GALLERY 1
SAMANTHA GREGORY - DISTANT VOICES
OPENS WED FEB 5, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
CLOSES THURS MAR 12, 5:00PM
FREE
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Samantha Jade Gregory is a Sydney based photomedia artist currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, Sydney. Their work explores the idea of the disrupted photograph, the process of inflicting violence upon an image to encourage creation. They are interested in how distortion gives an image new agency, investigating the potentials of photography when given over to chance. Analogue and digital methodologies meet within their practice to create hybrid imagery, studying this symbiotic relationship and its resulting dialogue.
“The imagery I work with is largely shot from a personal perspective, meaning there is always a sense of inner reflection happening when I am behind the camera. I use my art as a way of self investigation, to understand the many layers of my being. My practice is less about orchestrating a scene to capture an appealing image, more so a response to significant events in my life, the recollection and processing of memory. This body of work began in response to the death of a loved one, then shifted to the exploration of distant childhood memories, an analysation of self. I expose myself in these works, my deepest repressions translated on paper, a new direction for my art making that is both vulnerable yet comforting.”
