WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.870 Can you tell us a little bit 2 00:00:00.870 --> 00:00:02.400 about this incredible portrait? 3 00:00:02.400 --> 00:00:05.400 Sure, thanks so much Jill and for having me here. 4 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.940 And yeah, so the portrait's of my mother, Catherine, 5 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:10.510 and the photograph was taken 6 00:00:12.420 --> 00:00:14.250 in a family home that we had 7 00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:16.800 and my mother was relocating to Tasmania. 8 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.410 And on the last day that we were there 9 00:00:19.410 --> 00:00:22.980 I asked her to stand for this portrait 10 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:25.350 and yeah, she's holding a sculpture 11 00:00:25.350 --> 00:00:28.770 that belonged to my grandfather that had a lot of, 12 00:00:28.770 --> 00:00:31.860 you know, meaning to me and a lot of memories there. 13 00:00:31.860 --> 00:00:34.620 And so I wrote some text for it and I reached out to 14 00:00:34.620 --> 00:00:39.000 a very talented colorist in London, Jordan Lloyd, 15 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.330 and he kind of responded to the text 16 00:00:42.330 --> 00:00:46.200 and the sentiments of the photograph with the colour. 17 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:47.100 So it kind of, yeah, 18 00:00:47.100 --> 00:00:48.300 it created this sort of, 19 00:00:49.470 --> 00:00:51.720 I guess, an image or a portrait of my mother 20 00:00:51.720 --> 00:00:54.630 which I hope is sort of speaks more of the sentiment 21 00:00:54.630 --> 00:00:56.760 than any kind of reality 22 00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:59.250 'cause of course these things can't really be pictured 23 00:00:59.250 --> 00:01:02.253 or or written about in a way that kind of articulates. 24 00:01:03.570 --> 00:01:05.130 So here we are. 25 00:01:05.130 --> 00:01:07.200 There's been a few artists actually that we've spoken to 26 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.600 in the exhibition who have turned to 27 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:12.343 family and friends and loved ones as subjects 28 00:01:12.343 --> 00:01:13.950 simply because they were forced to 29 00:01:13.950 --> 00:01:15.030 during the COVID lockdown. 30 00:01:15.030 --> 00:01:16.530 Is that something you can relate to 31 00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:19.350 or is it just something you naturally came to over time? 32 00:01:19.350 --> 00:01:22.898 For me, it's sort of started more from a place of, 33 00:01:22.898 --> 00:01:24.570 you know, I started looking through 34 00:01:24.570 --> 00:01:27.660 archival family photography 35 00:01:27.660 --> 00:01:29.870 in a way to kind of better understand and position, 36 00:01:29.870 --> 00:01:31.170 you know, myself, 37 00:01:31.170 --> 00:01:33.360 and that's kind of as a photographer, you know, 38 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:36.120 making work about largely about a country 39 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.555 where you know, I'm the son of of immigrants and you know, 40 00:01:39.555 --> 00:01:42.330 it sort of stemmed from there, 41 00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:45.300 but, and you know, ultimately it's 42 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:47.400 I think a lot of photographers are trying to 43 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:48.510 hang onto things around them 44 00:01:48.510 --> 00:01:50.490 and that's why they take pictures. 45 00:01:50.490 --> 00:01:52.860 It took me a really long time to work that out about myself, 46 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:54.810 but, you know, that's where I'm at. 47 00:01:54.810 --> 00:01:58.050 And I read this amazing quote once 48 00:01:58.050 --> 00:01:59.460 and I can't even tell you who said it, 49 00:01:59.460 --> 00:02:00.397 but it was, you know, 50 00:02:00.397 --> 00:02:02.790 "Photograph the things that you love the most." 51 00:02:02.790 --> 00:02:06.892 And I had just read that actually just before you know, 52 00:02:06.892 --> 00:02:08.400 making this image of my mom 53 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.360 and I really think that, you know, 54 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.413 that's a really important sentiment 55 00:02:14.413 --> 00:02:16.110 that you can take to your photography 56 00:02:16.110 --> 00:02:18.450 and I think I'm not the only one that's doing that, 57 00:02:18.450 --> 00:02:20.497 I think a lot of people are realising that. 58 00:02:20.497 --> 00:02:23.080 line:15% (gentle music)