© National Portrait Gallery 2024
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While this self portrait depicts a scene filled with intimate details, it also evokes a confronting sense of absence and disconnection. The photograph was taken in what looks like the same room as the Ambrose Campbell portrait. Here, an unknown lover lies curled up in the sheets of the dishevelled bed. Their back is to us, they are not named in the title of the work, and they are distinctly separate from Jerrems, who sits upright, hands in her lap, looking at the camera. In the photograph of Campbell, Jerrems is positioned so she is reflected in the mirror, but here she is the focal point, with the mirror revealing nothing but the detritus of the room.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Mrs Joy Jerrems 1981.
© The Estate of Carol Jerrems
from Saturday 30 November 2024
Carol Jerrems: Portraits is a major exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential photographers. Jerrems’ intimate portraits of friends, lovers and artistic peers transcend the purely personal and have come to shape Australian visual culture.
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