Image Titles
- Antechamber 2016 Past Life Digital print
- Yes They Are Sleeping 2016 Past Life Digital print
- But Why Must I Be the Messenger? 2016 Past Life Digital print
- Into Darkness 2016 Past Life Digital print
- Furthest Outpost 2016 Past Life Digital print
- The Reward – 2 Minutes with the Sacred Pony 2016 Past Life Digital print
- Knowing 2016 Past Life Digital print
About the Suburban Spiritualism Series
‘Suburban Spiritualism’ is an ongoing series focusing on an array of characters that populate the opposing sides of a teen war being waged in the suburbs of a small Australian town.
Shooting in both regional and inner city locations across South-East Queensland, it is in the transitional spaces of this imagined suburb that the supernatural qualities of childhood and adolescence are explored.
The absence of cultural diversity in the regional communities the artists’ grew up in during the 1980’s and 1990’s, has provided the impetus to use subjects from a range of backgrounds.
Through the selected subjects, youth is further examined as a departure point to investigate the tensions surrounding otherness.
Recognising photography’s mystical properties, the artists place emphasis on improvisation and the intersection between planning, method, and the happy accident as integral to their process.
With the majority of the series shot at night in spaces already charged with memory, meaning and connectedness, the images pair the strange anomaly with the familiar, as well as a sense of the foreboding with the underbelly of the unseen.
