Zoe Wetherall / Photographer

01/27/2025

Front Room Gallery, American Australian Association & Australian Women in New York Present: Living Lines - Aerial Photography by Zoe Wetherall
Thursday February 6th, 6-8pm
American Australian Association
600 3rd Ave Fl 34, New York, NY 10016, USA
Admission by registration only
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/tndnwd78

10/11/2024

“Driving in the Desert” (Valley of the Gods, Utah, USA) by Zoe Wetherall.

Last weekend to see “Living Lines” by Zoe Wetherall at Front Room Gallery, 225 Hudson Street, Hudson, NY.

Zoe Wetherall is an Australian artist living in New York, who creates large scale, limited edition prints that capture the intersection and borders within the nature environment. Her aerial photographs are taken from a hot air ballon, which gives a unique perspective to the abstract landscapes.

10/06/2024

09/09/2024

Opening this Saturday!

Zoe Wetherall
”Living Lines” solo exhibition
Reception, Saturday September 14th, 4-6
September 14th–October 13th, 2024
Fri-Sun 12-5 & by Appt.

Front Room is proud to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Zoe Wetherall. This is Wetherall’s 2nd solo exhibition with Front Room Gallery and her first in our Hudson exhibition space. In this exhibition of semi-abstract aerial photographs, Wetherall focuses on the geometry created when manmade and natural objects come together. These photographs are taken from the basket of a hot air balloon. From a few hundred feet Wetherall photographs straight downward, excluding the horizon, sky, or any visual reference point. Wetherall sees subtle patterns hidden in architecture and landscape.

Image: Zoe Wetherall, “Light and Dark” (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)

08/20/2024

We are thrilled with the article on upcoming exhibition featured in !! A big thanks to Meer and Rosario Ana Vizioli!!
Zoe Wetherall’s solo show of photography opens September 14th at the Front Room Gallery 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY.
Front Room is proud to present the photographic works of Zoe Wetherall. This is Wetherall’s 2nd solo exhibition with Front Room Gallery and her first in our Hudson exhibition space. In this exhibition of semi-abstract aerial photographs, Wetherall focuses on the geometry created when manmade and natural objects come together. From a few hundred feet Wetherall photographs straight downward, excluding the horizon, sky, or any visual reference point. Wetherall sees subtle patterns hidden in architecture and landscape. The lack of a visible horizon flattens the perspective and depth and accentuates the subtle textures, geometric patterns and hues.

Wetherall photographs from the basket of a hot air balloon, giving an element of performance to her photographs, albeit from behind the lens. This tenuous method allows her a certain amount of control of the elements around her like distance and timing. She can make decisions before and during the shooting, but she can not go back and retake a landscape that she has gently wafted over.

Wetherall’s photograph Light and dark reads like a Mark Rothko painting, with two thirds of the horizontal surface as a field of mottled brown, and one third as a light grey and beige impasto. The textures feel as if they have been scraped on with a pallette knife. On closer inspection the small rectangles and squares in the center are sheds(?) What had seemed to be a color field painting is a photograph taken from a balloon over Charlottesville, VA.

Read entire article here: https://www.meer.com/en/82010-zoe-wetheralls-photographic-works

05/02/2024

04/21/2024

Very excited to be a Hasselblad Masters finalist in the Architecture category! You can register and vote for my work here: https://www.hasselblad.com/inspiration/masters/2023/vote/

08/30/2023

Have you ever wanted to showcase your art in the heart of New York? Now is your chance to seize the opportunity and apply for the Australian Consulate-General New York's Emerging Artist Prize. The…

03/30/2023

Thank you Valentina Popivoda and for the feature article on Zoe Wetherall’s photographs in “Lines of Nature”

“Through her photography, Zoe Wetherall seeks to portray the structured geometry of both natural and constructed forms, using her camera to reveal the beauty of the subtle patterns hidden in the landscapes and architecture all around us.

Originally from Melbourne, Wetherall has been a resident of New York City since 2016. This series, focusing on US and Australian locations and shot from the baskets of hot-air balloons in flight, showcases her two home countries from a unique vantage point. Familiar landscapes become something quite different when viewed from great heights, with the distance sorting the noise and action of humanity far below into orderly, abstract designs.

The pronounced contrast of natural settings against the starkness of the built environment is of particular interest to Wetherall. Using a literal bird’s-eye view enables her to document this contrast and employ the visible landscape as a means of abstraction.

“Animals Feeding” color photograph appears as a modernist abstract painting, yet is a view of animals feeding at a trough. The neutral colors of the landscape add a striking contrast to the dark hues of the animal groups. On her “Hint of Green” color photograph, a vertical line bisects the two sides of this landscape photograph, with an arid dry field on the left and on the right of the image, bright green trees and verdant foliage burst with color, along a sandy grass field. The division between a watered land and unwatered, is apparent in this aerial photograph by Zoe Wetherall.” - Valentina Popivoda, Meer Magazine

Zoe Wetherall, Driving in the Desert, archival pigment print, limited edition color photograph.

02/27/2023