Studio Arts Photography Photographic Art from the class of 2013
Class of 2013 Hannah Arceri Kat Brink Lauren Broide Amelia Curie Bronte Danielson Ellen Duffy Emily Egan Claire Felix-Faure Alice Greet Jessi-May Hyland Athena Jeffries Paris Karalis Georgia Macaulay Jaime Levy Amy Lorkin Courtney Powell Isabelle Roberts Iza Staskowski Ally Thomas
Hannah Arceri I was looking through my mum’s photo album comparing how the appearance of my childhood photographs were different to hers. This is when I came across the idea to go on an adventure through the old and the new. The old has developed into the new, and we are left with an appropriated reflection of what we use to be. We often look at old things such as antiques, clothing, makeup, hairstyles and postures and notice just how much our world has modernised. Embracing this new world and considering history allows us to develop modern takes on the past. We as individuals have adapted to those changes and have learnt to accept what the world delivers to us. I want my work to portray a nostalgic aesthetic through muted colours, intricate patterning, flowing lines and overlapping old materials with new techniques.
Hannah Arceri Old and the New Inkjet Print, photo album, 30cm x 25cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Kat Brink Words open up a world of expression into what is unseen, things we say can leave scars or give hope. The x-ray installation represents the impact of what doctors have told my friends and I and the harsh reality of the facts. Since November 2012 I have had an injury which has restricted me from playing sport or achieving my best at school, I was told by my surgeon that I would have to learn how to walk again. This profoundly affected me. Propaganda posters have successfully been used to manipulate and persuade people to follow an idea. I intend on using words of persuasion that remind me of who I am and how I became that person. The words written are spoken by my parents. I have combined text with simple imagery to impact on the viewer visually and verbally.
Kat Brink You’ll Have to Learn to Walk Again Inkjet Print, acetate, wood, 60cmx 60cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Lauren Broide What surrounds you, and how does it make you feel? Being aware of what is around us and the senses one may experience depending on the environment they are in, has influenced me to explore the unseeable space. This heavily effects our emotions. Focusing closer on the idea of ‘empty space’ and the beauty and freedom that landscapes can provide, has resulted in me creating artworks where the colour influences the mood of these places. Colour and repetition creates a feeling of exhilaration and being bound by crowds allows the audience to experience a sensation of being overwhelmed by the invasion of space.
Lauren Broide Spatial Awareness Inkjet Print, acetate, lights, wood, 180cm x 120cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Amelia Curie My love of fashion and Bill Cunningham has inspired me to take portraits of interesting people. This bought me to Street style and the idea of creating a blog. “The main thing I love about street photography is that you find answers you don’t see at fashion shows.” – Bill Cunningham. For me those answers are a person’s style and personality. Every wrinkle, scars and the colour of their eyes all tell a story that is open to interpretation. My photos capture a person’s personality. I like my photos to be high contrast and either very colourful or completely black and white.
Amelia Curie Portraited Traditionally Inkjet Print, 5 (29.7cm x 21cm) Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Bronte Danielson Beauty and femininity are ageless and contribute majorly to a woman’s life. In exploring my theme “Ladies, Looks and Landscapes” I decided to express the beauty and glamour that lies within a woman. Through high fashion photographs I aimed to show the juxtaposition from a run down industrial environment opposed to a beautiful high-class fashion model. Through the use of new and improved technologies we use in today’s society I decided to focus my multimedia film on a new app called “cinemagram”. The snap shots that are shown explore the exaggerated extent to which young women go to look beautiful and glamorous.
Bronte Danielson Industrial Beauty Inkjet Print, video Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Ellen Duffy People convey their ideas and thoughts in unique ways, this fascinates me. How people can creatively express their own imagination and how others can be captivated by the result. The expression of a person’s imagination is what I have portrayed within my photographs, with a strong focus on both psychological and creative expression. To highlight the importance of the imagination through the use of colour and light has been my intention, as well as capturing the significance of inner creativity.
Ellen Duffy Imagine inkjet print, 90cm x 30cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Emily Egan Upon viewing my photos I want people to experience a dreamlike, desired state of mind and the physical state of being content with one’s self. Through my work I use vivid blues and negative space to create this empty state of mind where problems are a distant concern. When escaping from the world, a person can generate this feeling of serenity. I have photographed various images of the sky to portray changes of a person’s views on the world when they shut down to protect one’s self from failure.
Emily Egan Paper Plane Inkjet Print, 90cm x 30cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Claire Felix- Faure My influence for these artworks is all around us; a world of change and transition. As young adults, we are part of the movement into a modern world, expected to clutch change close to us in an effort to claim the new iPhone as our own, to feel the most evolved, superior to our counterparts. From a tangible example such as an iPhone to the more abstract idea of an age of transition, my concepts focused on the changing from old to new, from youth to maturity. Focusing on strong use of line and tone, as well as emphasizing contrast both within and between pieces, I have aimed to communicate the sometimes jarring and confusing nature of change. Repetition of images is another principle emphasized in order to convey that transition is present in every facet of life, repeating in order to find equilibrium in the nature of a person’s being.
Claire Felix- Faure World of Change Silver Gelatin Print, 42cm x 29.7cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Alice Greet We all have a place in our lives that really reflects who we are. That place for me is Trentham. Trentham is a country town and although small, plays a large part in my life. For this piece I decided to reflect on the shops and how they are such a huge part of the town. I juxtaposed the unique style of the shop facades with a repetitive theme of milk crates; as the milk crate structure symbolises the strong community connection. I have contrasted traditional black and white photographs with the bright green fabricated crates in order to have a dynamic visual impact.
Alice Greet The Crate Outdoors silver gelatin prints, milk crates, glass bottles, 150cm x 120cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Jessi-May Hyland I have always been captivated by the tall skyscrapers towering over me, just like a concrete jungle. When walking amidst the beautiful city, lights are reflecting geometric shapes onto my clothing. I love the diversity in which Melbourne City presents me with and I want other people to be able to experience that too. I want the excitement and busyness that is present in the city to be reflected in my work. I have done this through the use of disjointed repetition of geometric shapes, lines and vivid lights as well as isolating different shapes and space to create emphasis on light and colour. I am happy to call Melbourne City my home.
Jessi-May Hyland City Lights Inkjet Print, dowel, glue, cardboard, 60cm x 30cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Athena Jeffries From a young age I’ve held a propensity for the impossible, finding escape in the recesses of video games, dreams, movies and books; to be honest little has changed since. Humanities proclivity to strive for the unreal and unfeasible is, I believe, intrinsically tied to the solidity of reality which is as unrelenting as it is mundane. Like many others I’ve always been drawn to the improbable nature of fantasy and the solidification of this through imagination and fiction, it is this sense of awe and wonderment that I have tried to convey through the dynamic aesthetics of my work.
Athena Jeffries Untitiled, Inkjet Print, 56cm x 37cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Paris Karalis My mother always told me I grew up in the wrong era. I was fascinated by the 1950s and the feminine beauty in which women were portrayed. My photos indicate this through the refinement, grace, and beauty in appearance through gesture and pose. Whilst investigating the beauty and fashion of the 1950’s my interests diverted to the gender roles in the 1950s era. I want my dollhouse to portray the demanding domestic jobs, which are undervalued in this era. I would also like my work to reveal qualities of classic beauty of the 1950s through the uses of elegant shapes and strong, powerful and bright colours to give the feeling of sophistication and what it is of being a woman. However, I also wish to depict the sentiment of independence and therefore use repetition to emphasis the constant routine of a typical housewife doing multiple tasks on a daily basis.
Paris Karalis Dirty Laundry Doll house, inkjet printer, 150cm x 60cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Georgia Macaulay A Limbo land entirely made up of lost aspirations through fear, terrified of the future while also terrified of never escaping. Yes or No, In or Out.. I have deconstructed the indecision involved with waiting through three conceptual pieces; each individually explores different aspects involved with waiting. In piece 1 I have incorporated the pages of the doctor Seuss book “oh the places you’ll go”to portray a surrealistic feel that juxtaposes the realistic style of the other two works. In piece two I have recreated the waiting place through my own interpretation, moulding it to personal situations in which I have found myself waiting in. Within piece three I have appropriated Vincent Fantauzzo’s work within a different media to portray the though process behind endless waiting, and the internal battle people feel in this place. I have been fascinated with the emotional fix people have while stuck in the waiting place, while I have also been intrigued to determine how people escape this place. “Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying and find a bright place when boom bands are playing.”
Georgia Macaulay Waiting Place Inkjet printer, 3 (42cm x 29.7cm) Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Jaime Levy Everything that has significance in my life, all had to do with the land and the countryside. When I was younger the land represented purity, life, cleanliness and new things. Today the land represents God, new beginnings and new life. Being on the land makes me feel privileged because not many people get to experience it the way I have. I have this respect for the land that I hope to have portrayed this through my photos. The large landscape line is how the land is connected to each place and no matter where you go, and how different it may look, that I will always be connected to the rest of the world and God. The smaller abstract photographs highlights the vibrant colour and organic form conveying the beautiful aesthetics of nature.
Jaime Levy Love of land Inkjet Print , 300cm x 30cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Amy Lorkin The feeling of experiencing the world firsthand is what I aimed to capture in my photographs. Being authentic and genuine is something I have always valued in life; I would rather be doing an activity than watching someone else do it. I have chosen the viewpoint of a person going out and experiencing the world for themselves; in doing this they get the sensation of youth and free will. My main focus is on using light to represent the exploration of energy associated with ‘Forever Young’. I have also concentrated on travelling on the road and the going out aspect of embracing life.
Amy Lorkin Forever Young Inkjet Print, 3 (60cm x 40cm) Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Courtney Powell In today’s society there are a number of influences around us that pressure us into changing who we are in order to fit in. Through my images I wanted to convey the destructive nature of society and how our constant need to conform is destroying what is truly important. My images convey the control society has over all of us and how we often don’t even realise it. Through the use of light, contrast between colours and objects and the overlapping of images causes a sense of juxtaposition between reality and abstraction.
Courtney Powell Puppet People Inkjet print, 3 (33cm x 60cm) Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Belle Roberts We are constantly being judged by our appearance. I regularly hear degrading comments which compelled me to look deeper into society’s role at creating negative body image. My photos portray natural beauty, and capture the beauty within. I have captured this positivity through still life images of objects that symbolise feelings of self worth. The stop motion video reveals the process of artificial beauty generated by the use of Photoshop.
Belle Roberts You are Beautiful Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Iza Staskowski The desire to discover a holistic identity drove me to explore the development of my current identity, and my interest in losing it all together. I have focused on organic shapes and negative space to create a cohesive nature between my two contrasting works. The installation is based on the theme of ‘given identity’, and combines water colour, free hand cutting, wood, a stop motion video and an audio of my parent’s voices. The series of photographs concerns ‘loss of identity’, and has been created with photoshopped images mounted on old textured wood. Throughout my pieces I have used myself as a subject matter. This has enabled my work to be honest and raw, and allowed the communication of my themes to be highly personal.
Iza Statskowski Identify Me video, sound, paper, inkjet print, watercolour, 150cm x 120cm Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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Ally Thomas Standing in the middle of Times Square at 12am was the first time I have experienced light at its finest. It evoked an electric feeling as I was immediately captured by the bright, busy and fun lights. Ever since then I have been obsessed by capturing different types of lights and how they affect your mood and in establishing how an atmosphere may feel. I explored ‘Let there be Light’ and have taken photos of suburban areas to experience the secluded privacy of light. I also endeavoured to portray the way light provides a sense of intensity in any dark situations by painting around transport using light.
Ally Thomas Let There Be Light Inkjet print, 3 (42cm x 30cm) Reproduction courtesy of the artist and Star of the Sea College
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