The Still Point is a collaboration between local photographers Bijou Lilly and Kojiro Oishi, presenting a series of images that invite viewers to pause and reconsider the landscapes we so often move through without noticing. In an age saturated with digital imagery, the exhibition offers a quiet counterpoint – a meditation on seeing, presence, and the depth that exists beyond surface beauty. Working with 8mm, 35mm, and 120mm film cameras, one artist in black and white and the other in colour, each approaches the world through a distinct way of perceiving and recording place.
Together, their photographs converge at a subtle meeting point, where differing visions merge into a shared contemplation of time and landscape. As Arthur Rimbaud wrote, « Elle est retrouvée. / Quoi? – L’Éternité. / C’est la mer allée / Avec le soleil. » – “It is found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea gone away with the sun.” These images rest within that fleeting instant he describes: where light and land dissolve into one another, time seems to stand still, and something infinite quietly shimmers beneath the ordinary.
Bijou Lily is an artist and photographer whose work explores the intersection of rural life and wilderness. Born in Sydney and raised in Byron Bay, her work is focused on the rich landscape of the east coast. With a background in film and television, her practice is steeped in storytelling, using analog mediums such as 35mm and 8mm film to capture ephemeral scenes.
Kojiro Oishi is a photographer based visual artist born in Shikoku, Japan. He relocate to Australia in 2001 and is now based in Northern New South Wales. Oishi first picked up a camera in 1995, and by 1997 had set up a small darkroom in the kitchen of his apartment in Kyoto, where he began printing his own black-and-white photographs. A self-taught photographer, he continues to work primarily with analogue materials, using traditional darkroom techniques.