No season defines Australia more than summer. Australians are conditioned to cherish summer, to dream it, to love it, to drive around in it with the window down; to love it or leave it, to eat a snag in it and endure it with a smile on one's zinc-creamed face. I mean, it's frankly un-Australian to whinge and whine about summer, right? Just drink some more plonk and get on with savouring the heat and the possums and the cricket and the chiko rolls and the eye-candy and together we can forge the identity of a nation through....the weather. And if all this is too hard, you might just end up the subject of a photo like this one. And once you're in this photo you can actually reveal what might be closer to the truth i.e. that summer is for many a time of melancholic exclusion in a sparsely populated land whose inhabitants, insecure like a teenager, will tend to define themselves via notions of extreme weather, extreme animals and luckily, extreme shyness.
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Medium | Photograph, Paper, Framed by Artist |
Dimensions | 110cm (W) x 85cm (H) x 5cm (D) |
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Artist Bio
Alex Frayne has been involved in film and images from his earliest school days. Beginning with an 8mm camera in hand he has continued his love affair with the medium through school and then at Flinders University (BA). He has made short films a feature film (MODERN LOVE) and more recently his stills photography work has earned acclaim, most notably the ADELAIDE NOIR SERIES. Images from this body of work are held in collections in Australia and overseas. He lives in Adelaide and is represented in America by Michael Ash Partners New York.
He shoots mainly analogue film formats, including 6x6cm, 6x9cm and 6x7cm 120 fiilm.
Simon Caterson, for The Australian Newspaper writes: "Frayne's eerily still urban landscapes have been likened in their classical framing and pervasive sense of strangeness in the familiar, to the work of Stanley Kubrick and Jeffrey Smart..." (October 2017)
He has recently had 2 books published by Wakefield Press.
-Adelaide Noir, 86p, 2015
-Theatre of Life, Portraits - 80p, 2017
A third and final book for Wakefield Press, LANDSCAPES, is due for release xmas 2020.