Eloise Maree | Ginin-ginin-derry III
Ginin-ginin-derry III
17.8 x 12.7 cm Tintype
“Ginin-ginin-derry I, II and III are camera original tintypes framed in reclaimed lumber frames. The tintypes were created on Gundungurra land, at Pulpit Hill Creek in the Megalong Valley. Through exposure times of around four minutes, Ginin-ginin-derry I and II bring to light the motion of the changing creek bed landscape, as well as the mutableness of the wetplate photographic process, via stasis. Ginin-ginin-derry is Gundungurra and Ngunawal for ‘sparkling like a waterfall’.”
$1,400
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).
