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Love in Absence (2011)

01 Aug 2013, Posted by kate_mercer in

Love In Absence (2011) Installation – Video / Postcards / Giclee Print / Framed Polaroids This body of work explores the absence of family figures that conventionally feature in personal archives of photography. Whilst the context of this work originates from personal family photographic albums, it also...

Mirror (2010)

01 Aug 2013, Posted by kate_mercer in

Mirror (2010) There are many ways to understand a photograph. There is a tradition with photography that presumes that the content of a photograph, read as a document, is true. Whatever subject is captured on plate, paper or negative is authenticated as at once having been...

Chimera (2009)

01 Aug 2013, Posted by kate_mercer in

Chimera (2009) Photomontage - Series of 9 (Parcel paper, nylon thread, gicleé prints) Image size approximately 102mm x 150mm The family album - one of the most established and sentimentalised collections of photography we use culturally today. It's significant that the subject matter we manifest onto their tenderly thumbed pages has little...

Wings Beating Against Glass Windows (2012)

28 Jul 2013, Posted by kate_mercer in

Wings beating against glass windows (2012) Mixed media on canvas (1220mm x 1520mm) Private collection.   Commissioned for the 'City of Light' exhibition under the theme 'Angels'. NB: Formally exhibited under the title 'Rorschach'....