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Feel Good Hit of the Summer

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posted on 2024-11-20, 23:47 authored by Martin SmithMartin Smith

The exhibition of photographs and text consisted of 15 new works presented at Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane from 10 - 28th October, 2023.

Exhibition information reproduced here with permission of Jan Murphy Gallery.
Photographs reproduced with permission from Louis Lim.


History

ERA Category

  • Original Creative Work - Visual Art

Funding type

  • Private funds

Eligible major research output?

  • Yes

Research Statement

Background "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" was an exhibition that consisted of 15 new photo-media and text artworks presented at Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane. The artworks continued my research into the narratives of personal experience told through the combination of text and image. Personal reflections are written, then hand cut into photographs, that combine time, place and space designed to represent the various structures used to interpret a life. The exhibition also consisted of cyanotypes with resurrected letters that formed portraits of people posing nude for the camera. Contribution The series of works continued my research into disrupting the traditional descriptive and representational modes of text and image. The combination of personal stories that are told through a non-related photographs conflate multiple narratives into a single image. Through the creation of narrative worlds, such as the metalepsis the artworks highlight the role of narratives in the formation of meaning to question the nature of the photograph in representing experience. Significance This solo exhibition was held at a significant commercial gallery in inner-city Brisbane. Three works were exhibited at Sydney Contemporary and sold to private collectors.

Publisher

Jan Murphy Gallery

Place of publication

Brisbane

Confidential / Culturally sensitive

  • No

Copyright notes

Artworks © 2023 Martin Smith. Photographs © 2023 Louis Lim Exhibition information © 2023 Jan Murphy Gallery These works are covered by copyright. You must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owners must be obtained for all other uses.

Language

English

Medium

Photographs with hand-cut text Cyanotypes with letters stuck on

Size of work

Various

Number of discrete components

15

Exhibition date from

2023-10-10

Exhibition date to

2023-10-28

Was the work disseminated?

  • Yes

Form of dissemination

  • Exhibition

Scope of dissemination

  • Local

Did the work go on tour?

  • No

Venue

Jan Murphy Gallery

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