artist talk

Tues 9th Oct 2012 Emma Weislander

http://www.emmawieslander.com/home/index.html

Artist talk LT1 10:00-

Emma Weislander is a fine art photographer specialising in landscapes.

She also teaches and takes on some commercial work.

Initial work shown included landscapes taken in Sweden some ten years ago, this work was a direct approach to the landscape.

Vanishing Point 2007 Ink-jet print 150cm x 150cm “The top of the iconic mountain the Matterhorn literally forms the central part of the work Vanishing Point. Photographed from a viewing platform, with the mountaintop positioned in the perspectival middle of the viewfinder, the very small part consisting of the very top itself has been cut out and enlarged to a point where the image is on the threshold of recognizable. Attempting to see the furthest away in this inaccessible part of the landscape as well as in its reproduction -the photograph - the subject becomes what is seen. Here I am interested in the recorded indexical information versus the interpolated information added by the digital process - as it is programmed to attempt to fill in the gaps where information is absent. Also, the experience of the image depends on the distance to it. This makes it impossible to look closely at the image, as what was depicted then dissolves.” http://www.emmawieslander.com/home/index.html

 

Taking inspiration from Leonado Da Vinci and his use of the distant background, this series replicated that looked at the distant horizon.

From here she moved onto a reinterpretation of the clichéd images of the sun.

Work was created using the 'Black Mirror' as inspiration and this series was shot in the Lake District

Yellow/Orange/Blue/Green 2008-2009 C-type print Series of 20 photographs. Another series of landscapes this time taken though old coloured glass filters (complete with optical imperfections)

How You Describe It (360º Sunset) 2007 Photosensitive epoxy resin using SLA Series of 5 sculptures 10cm x 10cm x 10cm. A series of 3D work representing the form taken by the sun as it sank below the horizon followed.

'The Museum of Snow' A series of work with an agenda commenting upon global warming.

'Glacier 60000' A moving image representation of an image created by degrading a JPEG image of a glacier using the 'File Save' technique. An exploration into the instability of digital media when repetitively saved.

`Dirty Dirty Trees' A moving image piece, filming the cleaning or birch trees.

'Wish you Were Here'. 2010 A series creating the impression that a landscape is being photographed using nothing but a studio wall, floor and a light-bulb crudely hung

'Burnt' 2010 A further exploration of the sunset, and the idea of the image considered as an object.

 

Seminar 15:00 Room 803

Notes include:

Humble Art Foundation http://hafny.org/

Ruby Mag http://www.ruby-mag.com.ar/home.html

Manage your own website

Keep an e-mail mailing list of persons interested in your work

Consider artist residency (if you wish to be a fine art photographer)

Apply for Photo festivals

Consider pictures libraries as an income stream.