Eloise Maree | Bushflowers II | SOLD
Bushflowers II
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.
SOLD
Eloise Maree, b. 1987
Bio
Eloise Maree is an artist and arts worker privileged to be working on and with Darug, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri land.
Eloise unpacks and repackages the past and its relationship to the present. Eloise uses 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 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). This locates Eloise’s art in the past as well as the present, and this colocation enables revisionings of history and historiography.
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).
