On the Museum of Contemporary Art\u2019s wall in Sydney are a series of eight photographic prints.<\/p>\n
When you first see them, you try to figure out what they are photographs of. The human body? A rocky landscape?<\/p>\n
The artist responsible, Curtin PhD student Jacqueline Ball, is happy with this response.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want the artwork to make people ask questions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Jacqueline\u2019s Fluctuate<\/em> series is part of the MCA\u2019s exhibition Primavera 2013<\/em>, the annual showcase of young Australian artists. A piece from the work, Fluctuate #4<\/em> was a finalist for the 2013 Bowness Photography Prize. Her last work Bliss<\/em> is also currently showing at the University of Western Australia\u2019s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.<\/p>\n But it isn\u2019t as easy as snapping a shot. Her prints depict a landscape of textured objects that she creates in her studio. She takes months to create each work, first designing, drawing and planning and then making moulds for casting. The next stage is building the objects and sets and then taking \u201cthousands\u201d of photos until she finds the right one. The Fluctuate<\/em> series took four months.<\/p>\n \u201cI sit there, looking through all the photos, noticing the little differences and then comparing them to the other prints in the series before I decide,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n When she was an undergraduate, Jacqueline found that documenting the world around her wasn\u2019t enough and she started creating her own part-organic, part-architectural landscapes to photograph.<\/p>\n \u201cI had an amazing Honours supervisor, Ms Annette Seeman,\u201d she said. The Curtin lecturer now supervises Jacqueline\u2019s PhD on how one can use photographic methods to create a sense of uncertainty in photomedia work.<\/p>\n Jacqueline hasn\u2019t paused after creating Fluctuate<\/em>. She is currently drawing and planning her next two works \u2013 one in Brisbane in March and one in Melbourne in August \u2013 and planning another residency in Iceland.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ideas for Fluctuate<\/em> developed from the research I undertook in Iceland and Finland,\u201d she said of her two previous residencies.<\/p>\n But she is firmly attached to Perth. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to travel to show your art and for residencies,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I want to be a Western Australian artist.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty good place to work.\u201d<\/p>\n For further information: Jacqueline Ball’s work is being exhibited in three different states across the country. 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\nMCA\u2019s Primavera Exhibition 2013<\/a>
\nMonash Gallery of Art’s 2013 Bowness Photography Prize finalists<\/a>
\nJacqueline Ball’s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"