I’d like to warmly invite you to come along and celebrate my latest Solo Exhibition of works created during my stay in Poland earlier this year.
Exhibition Dates:
12 November – 7 December 2025
Venue: Melbourne City Library Gallery
Level1, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Opening Night:
Thursday 13 November, 5:30 – 7:00pm All welcome
***Please RSVP via email or SMS with your details
Hills Hoist is a deeply personal photographic project exploring love — for family, the land and a disappearing way of life in Poland.
The project began with a single image: an old suburban backyard clothesline Aldona encountered after migrating to Australia in 2009. Rusty, noisy and rotating in the wind, this oddly domestic device evoked memories of Aldona’s rural childhood in Poland and symbolised the emotional tension between past and present. This work revisits memories and documents one of the final harvests on Aldona’s family dairy farm. Through alternative processes such as cyanotypes as well as analogue photography, Aldona chronicles family’s daily life as they continue to farm under increasing existential pressure.
Read more:
https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/event/aldona-kmiec-hills-hoist
Image credit: © Aldona Kmieć, Hills Hoist cyanotype 2017 – 2025