Local artist and photographer Mr James Farley explores the landscape of the mind in his debut photographic exhibition at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery from Friday 9 August. A Bachelor of Arts (Visual and Performing Arts) (Honours) student, Mr Farley aims to take people on a journey into the unknown in Trepidation: VOID. Fellow photographer and lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Industries at CSU in Wagga Wagga Mr Chris Orchard will open the exhibition from 6pm to 8pm on Friday 9 August at the Gallery’s E3 art space. The exhibition of new works combines the traditions of English Romantic artist, Joseph M. W Turner and German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich with modern photography to create a provoking exploration into the contemporary psyche. “I have produced a collection of brooding atmospheric photographs. They are exhibited with a series of large-scale Romantic landscapes,” Mr Farley said. The photos form part of his CSU research project into the aesthetics of the contemporary Sublime, with a particular interest in the ambiguous concept of the Void.