Design | The New School, New York City in 2024, and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), at The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2018.

Selected exhibitions include, Anything Can be a Hammer, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York City, 2024; Aotearoa Art Fair, Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland, New Zealand 2022; The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, 2022; National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury, 2022; Earth Rots Underfoot, COMA Gallery, Sydney, 2021; Spring1883 Art Fair, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne, 2021; neither here nor there, Sutton Gallery, PHOTO Festival, Melbourne, 2021; Symbionts, STATION Gallery, PHOTO Festival, Melbourne, 2020.