| The exhibition Outback Celebration is a collection
of photographs from the 1998 adventure journey to the Australian Red Centre,
Northern Territory, North Western Australia and North Queensland.
Basia captures, photographically, some of the unique features of the
Australian Outback. She uses the inspiring light that gives magnificent
textures and vivid colours of orange, blue and red. Unusual inclusions
capture the essence and intimacies of the striking physical and human
landscape. She also shares with the viewer her continuous curiosity
about local people with a diversity of cultural and social backgrounds,
including those from Aboriginal communities. This exhibition gives a
feast for the eye and Basia's aim is to say: "Look! Isn't our country
wonderful!".
The exhibition was opened on Sunday, 28 March 1999, by Bill Wood, Member
for Brindabella, Australian Capital Territory Minister of Arts, at the
Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT. The exhibition opening was accompanied
by the book launch of The Imprint of Infinity by Jennifer Avriel
Martiniello, an Aboriginal writer, poet and academic living in Canberra
and Margo Stanislawska-Birnberg, a Melbourne writer with a Polish background.
The Imprint of Infinity is inspired by, and celebrates the spirit
of the land, and is published by Basia Meder through Tidbinbilla
Press. Basia saw this book as a bridge between our diverse cultural
backgrounds. The exhibition and the book became the collective voice
of unity and inspiration.
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Margo, Jennifer, Basia and Bill,
Minister of Arts, at the exhibition opening, Canberra, Australia, 1998
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| Andrzej Wawrzyniak, Director of the Asia and Pacific Museum
and Z.Kwiatkowski, Director of Royal Lazienki also opened this largely
extended exhibition on 26 May 2000 at the Wodozbior Gallery, Royal Lazienki,
Warsaw, Poland. The Polish exhibition "Koloryt Glebi Australii"
(Colours of Australian Outback) was dedicated by Basia to her Mum,
Janina Meder, to celebrate her eightieth birthday. |
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Director Andrzej Wawrzyniak, Basia Meder, Janina Meder
at the exhibition opening, Warsaw, Poland, 2000
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Basia Meder with Mum, Janina Meder at the exhibition
opening, Warsaw, Poland, 2000
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| The collection of photographs from Australian
Outback, extended by photographs from 1988 journey to Papua New
Guinea, was presented from November 2000 till March 2001 at the
exhibition "Wsrod pustyn, buszu, lasow i ogrodow" (Among
deserts, bushland, forests and garden of Australia and Papua New
Guinea). It was organised by the Anthropological and Archaeological
Museum, Lodz, Poland. |
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| Further displays of the Australian collection are planned
throughout Poland |
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