Clare has recently completed her BFA (Honours) at RMIT. Her work will be on show at the Centre for Contemporary Photography from August 7 – September 27, 2009. We are currently working with Clare to produce her series of fine art photographs.

‘Climbing the Walls and Other Actions’ is primarily concerned with visually representing my experience of femininity, whilst also exploring aspects of representation that relate to feminism. The project considers the relationship between the body and space by including formal elements within each frame such as windows and corners. Through a sequence of precarious poses I explore my relationship with femininity, an approach born of frustration.

I use the body to promote ideas of discomfort and awkwardness, resisting the passivity inherent in traditional representations of femininity. The images attempt to de-stabilize the figure, drawing tension from the potential dangers the body faces in these positions.

Whilst the actions taking place are not in themselves particularly dangerous, the work demonstrates a gentle testing of physical boundaries and limitations via a child-like exploration of the physical environment.’

Gallery 2 Centre for Contemporary Photography

Exhibition opening Thursday 4th June 6-8pm

The photographs in Cheap Flights would not make it into many holiday albums, but they are still travel photographs. Taken on various trips between 2005-2008 they examine the more disappointing aspects of travel.
Travel is about expectation. We expect to have an enjoyable holiday; it says so in the brochure.

The majority of travel photographs aim to reaffirm the idea that fun was indeed had; the sunsets beautiful and the locals charming. These mementos serve as homemade propaganda, along with images of weddings and other family events. Cheap Flights embraces the anti-climactic and relishes the fact that there is a little bit of home in every place you go.

The Colour Factory has worked with Louis to create his artist prints for this exhibition and look forward to joining him for the opening this Thursday.

Also on at CCP:
Simon Zoric ‘I know you despise me for not being stronger’
Bianca Hester ‘Fashioning Discontinuities’
Arlo Mountford ‘The Folly’
Catherine Connolly ‘I’d never seen or heard anything so clearly made for me’
Larissa Hjorth ‘CU’

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Last Call for Photographic Awards Entries!

The Colour Factory and the Centre for Contemporary Photography invite all photographic artists in the first eight years of their practice to enter the fifth CCP/Colour Factory Award for an emerging photographic artist. The winner receives a solo exhibition at CCP from August 7 to 26 September 2009 and photographic fine art printing courtesy of Colour Factory. For an application form click here.

ENTRIES CLOSE JUNE 5 2009.

The judges in 2009 are Contemporary Art Collector Milton Harris, Artist David Rosetzky  and Colour Factory Director Phill Virgo .

The Colour Factory has been busy printing Tim’s photographic works for this breathtaking exhibition.

The exhibition consists of landscape photographs of the Simien Mountains in the North of Ethiopia.

In Tim’s own words:

“Travelling in Ethiopia gives one the Orlando-like illusion of living through different centuries”.
(Delva Murphy, Ethiopia with a Mule, 1968)

“The extraordinary landscapes of the Simien Mountains evoke feelings of temporal dislocation, of being transported to another time. Is it 2008, or 2001 or 1588?

In these photographs I hope to capture the feeling that I experienced in Ethiopia and most strongly in the Simien Mountains. The beauty of the landscape and the unique quality of the light immediately struck me, but there was also an uncanny sense of recognition, like being in a sublime 19th Century landscape painting.”

You can preview some of the exhibition images here before going to visit the prints in person at:

Forty Five Downstairs
45 flinders lane
Melbourne

The exhibition runs from 30 June to 11 July 2009.

Artist prints are just one of the Colour Factory’s many services.