I am working on an ongoing collaborative project with humans under the age of 18. It’s a multi stage project, starting with our shoot in our lounge room, printing sessions and finally my collaborators are sent the portraits and asked to hand colour as they wish. Its such a nice process, the final surprising outcome is held in my hand and it feels so good. Stuff you AI.
I document my life on my first ever camera: the ever trustworthy 35mm film camera, the mighty Canon AE-1.
I take it out occasionally - when the light is right, I am knocked off work or my bag has some room in it.
Its photography for the fun of it.
You will see road trips to Broken Hill, Plane rides to Los Angeles, train trips through Japan and lazy afternoons at home.
This is an ongoing project.
Autobiographical postcards exploring my personal state of belonging and non-belonging and how my identity is intrinsically tied to nostalgic reveries of place.
Handwritten text on photographic postcards. 2014
Locus is a photographic exploration of our relationship to place and how our sense of place continues to be transformed by human intervention.
I examine the relationship between people and place and in particular, the way people perceive their place in the world.
Archival Lambda Prints 100cmx100cm 2013. Editions of 2
During July 2015 I spent a month doing an arts residency in the small town of Itoshima in the South of Japan.
My host friend Hiro had worked in the rice industry for 8 generations and he was the first to give it up. I was saddened to hear that the rice industry is coming to an end in Itoshima.
The final images are installed in the windows of an ancient building looking over the remaining rice fields.
Why doesn’t she crack a smile is a series of highly orchestrated portraiture by Mia Mala McDonald, overlaid with Catherine Tipping’s detailed needlework.
These pieces aim to evoke questions around the underlying tensions and reactions to the politics of the feminism.
Waratah fabric and cotton 60 x 40 cm.
Editions of 2
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