Artist Statement - Carmel Louise
“Using the latest digital technologies, I experiment with my photographic images through methods that displace the visual content. I then deliberately disrupt the physical surface of the print. Pushing traditional boundaries and limitations of colour, form, and texture, the image and print’s surface is restructured by hand-cutting and layering. The image separated into parts of its compositional elements becomes a disrupted 3-dimensional illusory space, one that liberates its potential to transform the original photographic image into an abstract visual fantasy.
What was originally seen in the camera viewfinder becomes other by digital and analogue/ hand-crafted processes. The deconstruction of the (often) banal content of the single photographic image is now transformed through digital manipulation and cutting, to separate and react against the limitations of conventional photography.”
Carmel Louise
De_Constructed 2.0
The Long Gallery
18th November - 19th December 2021
Constructional No.1, V4 in 3D, 2020 (detail), Carmel Louise, unique, 95 x 95cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson photosatin paper 270gsm
Stamen Alive in 3D, 2018 (detail), Carmel Louise, unique, 60 x 60cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson photosatin paper 270gsm
Constructional No.1, V4 in 3D, 2020 (detail), Carmel Louise, unique, 95 x 95cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson photosatin paper 270gsm
Pollination No.1 in 3D, 2021, Carmel Louise, unique, 60 x 60cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson rag photographique 210gsm
Constructional No.1, V1 in 3D, 2017, Carmel Louise, unique, 95 x 95cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson photosatin paper 270gsm
King Leo in 3D, 2020, Carmel Louise, unique, 60 x 60cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson rag photographique 210gsm
Oogenesis No.5 in 3D, 2016, Carmel Louise, unique, 29.7 x 42cm, photography and mixed media printed on Canson photosatin paper 270gsm
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