Up Close

I took the ID students to this exhibition today, they seemed to like it, I know I did!  Have a look, it’s worth the trek to the outer reaches of Melbourne.

Up Close

Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang

31 July – 31 October 2010

Venue: Heide III: Central Galleries

Stephen McNeilly
Carol Jerrems, Daylesford, Victoria 1973
Private collection

Up Close traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems (1949–1980), and situates her work alongside  that of other photo-based artists from the 1970s and 1980s: Larry Clark and Nan Goldin from New York, and William Yang from Sydney. Sharing an interest in sub-cultural groups and individuals on the margins of society, each artist reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds through intimate depictions of people and their surroundings.

Features an extensive display of Jerrems’ photographs, films and items drawn from her archive including newly discovered prints and previously unseen out-takes from Kathy Drayton’s film, Girl in the Mirror (2005). These are complemented by Clark’s images of marginalised youth, including from his Tulsa portfolio; Yang’s celebratory images of Sydney’s gay scene  in the 1970s; and Goldin’s iconic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a photographic slide work chronicling the lives of her friends, family and lovers,  first shown at Frank Zappa’s birthday party in 1979.

You can read more about this exhibition by clicking HERE