|
|
Artist Statement:
The Preponderance of Women
I think that I always wanted
to photograph women for all
the usual reasons, but over
the last decade I have allowed
my models to participate in
planning the shoot. This
produced the wonderful
complexity of two different
minds on the same project and
got me closest to my ideal of
cramming maximum content and
associations into an
apparently simple composition.
I've tried landscapes,
Cartier-Bresson-type street
images, even artschool
abstracts, but nothing else
produced strong images as
consistently as my female
models.
The imaging of women in art
is, of course, enormously
problematic - not least
because of the enormous weight
of thousands of years of
male-dominated art.
Consciously or unconsciously I
quote from that history. At
the same time there is a
special tension between male
photographer and female model
which, at least in part, comes
from the eternal fascination
with the female "other"
against decades of feminist
debate that has to some extent
touched all women.
At the same time images of
women persist in our culture
(in both art, advertising and
popular culture) because they
are so powerful and
compelling. For instance both
men's AND women's magazines
have ...
Further Information
| |
|
|
Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Collections:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Commissions:
Coming Soon!
|
|
|
Exhibitions for Tony Ryan:
|
|
|
1984: Open Shutter, Taslab Gallery
1986: Real Life, Walters Restaurant
1989: Cinderella, A Portrait, Capers Restaurant
1990: Ongoing exhibit at Bijoux Jewellery, Hobart.
1991: (18 Dec) Group exhibition for VERSIONS TWO book launch at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Place.
1993: My Beautiful Sister. Sidespace Gallery 6th-24th October
1994: Objects of Desire (group show), Caulfield Arts Complex, Victoria, 25 March - 10 April
Blue: Aspects of the Erotic, (group show) Sidespace Gallery, Hobart 25th August - 10 September, 41 Gold St. Collingwood, Vic. 3 - 16th October.
1995: (September) sent six images as 2Mb JPEGs by FTP to DOWN-THE- LINE`95, "the first Internet-sourced public exhibition of digital photographic images", presented by Visualeyes Imaging Services in collaboration with `Photon' Photographic Magazine between September 22nd and 29th at the Chapel Gallery, 24 West Street, Covent Garden, London.
1996: 17-27th February, co-exhibition with Isreali photographer Dejan Dizdar in Israel organised by email.
1998: The image "Hommage to Tom Samek (II)" was accepted for exhibition in the 1st Israel
International Salon of Photography 1998. I was the only Australian contributor.
1998: (December) - Offered exhibition space upstairs in a little shop called Findings at 134 Elizabeth st. Hobart - withdrawn when a client was offended by "Charity".
1999: Invited to contibute to the Tasmanian University Photographic society Annual exhibition in Lazenby's Restaurant, at the Univeristy. I exhibited "Charity", "Chelsea With Wings" and "Pillowbook". "Charity" sold.
2000: (June-September) First US exhibition at 848 Community Arts Centre, Divisidero St and
Passion Flower Bookshop
|
|
contact artist
