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'''Anne Ferran''' (born 1949) is an Australian photographer. |
'''Anne Ferran''' (born 1949) is an Australian photographer. |
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==Background== |
==Background== |
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Anne Ferran was born on |
Anne Ferran was born on 10 May 1949<ref name="c1">Newton, Gael (1988). Shades of Light. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 157. {{ISBN|0642081522}}.</ref> in Sydney, New South Wales.<ref name="c3">Judd, Craig. Anne Ferran's birds in space Photofile, No. 94, Autumn/Winter 2014: [63]-70.</ref> Ferran began exhibiting her photographic work in the early 1980s.<ref name="c10">{{cite web |publisher=[[The University of Sydney]] |year=2014 |title=Associate Professor Anne Ferran |access-date=20 April 2015 |url=http://www.sydney.edu.au/sca/about/people/profiles/anne.ferran.php }}</ref> |
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In 1986 she relocated to Europe after being awarded a Visual Arts Board travel grant from an Australian committee.<ref name="c10"/> She then took up a six-month residency at the Power Studio at the [[Cité internationale des arts]] in Paris.<ref name="c8"/> Ferran returned from overseas to [[Sydney]] to complete her Masters of Fine Arts, but then shifted to [[Melbourne in 1995 only a year after graduating. In 2003 she received a residency in London |
In 1986 she relocated to Europe after being awarded a Visual Arts Board travel grant from an Australian committee.<ref name="c10"/> She then took up a six-month residency at the Power Studio at the [[Cité internationale des arts]] in Paris.<ref name="c8">Australian National Gallery 1988, Australian Photography: The 1980s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra ACT</ref> Ferran returned from overseas to [[Sydney]] to complete her Masters of Fine Arts, but then shifted to [[Melbourne]] in 1995 only a year after graduating. In 2003 she received a residency in London from the Australian Council.<ref name="c22second">Press Release 2003, 1-38, 15 October – 15 November, Stills Gallery, Paddington NSW Australia.</ref> Ferran currently lives in Sydney. She recently retired from her role as an associate professor at the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name="c10"/> |
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==Education== |
==Education== |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Ferran was first recognized as a contemporary photographic artist during the 1980s |
Ferran was first recognized as a contemporary photographic artist during the 1980s<ref name="c10"/> due to her works: Carnal Knowledge and Scenes on the Death of Nature.<ref name="c10"/> As well as film and digital photography, Ferran uses a variety of different medias such as videography and a series of textile works.<ref name="c10"/> Her photographs have been exhibited both across Australia and internationally.<ref name="c10"/> The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Monash University, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and Queensland Art Gallery have all featured Ferran’s work.<ref name="c10"/> Internationally, Ferran’s exhibits have been displayed in three different countries: New Zealand, Japan and the United States of America.<ref name="c10"/> |
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Ferran’s work is motivated by the Australian colonial period; her main interest involves exploring the lives of nameless women and children.<ref name="c10"/> Later in her life Ferran’s interests have extended to histories of birds and the way that their natural environments are changing.<ref name="c10"/> Her touring retrospective of 2014 curated by Felicity Johnson was accompanied by an extensive catalogue.<ref>{{Cite book |
Ferran’s work is motivated by the Australian colonial period; her main interest involves exploring the lives of nameless women and children.<ref name="c10"/> Later in her life Ferran’s interests have extended to histories of birds and the way that their natural environments are changing.<ref name="c10"/> Her touring retrospective of 2014 curated by Felicity Johnson was accompanied by an extensive catalogue.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anne Ferran : Shadow Land.|last=Thierry|first=De Duve|publisher=Power Publications|others=Best, Susan,, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.|isbn=9781876793456|location=Sydney|oclc=891993714|year = 2014}}</ref> |
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==Notable works== |
==Notable works== |
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===Scenes on the Death of Nature (1986)=== |
===Scenes on the Death of Nature (1986)=== |
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Scenes on the Death of Nature |
Scenes on the Death of Nature was first exhibited at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in South Bank, from 19 March 1987 until 19 April 1987. The series was included in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1993 entitled ‘Points of view: Australian Photography 1985-95’.<ref name="c4">Australian Photography: The 1980s, Anne Ferran, Australian National Gallery, 1988</ref> |
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The exhibition consisted of five large (148.5 cm x 109.5 cm) |
The exhibition consisted of five large (148.5 cm x 109.5 cm)<ref name="c4"/> black and grey prints of young women draped across one another.<ref name="c5" >{{ cite news |last=Green |first=J |date=25 March 1987 |title=Escape to the world of subtlety|publisher=Melbourne Times|url=https://www.accaonline.org.au/sites/default/files/1987_25_March_Melbourne%20Times_Review.pdf}}</ref> The women were dressed in long flowing plain white garments with stony facial expressions in order to recreate the appearance of a neoclassical sculpture.<ref name="c6">{{Cite web |date=2014-02-19 |title=Anne Ferran: Shadow Land – review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/feb/19/anne-ferran-shadow-land-review |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> Her work, ''Scenes on the Death of Nature I'', 1986 was featured in Part I of the [https://nga.gov.au/knowmyname/ Know My Name] exhibition of Australian women artists in 2020-21 at the [[National Gallery of Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=National Gallery of Australia |title=Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now |url=https://nga.gov.au/knowmyname/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/ |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=National Gallery of Australia |language=en}}</ref> |
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===Carnal Knowledge 1984=== |
===Carnal Knowledge 1984=== |
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Ferran used her own daughter and friends as subjects in this project in an attempt to add a maternal component to the photographs.<ref name="c9">Art Gallery NSW nd, [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/186.1986.6/ Carnal Knowledge], Art Gallery NSW, viewed 20 April 2015</ref> |
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Ferran created Carnal Knowledge whilst residing in the Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney in 1995 with acclaimed artist Anne Brennan; the barracks were formerly a convict barracks and a female asylum.<ref name="c9">Art Gallery NSW nd, [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/186.1986.6/ Carnal Knowledge], Art Gallery NSW, viewed 20 April 2015</ref> Carnal Knowledge was heavily influenced by historical events that had occurred in the barracks to those who had lived there. Ferran displayed artifacts that had been recovered from underneath the barracks floorboards in her exhibition; using these items to evoke an understanding for the women who had lived and died in the asylum. These artifacts were also accompanied by a series of haunting photographs that are representative of young women who were residents in the Asylum. Ferran has since acknowledged the fact that the Hyde Park Barracks has altered her future artistic approach, as she is now able to appreciate the beauty in empty spaces.<ref name="c13">Barrett, J, & Miller, J 2014, Australian Artists in the contemporary museum, Ashgate Publishing Company, Surrey.</ref> Ferran used her own daughter and friends as subjects in this project in an attempt to add a maternal component to the photographs.<ref name="c9"/> |
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While the series of 13 images are sexualised, the images do not contain any nudity. The images are close ups of emotionless faces, which have been given the effect of stone to create the appearance of the passing of time.<ref name="c9"/> The exhibition was on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney alongside other photographic series for the Australian Perspecta exhibition in 1985. It returned again to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in July 1999 for the exhibition ‘What is this thing called photography?’<ref name="c9"/> |
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===Lost to worlds 2008=== |
===Lost to worlds 2008=== |
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Lost to worlds includes over a decade's worth of photographic work. The project was undertaken in Tasmanian at the remnants of two female convict prisons sites, known as female factories. The work conjures with Australia's shameful colonial past and is part of an international trend in art practice that is described as the "archival turn."<ref>{{Cite book |
Lost to worlds includes over a decade's worth of photographic work. The project was undertaken in Tasmanian at the remnants of two female convict prisons sites, known as female factories. The work conjures with Australia's shameful colonial past and is part of an international trend in art practice that is described as the "archival turn."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography|last=Susan|first=Best|date=20 October 2016|isbn=9781472529862|location=London|oclc=932577107}}</ref> One female factory was located in Hobart, the other was situated in the centre of Tasmanian on the border of the small town of Ross;<ref name="c10"/> all that remains of the latter prison today are one building, piles of dirt and a mess of stones. The images themselves are dominated by the landscape, barely giving the viewer any other perspectives, only occasionally offering a sight of the horizon or sky. The thirty images in the series are digitally printed (120 cm x 120 cm)<ref name="c22">Sutton gallery 2015,exhibitioninfo, Anne ferran, [http://www.suttongallery.com.au/exhibitions/exhibitioninfo.php?id=66 lost to worlds], Fitzroy VIC AUSTRALIA</ref> onto sheets of aluminium and set up so that when viewers move around the gallery observing the photographs, the reflections from the aluminium give the images an element of blurred motion.<ref name="c11">{{Cite web |title=2009 Exhibitions - Stills Gallery |url=http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/2009/index.php?obj_id=ferran |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.stillsgallery.com.au}}</ref> Ferran uses the large empty field to find elegance through the stillness in this series of visually confronting images, the series is symbolic of a fragmented past.<ref name="c10"/> |
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=== Tamworth Textile Triennial:Tension(s) 2020 === |
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Anne Ferran will exhibit at the Tamworth Regional Gallery from 1 August 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|first=|date=|title=Anne Ferran|url=https://anneferran.com/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405052122/http://anneferran.com |archive-date=5 April 2013 |access-date=23 July 2020|website=}}</ref> |
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===Other exhibitions=== |
===Other exhibitions=== |
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Latest revision as of 20:56, 10 November 2024
Anne Ferran (born 1949) is an Australian photographer.
Background
[edit]Anne Ferran was born on 10 May 1949[1] in Sydney, New South Wales.[2] Ferran began exhibiting her photographic work in the early 1980s.[3]
In 1986 she relocated to Europe after being awarded a Visual Arts Board travel grant from an Australian committee.[3] She then took up a six-month residency at the Power Studio at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.[4] Ferran returned from overseas to Sydney to complete her Masters of Fine Arts, but then shifted to Melbourne in 1995 only a year after graduating. In 2003 she received a residency in London from the Australian Council.[5] Ferran currently lives in Sydney. She recently retired from her role as an associate professor at the University of Sydney.[3]
Education
[edit]Ferran has a BA from the University of Sydney, a BA from Sydney College of the Arts (1985), and an MFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.[3]
Career
[edit]Ferran was first recognized as a contemporary photographic artist during the 1980s[3] due to her works: Carnal Knowledge and Scenes on the Death of Nature.[3] As well as film and digital photography, Ferran uses a variety of different medias such as videography and a series of textile works.[3] Her photographs have been exhibited both across Australia and internationally.[3] The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Monash University, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and Queensland Art Gallery have all featured Ferran’s work.[3] Internationally, Ferran’s exhibits have been displayed in three different countries: New Zealand, Japan and the United States of America.[3]
Ferran’s work is motivated by the Australian colonial period; her main interest involves exploring the lives of nameless women and children.[3] Later in her life Ferran’s interests have extended to histories of birds and the way that their natural environments are changing.[3] Her touring retrospective of 2014 curated by Felicity Johnson was accompanied by an extensive catalogue.[6]
Notable works
[edit]Scenes on the Death of Nature (1986)
[edit]Scenes on the Death of Nature was first exhibited at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in South Bank, from 19 March 1987 until 19 April 1987. The series was included in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1993 entitled ‘Points of view: Australian Photography 1985-95’.[7] The exhibition consisted of five large (148.5 cm x 109.5 cm)[7] black and grey prints of young women draped across one another.[8] The women were dressed in long flowing plain white garments with stony facial expressions in order to recreate the appearance of a neoclassical sculpture.[9] Her work, Scenes on the Death of Nature I, 1986 was featured in Part I of the Know My Name exhibition of Australian women artists in 2020-21 at the National Gallery of Australia.[10]
Carnal Knowledge 1984
[edit]Ferran used her own daughter and friends as subjects in this project in an attempt to add a maternal component to the photographs.[11]
While the series of 13 images are sexualised, the images do not contain any nudity. The images are close ups of emotionless faces, which have been given the effect of stone to create the appearance of the passing of time.[11] The exhibition was on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney alongside other photographic series for the Australian Perspecta exhibition in 1985. It returned again to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in July 1999 for the exhibition ‘What is this thing called photography?’[11]
Lost to worlds 2008
[edit]Lost to worlds includes over a decade's worth of photographic work. The project was undertaken in Tasmanian at the remnants of two female convict prisons sites, known as female factories. The work conjures with Australia's shameful colonial past and is part of an international trend in art practice that is described as the "archival turn."[12] One female factory was located in Hobart, the other was situated in the centre of Tasmanian on the border of the small town of Ross;[3] all that remains of the latter prison today are one building, piles of dirt and a mess of stones. The images themselves are dominated by the landscape, barely giving the viewer any other perspectives, only occasionally offering a sight of the horizon or sky. The thirty images in the series are digitally printed (120 cm x 120 cm)[13] onto sheets of aluminium and set up so that when viewers move around the gallery observing the photographs, the reflections from the aluminium give the images an element of blurred motion.[14] Ferran uses the large empty field to find elegance through the stillness in this series of visually confronting images, the series is symbolic of a fragmented past.[3]
Tamworth Textile Triennial:Tension(s) 2020
[edit]Anne Ferran will exhibit at the Tamworth Regional Gallery from 1 August 2020.[15]
Other exhibitions
[edit]- Box Of Birds
- Female House Of Correction
- Birds Of Darlinghurst
- Rydalmere Vertical
- Songbirds Are Everywhere
- Soft Caps
- Lost To Worlds 2008
- Scenes On The Death Of Nature
- Backwater
- Untitled Photograms
- Twice Removed
- Insula
- 1-38
References
[edit]- ^ Newton, Gael (1988). Shades of Light. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 157. ISBN 0642081522.
- ^ Judd, Craig. Anne Ferran's birds in space Photofile, No. 94, Autumn/Winter 2014: [63]-70.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Associate Professor Anne Ferran". The University of Sydney. 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
- ^ Australian National Gallery 1988, Australian Photography: The 1980s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra ACT
- ^ Press Release 2003, 1-38, 15 October – 15 November, Stills Gallery, Paddington NSW Australia.
- ^ Thierry, De Duve (2014). Anne Ferran : Shadow Land. Best, Susan,, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Sydney: Power Publications. ISBN 9781876793456. OCLC 891993714.
- ^ a b Australian Photography: The 1980s, Anne Ferran, Australian National Gallery, 1988
- ^ Green, J (25 March 1987). "Escape to the world of subtlety" (PDF). Melbourne Times.
- ^ "Anne Ferran: Shadow Land – review". the Guardian. 19 February 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ National Gallery of Australia. "Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Art Gallery NSW nd, Carnal Knowledge, Art Gallery NSW, viewed 20 April 2015
- ^ Susan, Best (20 October 2016). Reparative aesthetics : witnessing in contemporary art photography. London. ISBN 9781472529862. OCLC 932577107.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Sutton gallery 2015,exhibitioninfo, Anne ferran, lost to worlds, Fitzroy VIC AUSTRALIA
- ^ "2009 Exhibitions - Stills Gallery". www.stillsgallery.com.au. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "Anne Ferran". Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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