Robyn Stacey
Stills Gallery
AUS. Sydney, 23 Jul-24 Aug 2008
Robyn Stacey
Mr Macleay's Fruit and Flora
from The Great and the Good, 2008
type c print
240 x 340cm, edition of 1 + 1 AP
120 x 170cm, edition of 5 + 3 AP
Robyn Stacey
Miss Eliza Wentworth's Glassware
from The Great and the Good, 2008
type c prints
120 x 159cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
Robyn Stacey
The Duke of Northumberland's Tablecloth
from The Great and the Good, 2008
type c prints
120 x 159cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
Robyn Stacey’s startling image Mr Macleay’s Fruit and Flora, seems at first glance to be a digital construct, it comprises such a baffling array of fruits and flowers. Yet there is an historical foundation underpinning this luscious assemblage. Stacey’s large-scale photograph re-creates the lost botanic gardens of Elizabeth Bay House, once world famous not only for the Australian natives but for the exotics imported from China, India, South America and the Cape of Good Hope. All the plants featured in this photograph are nineteenth century varieties that would have been seen in the grounds at that time. Sadly the gardens no longer exist and the only record is the original plant list kept by Alexander Macleay, documenting all the plants he imported.
The suite of three works in Stacey’s The Great and the Good, are all created around Elizabeth Bay House, which was built by Alexander Macleay when he arrived as Colonial Secretary to NSW in 1826. The painstakingly constructed photographs reference historical painting and artefacts but use contemporary production techniques. They are technical and aesthetic marvels. Miss Eliza Wentworth’s Glassware, for example, contrasts the organic floral content of the other two works, presenting instead a crisp bouquet of crystal glass. The shards of light reflecting from the silvery surfaces create an almost tangible quality, as if the weighty yet delicate nature of the glasses threatens a regrettable breakage. This faux photo-realist painting, is therefore truly an expression of light and its multifarious illusions…
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Работы автора (серии) в Stills Gallery
Robyn Stacey
http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/artists ... bj_id=main
Robyn Stacey is one of Australia's most acclaimed photographers. Her large and striking images have been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since the mid 1980s. The early cinematic series, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1985), Redline 7000 (1987-89), All The Sounds of Fear (1990-1992), and Let It All Come Down (1994 at the Art Gallery of NSW) were based on film noir and use the collective archive of photography and film to connect with cultural memory.
This fascination with the possibilities of history to inform our present lead to her current obsession with the vast archival repositories of museums and in 2000 Stacey began researching and photographing historical natural history collections in Australia and overseas. Spending a number of years working with each collection Stacey's pictorially sumptuous photographic images present the eighteenth and nineteenth century specimens, artefacts, and scientific models to a contemporary audience, revealing their aesthetic, social and historical value. Investigating each specimen's material presence she groups and assembles them based on visual strategies drawn from the Dutch still life tradition to the scientific rationalism of taxonomy.
Commissioned by the MCA in 1996 to produce Love Finger a lenticular 3D image for the exhibition Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Stacey has continued experimenting with the technology, refining the illusion of depth and action in the lenticular work to amplify the aesthetic impact of the images. The lenticular works are held in the Australian National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery collection.
…In November 2007 Cambridge University Press launch Museum, Stacey's interpretation of the scientifically important and historically significant Macleay collection held at Sydney University. This follows the success of Herbarium, (Cambridge University Press 2004) which offered a unique insight into the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
Her work is studied as part of the New South Wales and Victorian High School Curriculum in the units: visual design, visual art, digital media, and photography…
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The 1994 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
ROBYN STACEY
Untitled 1994
digital, cibafilm montage
120 x 281 cm
http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstag/scholar ... tacey2.asp
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Крупная картинка — вот здесь:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/museums/pdfs_doc ... _Order.pdf
Информация о книге «Гербарий»:
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index ... le/593/662
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/42 ... matter.pdf
Еще см. вот здесь:
Photo-artist Robyn Stacey has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas since the mid-1980s, and is represented in all major public galleries. One of the first photographers in Australia to use a computer to generate and enhance images, she has developed a distinguished body of large, highly coloured manipulated works in series, including Point Cartwright , Blue Narcissus , The Infinity Gardens , Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , Redline 7000 , All the Sounds of Fear and Sideswipe . Her 2001 series Hot House , including works made through a newly-patented lenticular process, resulted from her artist-in-residency in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. National Portrait Gallery Board Chair Marilyn Darling saw Hot House, and recalled its lenticular images as the Board discussed possibilities for a commissioned posthumous portrait of the entomologist.
…The microscopically corrugated surface of a lenticular print causes the image thereupon to 'move' as the viewer changes position around the work.
http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/maki ... rhouse.htm
О лентикулярной печати:
Lenticular printing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing
Tracer Graphix Lenticular Printing : Lenticular Gallery Effects
http://www.tracergraphix.com/gallery1.htm
Lenticular Printing and Printers: http://www.lenstar.org/how/prepress.htm
Стерео-варио (lenticular print): http://www.art-3d.net/
Lenses Knowledge Base. Lenticular Printing, Lens Types, Alignment etc…
http://www.humaneyes.com/tech-support/resources/
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