ONLINE
PANEL DISCUSSION: THE ANALOGUE IMAGE
THURSDAY MARCH 11
7.00PM - 8.00PM
ZOOM LINK PROVIDED VIA EVENTBRITE
FREE
THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.
PLEASE CONTACT HELLO@PLATFORMARTS.ORG.AU FOR ANY ENQUIRIES.
Join us for a rigorous discussion and insights into analogue artistic practice, with a panel chaired by established analogue photographic artist and Director of Noir Darkroom, Jessica Schwientek. This panel features emerging and established artists who are working within the experimental and analogue photographic medium, and includes Geelong-based artist Jonathan Dredge, Sydney-based artist Samantha Gregory, and Melbourne-based artists Guy Grabowsky and Keira Hudson.
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Jonathan is a multi disciplinary artist with a focus on film photography and alternative photographic practices. His work explores themes of nature and self, and is earthy and grounded yet imbued with a sense of spirituality and symbolism. Jonathan recently won the Best Film image at the Centre for Contemporary Photography Salon show and has a B.A Photography from RMIT. Jonathan lives with his wife Laura and two kids Joa and Awen in Geelong, Victoria. You can see his work at: https://www.instagram.com/jonathandredgeart/
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Samantha Gregory is an emerging Sydney-based photomedia artist. 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. Analogue and digital methodologies meet within their practice to create hybrid imagery, studying this symbiotic relationship and its resulting dialogue. You can see more of their work here: https://platformarts.org.au/platform-store
They are also our current exhibiting artist at Platform Arts.
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Guy Grabowsky is a Melbourne-based artist working with analogue photography. Grabowsky’s interest lies in the photographic medium—all aspects of its evolvement, its role in our shifting realities, how it ‘looks’ at us and how we perceive its usefulness. Grabowsky creates photographs with and without the camera, using unconventional and traditional analogue/digital techniques. Negatives are treated as found objects; the original narrative behind the moment of capture becomes irrelevant. Through intervention Grabowsky emphasises the sensual, ephemeral and textural qualities of the surface of the print. The work often tests Grabowsky’s perception of an unstable reality often present in the ubiquitous image. In Grabowsky’s images this ambiguous response continually evolves—the hand is present, causing destruction to reveal a new authenticity, a new Image. The photographic prints are created at times with camera and other times without, also utilising scanners, unconventional and traditional analogue/digital techniques. Each photograph embodies two components: the image itself, plus the reflection, or thinking about the photographic medium.
Guy graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts (2017) and BA Fine Art Honours (2018). Guy has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions throughout Melbourne and has been a recipient of a number of prizes, including the Plumm Wine Glass awards (2018), Mount Buller Residency (2017) and the Fiona Myer Award (2017). You can see and read more about here: https://guygrabowsky.com
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Keira Hudson is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice treads a fine balance between the beautiful and the disturbing. She studied printmaking at RMIT University before discovering the magic of wet plate photography. She is fascinated by the visceral, and her work is a jumble of mystery, sexuality, romanticism and melancholy. As well as wet plate, she also uses film photography, wax, paint, thread, and polaroids in her practice. This is her way of pushing the boundaries of photography and finding new material combinations. She has been exhibiting for over 10 years, and her works are included in national and international collections. You can see more of her work here: https://www.keirahudson.com/
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This discussion will be chaired by Jess Schwientek. Jessica Schwientek is a fine art photographer practicing in Coburg, Melbourne. Her focus is on analogue and chemistry based photography. Photography is a loose term for Jessica's practice with an emphasis on the alternative and the experimental. Her work is intrinsic; looking in at the world, herself, society, anything. She is an outsider on the inside drawn to the safety of the fringes. She is an educator, facilitator and gallery owner intent on supporting the works and careers of her peers. You can visit Noir's website here.
