Roo by Rachel Mounsey

Details

Retail price for the framed work is for pick-up from NERAM, Armidale. Shipping Australia-wide can be arranged and will be invoiced separately.

Retail price for unframed prints already includes shipping Australia-wide.

Year: 2023

Size: 120cm x 80cm

Medium: Canson platine rag

Description

Roo Hunting on Warumungu Country.

Dusk is falling. The girls have their eyes on the scrub as we pass through slowly. CC is leaning her head out of the troupey window, She spots it.

"ROO" she shouts suddenly, loud enough for Jimmy to hear and low enough not to startle the roo.

A complete silence falls over the troupey as Jimmy slows down, hits reverse, backs backwards and comes to a creeping stop. Even the dogs are quiet. The small girls huddle into the front seat. CC stays in the back, keeping her eyes fixed on the roo. All eyes are on the prize.

Jimmy rolls down the window and lifts the gun. 

Biography

Rachel Mounsey is an Australian photographer, photojournalist and member of the Oculi collective. Based in Victoria's most isolated town, Mallacoota, Mounsey captures the social and environmental stories and issues affecting regional and remote Australia through work that crosses the boundaries between press photography, documentary and fine art.

After studying photojournalism at La Trobe University, Mounsey began her photography career working on regional papers at Fairfax Media. She now works freelance and regularly contributes to national mastheads including The Age and The Guardian, while also working on her fine art practice.

Mounsey has been a finalist in photography awards including the National Portrait Gallery's National Photographic Portrait Prize and the Head On Portrait Award (both 2020), and was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. Nominated for a place in World Press Photo's prestigious Joop Swart Masterclass (2020) for her work covering the black summer fires in her home town of Mallacoota, she also received a nomination for entry into the 2021 Prix Pictet prize for photography and sustainability.

Mounsey's work is held in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and a large selection of her black summer bushfire photographs are held in the picture archives at the National Library of Australia.

Home: Mallacoota, Vic