MUDWORKS

Head On Photo Festival 2013

James Guppy

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Dates: 07 May 2013 - 25 May 2013

Location: Brenda May Gallery 2 Danks St Waterloo NSW 2017 Australia

Hours: Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 11/05/2013 6:00 am

A few years ago my practice went through an important change as, rather than referencing the images of others, I began working from my own photographs. Friends became models and accepted various physical indignities to indulge my story-making impulses. Rich and unexpected things came out of these sessions with the photographs becoming an important part of my work process.

This process matured with the involvement of my wife, Trude. I wanted to dress the models in Liminal garments suggesting archaic themes, she responded by making a bonnet of twigs, a corset of cow ribs, a crown of bark, and on fully grasping my intentions she added so much more.

I now see the photographs as works in their own right as, although technically different, thematically they are a continuation of my visual obsessions.