Raymond Mather

ART1 Fine Art Photography

ART1 is a self-curated fine art photography platform created by Australian artist Raymond Mather, presenting limited-edition photographic works drawn from a lifelong creative practice spanning dance, theatre, visual arts, curation, and photography.

Rather than operating through traditional gallery gatekeeping or mass-market print platforms, ART1 functions as an independent archive, a living body of work shaped over decades of cultural engagement, observation, and artistic evolution. Each artwork is positioned not as a decorative commodity but as a considered visual statement emerging from sustained practice, lived experience, and refined authorship.

Mather’s photographic language is informed by movement, timing, and spatial awareness developed through over forty years in dance and performance. This sensitivity translates into images that balance stillness with motion, atmosphere with structure, and immediacy with quiet reflection.

All works presented through ART1 are created from direct photographic capture and developed individually by the artist. Mather’s practice involves a layered digital process he describes as working at the edge of destruction, where images are pushed, stressed, and refined until an alternative artistic version reveals itself. Digital noise, artefacts, and visual tension are not errors to be corrected, but integral traces of this process, allowing the original photographic essence to remain present while being amplified and transformed. The practice spans landscapes, urban environments, nature, abstraction, and human presence, unified not by style alone, but by a consistent attention to rhythm, form, and emotional resonance.

ART1 is grounded in principles of sustainability, integrity, and accessibility. All works are produced using a Print-Roll-Send model: museum-quality papers, small edition sizes, on-demand production, and global delivery with minimal waste. This approach removes overproduction and storage in favour of precision, intention, and environmental responsibility.

The platform also reflects a shift away from external validation systems, prizes, commercial galleries, and algorithm-driven marketplaces, toward a self-directed model of cultural authorship. ART1 allows the artist to curate, contextualise, and present work in alignment with its original intent, free from commercial dilution or aesthetic compromise.

ART1 is not positioned as a trend-driven gallery, nor as a lifestyle brand. It exists as a quiet but enduring space for collectors, designers, and viewers who value authenticity and coherence, and who recognise art as something that holds presence over time rather than demanding attention. The works presented across the ART1 catalogue reflect this practice in its full scope and continuity.

This practice sits outside the mainstream not in opposition, but in evolution. It reflects a belief that contemporary art can be both independent and rigorous, both accessible and uncompromised, and that an artist’s body of work, when allowed to speak in its own voice, requires no amplification beyond clarity, care, and truth.