photographer, works professionally as a photographer at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery [TMAG] and also has an extensive private practice as an exhibiting artist-photographer. His photographic series, Contest of Meaning , shown in University of Western Sydney (Nepean) Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts’ Maling Room at Casula Powerhouse from 25 November to 8 December 1996, was an extremely effective way of re-reading the past. It consisted of enlarged old photographs of turn of the century tourist spots in Tasmania, along with giant blow-ups of the male figures in these landscape views (some posed fooling around for the camera). Three photographs at least were acquired by Casula and his work was hung at the edge of the 'Swish’ show for Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1998. Another series of photographs commented on objects from the storerooms of the TMAG, e.g. a box labelled 'Human Remains’ (or something similar) on top of an elegant colonial sideboard, supposedly with Aboriginal and white busts also sitting on it. He was part of a group exhibition titled 'Ingress’ at First Site RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne from 14 to 24 December 2000, an exhibition showing work 'that invests new meanings in archived material’ (according to the invitation), which also included work by Michael Schlitz and Martin Walch. Had a solo show in Tasmania in 2002.
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- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
