My Images

My Living Gallery | Latest Exhibition | Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Galleries | Works in collections

The images on this site are laid-out under the titles of exhibitions. Each exhibition is 
represented by a single image, however this is linked to a slide show for each exhibition on my Flicker site (opening in a new window).

Please note: All images contained on these sites are covered by copyright law (unless otherwise stated) and may not be copied or adjusted in any way without prior consent.


Photo by David Martinelli

A collection of over 4,000+ images taken over the last 10 years


Latest exhibition

Living on Larrakia Land and the close surrounds (2024) is an exhibition of 41 images that chart my journey across this fascinating First Nations lands of the Top End of Australia over the last couple of years.


Solo Exhibitions


Group Exhibitions

  • 2016 ‘Eclectic Views 1-3‘. Downlands Arts Exhibition, Downlands College Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2013 ‘Instagraming’, Downlands Arts Exhibition, Downlands College Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2012 ‘Slithers 5’, USQ Staff Show, USQ Library Building, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2011 ‘Slithers 5’, Downlands Arts Exhibition, Downlands College Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2008 ‘Slithers 4’, Downlands Arts Exhibition, Downlands College Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2007 ‘Slithers 3’, Downlands Arts Exhibition, Downlands College Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2002 ‘Slithers 2’, Creative Arts Expo, The Neil St Centre, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 2001 ‘Slithers 1’, Creative Arts Expo, The Neil St Centre, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1999 ‘Staff Show’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1999 ‘McGregor Prize for Photography Exhibition’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
Downlands Arts Exhibition 2016
  • 1998 ‘Interface’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1997 ‘Hears Looking At You Kid’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1997 ‘McGregor Prize for Photography Exhibition’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1997 ‘Heritage Photographic Awards exhibition’, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1996 ‘Heritage Photographic Awards exhibition’, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1996 ‘Media Ocher’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1995 ‘McGregor Prize for Photography Exhibition’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1995 ‘Heritage Photographic Awards exhibition’, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1994 ‘McGregor Prize for Photography Exhibition’, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld
  • 1994 ‘Heritage Photographic Awards exhibition’, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld
  • 1994 ‘Toowoomba Dawn to Dusk’, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld

Galleries

Instagraming Gallery  

These images are a small selection of a much greater boy of work found at: https://www.instagram.com/michael_sankey/


Slithers

Slithers are slices of the landscape
that have been stylised to emphasise
the colours and shapes of the landscape.


Camera obscurities and recent developments

A series of images that on first appearance may appear obscure, but on closer inspection start to make sense. These images very much play with shape and light.


Differing Views

This exhibition looked at historical images and represented them in two ways 1) in a modern context, and 2) as re-conceived quite differently, but paying homage to the original.


Here’s looking at you kid

A series of images exploring the beauty
of family.


Interface

A series of images that celebrate movement in the landscape in different forms that illustrate our tenuous relationship with it, as “man is like a great, his days are like a fleeting shadow”.


Newmarket

A series of images taken at the Newmarket stockyards in Melbourne before they closed to make way for residential blocks.


Seascapes

A series of images taken while we were living in Queenscliff in Victoria


Staff Show

A series of images celebrating the work
of the Media Services Unit at UniSQ at
the time.


Graduate Exhibition

A series of images associated with my graduation from Prahran College of Advanced Education (as it was known at the time), studying my Diploma of Art
and Design in Photography


WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

A very brief listing of institutions that have my photographic works in their collections

  • Goethe Institute, Melbourne, Australia 
  • Toowoomba City Council, Toowoomba, Australia
  • Toowoomba Hospice, Toowoomba, Australia
  • Heritage Building Society, Toowoomba, Australia
  • Toowoomba City Church, Toowoomba, Australia 
  • St.Ursula’s College, Toowoomba, Australia
  • Many Private Collections