Eloise Maree | Bushflowers III | SOLD
Bushflowers III
Tintype
Image size: 12.5 x 10 cm
Frame size: 31.5 x 25.5 cm
These brooding floral compositions are both natural and unnatural, being neither quite of the backlands or the bush nor quite of the bouquet
These 4x5 tintypes (wet plate process photographs) were shot using a Graflex large format camera and processed by hand, and the camera-originals framed in hardrock maple frames.
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Wet plate photographic processes
“Wet plate processes were popularised in Australia in the 1850s (the ambrotype (on glass) in 1854 and the tintype (on metal) in 1858). Eloise’s camera-original ambrotypes, tintypes (including aluminium tintypes) and glass plate negatives are both historical (hand sensitised using a silver nitrate solution, for example) and contemporary (shot using modern lenses and or lighting, for example), as are her gelatin silver prints. This hybridisation locates Eloise’s photographic art in the past as well as the present, and this colocation enables feminist revisionings of history and knowledge. ”
Eloise Maree, b. 1987
Bio
Eloise Maree is a Blue Mountains, Australia-based photographic artist privileged to be working on and with Darug, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri land.
Eloise unpacks and repackages ‘feminine’ histories and the past and its relationship to the present. Her camera-originals and prints are hand developed in a repurposed scullery in her home. This year (2020) Eloise has exhibited at the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery (Blue Mountains Cultural Centre) and Lyttleton Stores Cooperative (in conjunction with Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains and the Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust).
Eloise is interested in the history, and historic processes of, photography, and she has worked with and researched many photographic collections as well as other cultural materials (including clothing and textile collections).
Eloise is an experienced photographic artist by way of Craig Tuffin and Ellie Young of Gold Street Studios, as well as by way of a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) (Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney). Eloise also has a Master of Museum Studies (the University of Sydney).
