Join us on June 23, 4:00pm for Boxcopy’s Artist Relay series. Artists Charlie Hillhouse, Annie Macindoe and Martin Smith will discuss their art practices in dialogue with our current exhibition by Stephen Palmer and Utako Shindo.
The artists will take the baton in turns to discuss their practices before coming together for a thrilling relay of questions. Get your active wear on and prepare to cheer as we shoot the starting pistol for the second in a series of Artist Relays.
Charlie Hillhouse is an Australian photographer and passionate advocate of DIY publishing. Working primarily in photography Hillhouse’s practice blends a snapshot mentality with abstraction produced through a combination of printing techniques and image manipulation. Focusing on the banal, this mixed methods approach to image production prioritises form and aesthetic composition within everyday experiences. Recently expanding into video production and text installation, Hillhouse has widened the potential for these moments to augment conventional understanding of photographic practices in art.
Annie Macindoe is a Brisbane-based artist who is interested in how creative practice can respond to the limitations of traditional forms of language in the representation of loss and grief. Her practice deploys both written and visual language to construct multi-channel video installation works that present fragmented narrative forms. Macindoe draws on her own fragmented memories of loss, and reframes these through word, image and sound to poetically reimagine these repressed memories and emotions. Her work aims to reframe the dialogue around public and private responses to loss and grief and open up a discussion of their potential for shared, affectual, experiences through art.
Martin Smith’s research explores the synthesis of the two powerful communicative modes of representation in contemporary culture: text and the photograph. His artworks use personal narrative in ways that seek to unsettle the recognised descriptive and representational modes and composites for using text and photographs. These personal narratives are made up of letters cut into the photograph and often form an additional shape or vignette within or over the photographic image. This configuration intends to disrupt our usual expectation for reading or illustrating narrative and aims to create new understanding of the nature of the photograph and the role it plays in creating personal identity through the construction of narrative worlds. Martin is currently the convenor of the Photographic Art Practice stream of the Bachelor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University.
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