NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES

THE PHOTOGRAPHS

THE EXHIBITION

Moores Building Art Space | 46 Henry Street, Fremantle WA

13 – 28 September 2025

Opening Reception: Friday 12 September, 6 – 8 p.m.

ASSOCIATED EVENTS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM

ATOMIC POETRY CALL OUT

In conjunction with the Perth Poetry Festival, the exhibition will feature an afternoon of atomic-themed poetry. We are seeking submissions from local poets. Six poems will be selected for a gallery-based reading with the selected poets paid a reading fee. Find out more and enter your submission here.

ARTIST TALK AND ATOMIC CONCERT

On Saturday 20 September photographer Brett Leigh Dicks will give a floor talk about the exhibition which will be followed by invited musical guests performing a short selection of atomic themed songs. Performers will be confirmed shortly, but the songs will include the likes of Paul Kelly’s “Maralinga,” Randy Newman’s “Political Science,” The Louvin Brothers’ “The Great Atomic Power,” U2’s “Seconds,” Bob Dylan’s “Let Me Die in My Footsteps,” and Calexico’s “Sonic Wind.”

Saturday 20 September

1:00 – 3:00 pm

Moores Building Art Space

46 Henry St Fremantle

ATOMIC PANEL DISCUSSION AND POETRY READINGS

On Sunday 28 September, NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES will host a reading of atomic-themed poetry from selected poets who contributed ekphrastic poems as part of the Perth Poetry Festival call out.

Sunday 28 September

1:00 – 3:00 pm

Moores Building Art Space

46 Henry St Fremantle

  • MINING

    1. Uranium Mine, La Sal, Utah, 2025.
    2. Mi Vida Uranium Mine, Steen Canyon, Utah, 2025.
    3. Buro Canyon Uranium Mine, Slick Rock, Colorado, 2025.
    4. Paradox Uranium Mines, Montrose County, Colorado, 2024.
    5. Billboard, Cameron, Arizona, 2025.

  • PRODUCTION

    1. Main Gate Sign, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2023.
    2. Burial Site, Chicago Pile-1, Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
    3. Control Room, X-10 Graphite Reactor, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 2024.
    4. Front Face, B Reactor, Hanford Site, Washington, 2023.
    5. B Reactor, Hanford Site, Washington, 2023.

  • TESTING

    1. Historic Photograph, Trinity Test Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 2016.
    2. Obelisk, Project Rulison Test Site, Parachute, Colorado, 2023.
    3. Apple II House, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, 2018.
    4. Westinghouse Atom Smasher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2023.
    5. Ground Zero, Project Adagio Nuclear Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, 2025.

  • WEAPONS

    1. Missile Park, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 2023.
    2. Atom Bomb Loading Pit, Wendover Air Force Base, Wendover, Utah, 2017.
    3. Titan ICBM Launch Facility, Aurora, Colorado, 2014.
    4. Control Room, Minuteman ICBM Launch Facility, Cooperville, North Dakota, 2013.
    5. Missile Field, Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Nekoma, North Dakota, 2018.

  • POWER

    1. Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
    2. Three Mile Island Cooling Towers, Goldsboro, Pennsylvania, 2023.
    3. Reactor Core, Satsop Nuclear Power Plant, Elma, Washington, 2016.
    4. Control Room, Experimental Breeder Reactor I, Arco, Idaho, 2018.
    5. Evacuation Siren, Palo Verde Generating Station, Tonopah, Arizona, 2017.

  • WASTE

    1. Mexican hat Uranium Disposal Cell, Halchita, Utah, 2019.
    2. Ore Rail Cars, Crescent Junction Disposal Cell, Crescent Junction, Utah, 2025.
    3. Green River Disposal Site, Green River, Utah, 2025.
    4. Former Hazelwood Interim Storage Site, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2024.
    5. Shirley Basin Disposal Site, Shirley Basin, Wyoming, 2023.