THE common thread of nostalgia links three exhibitions showing at PhotoAccess, Huw Davies Gallery until Sunday, April 29.

Kerry Baylor, in “Saturday Morning Water”, shows images of Merewether Beach, Newcastle, where she spent her childhood and are the result of many visits as an adult to the place where she grew up. Baylor’s style is evocative of family albums before the day of the perfect image. She shoots mainly with film and her work will spark fond and maybe embarrassing recollections.

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Alison Spence, in “Milkshakes & Mixed Lollies”, looks to her childhood in Victoria, and explores the declining corner shop and the milk bar.

Finally, in the Multimedia Room is “Untitled Moments”, a digital animation by Tim Brook and Ruth Hingston with sound track by Alistair Riddell, perhaps, PhotoAccess thinks, the first digital animation in the world to be based on embroidery.

First shown at CraftACT last year, PhotoAccess is giving this work another outing.

At Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre, until April 29. More information at www.photoaccess.org.au