Tracey Moffatt & Hayley Millar-Baker

Any exhibition that includes Tracey Moffatt’s image making comes with a fanfare, and her collaborative show with photographer Hayley Millar-Baker, at Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, called ‘The truth of what occurred remains’, is no exception.

Art collector Reg Richardson began collecting Moffatt’s works in the 1990s and today is known to have amassed the largest body of her work – 112 pieces. His inaugural purchase was the suite of twenty-five black and white photolithographs shot. Richardson, who was born in Broken Hill, was attracted to the derelict buildings depicted in the images, the corrugated iron fences of the old 1800s mining town. For Moffatt the works were more about depicting an outback place anywhere, one inhabited by desperation and emptiness. She said to Richardson, ‘The town is supposed to be nowheresville’ and it is that town and surrounds in that goes on exhibition thanks to Richardson’s generous loan.