Welcome to the ART1 Journal

A space for reflection, insight, and the stories that live behind the collections that shape ART1.

Here, fine art photography meets process, memory, and creative practice, shaped by decades of creative exploration across movement, image-making, and visual storytelling.

Through light studies, monochrome atmospheres, POP abstraction, still life, and narrative works, each entry offers a deeper understanding of the ideas, influences, and lived experience that inform the work, its intention, and its place within the wider ART1 practice.

ART1 Journal

Coffs Goes POP

Coffs Goes POP

Coffs Goes POP is a body of work developed over time on the Coffs Coast, first presented as an exhibition in 2019, transforming familiar places into vibrant POP-inspired visual statements.

Coffs Goes POP

Coffs Goes POP is a body of work developed over time on the Coffs Coast, first presented as an exhibition in 2019, transforming familiar places into vibrant POP-inspired visual statements.

The Coffs Collection

The Coffs Collection

An overview of The Coffs Collection, at Yarrila Arts and Museum YAM, developed over time through lived experience on the Coffs Coast, exploring place, memory, and visual transformation within the...

The Coffs Collection

An overview of The Coffs Collection, at Yarrila Arts and Museum YAM, developed over time through lived experience on the Coffs Coast, exploring place, memory, and visual transformation within the...

Australian Photographer Raymond Mather Named Finalist in 2026 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize with Powerful Work “Taken”

Australian Photographer Raymond Mather Named Fi...

A finalist announcement for the Percivals 2026 Photographic Portrait Prize, featuring Taken, by Raymond Mather, a deeply personal portrait engaging with Australia’s Forced Adoption history. 

Australian Photographer Raymond Mather Named Fi...

A finalist announcement for the Percivals 2026 Photographic Portrait Prize, featuring Taken, by Raymond Mather, a deeply personal portrait engaging with Australia’s Forced Adoption history. 

Vivid Country Mix a woman with umbrella on the beach, abstract neon colours against a vivid pink and blue horizon, reimagined in Raymond Mather’s Pop Art style

Vivid Country

 Explore Vivid Country Mix by Raymond Mather - a Pop Art-inspired journey across Australia through colour, memory, and joyful fine-art photography.

Vivid Country

 Explore Vivid Country Mix by Raymond Mather - a Pop Art-inspired journey across Australia through colour, memory, and joyful fine-art photography.

Urban Commute - Series No.1

Urban Commute - Series No.1

Explore Urban Commute Series No.1, an abstract impressionistic photography collection by Australian artist Raymond Mather. A cinematic study of colour, motion, and emotion, capturing the fleeting poetry of city life in...

Urban Commute - Series No.1

Explore Urban Commute Series No.1, an abstract impressionistic photography collection by Australian artist Raymond Mather. A cinematic study of colour, motion, and emotion, capturing the fleeting poetry of city life in...

Monochrome Mix

Monochrome Mix

Explore the timeless beauty of black and white fine art photography by Raymond Mather. A study in light, tone, and emotion from the ART1 Monochrome Mix collection.

Monochrome Mix

Explore the timeless beauty of black and white fine art photography by Raymond Mather. A study in light, tone, and emotion from the ART1 Monochrome Mix collection.

ART1 Journal is where fine art photography meets reflection, a living archive of light, colour, and emotion in motion. Each story opens a window into the creative rhythm that shapes ART1, where vision becomes memory, and art meets life.

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