Josie Telfer

1. Uluru
2. Kakadu
3 Murray River
4. Dry River

Four digital photographs
Digital photographs with transparent overlays.
Each image h.125mm x w.94mm x 6mm deep
on A4 mounts Price - $75 each or $250 for four

The history of western art traces our footsteps through the Louvre in Paris, and many Australian artists have followed this path. These photographs form a visual connection between France and Australia.

A number of years ago our family travelled around Australia. Some of the photographic slides from this experience were projected onto a white sculptured head, reminiscent of the white antique sculptures in the Louvre. New relationships of form were discovered, and the resulting photographs became symbolic links between the two countries.

The projection of the images from Uluru, Central Australia and Kakadu National Park in the north of Australia transforms the white cast head into the rocks of Uluru, and the wetlands of Kakadu, as though they were sculpted out of the rock and the water.
The image of my sister, Heather on a fallen log in the Murray River records a moment long since passed, and the image of a dry creek bed becomes like an Italian marble sculpture.

These works reinforce the important links between France and Australia in the visual arts.

Qualifications
2007      PhD Candidate, Victorian College of the Arts, The Melbourne University, Victoria.
2004      Master of Fine Art (by Research) Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria.

Recent Solo Exhibitions
2007      Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park, Victoria.
2006      Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
               St. Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne.
2005      Central Goldfields Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria.
               Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
2003      Monash University Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria.

Recent Selected Group Exhibitions
2007      ‘Imagined Australia”, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy.
               Life Drawing Exhibition, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Albert Park.
2006      “Transitions”, The 2πr Artists, Span Galleries, Melbourne.
               Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak, Victoria.
2005      “Dialogue” The 2πr Group Exhibition, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North.
               Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park, Victoria.
2004      33rd Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NorthernTerritory.
               Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, Queensland.
2003      “Dialogue” The 2πr Artists, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy.

Publications
Inga Walton, Womens Art Register Bulletin, Summer 2006.
Anya Machczynski, The Islander, March 30, 2006.
Dr. Robert Nelson, Catalogue Essay, Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize,2002.
Maureen McDermott, Interface, vol. 5, no.1, March, 2002.
Dr. Juliette Peers, Catalogue Essay, The 2r Artists, 1999.
Who’s Who in Australia and the Far East, 1987, 1990, 1995, 1999.

Represented by Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne.

Stephen McLaughlin Gallery,
Phone 0407 317 323, Level 8 Room 16 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St. Melbourne 3000

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