Crossing Boundaries

PHOTO EXHIBITION

JOSIE FARQUHARSON 
Sydney

11th of April-18th of April 2013

Opening night 11.4.2013 at 6pm

A Crossing and a Dream is a two person photography exhibition featuring the work of Josie Farquharson and Anna Chase.

Anna Chase

Anna Chase is a Sydney based Artist, Actress and Singer. She specialises in performance based video works and digital photography. Chase has a strong theatrical aesthetic to her work, transforming herself into peculiar, distinctive and at times grotesque creatures and characters by combining prosthetics, makeup, physicality & costume. Chase studied Electronic Arts at University of Western Sydney and completed her Honours in Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts. Her video works have been exhibited at First Draft, Kudos Gallery, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Gaffa and Carriage Works.

'Dreamt in Light'

'Dreamt in Light' is a series of photographs capturing a character imprisoned in a stranger’s dream. Created in a surreal fantastical fashion, Chase plays a vulnerable, haunted and otherworldly being. We are faced with a creature poised on the threshold between human and other-than-human: a curious unknowable quality is personified in this creature. In this series, Chase wishes viewers to engage with how human-ness and other-ness are intimately bound up in one another. Chase’s work is suggestive of potential and fantastical modes of being and she creates unique characters which are dreamt up to bewilder and captivate viewers.

Josie Farquharson

Josie Farquharson is a Sydney based visual artist and a freelance photographer. Her work specializes in natural portraits that are influenced by and within each moment. The majority of her work has a strong documentary style background that show photographs based on real life stories. Leaving Germany in 2011 - the country in which she was born and raised - had an enormous impact on Josie's photography. Influenced by her travels abroad Josie soon adopted a new continent and culture where her photography began to focus on individual characters who had a unique way of life or a situation that defined them by where they lived or by where they were born and raised.

'Crossing Boundaries'

'Crossing Boundaries' is a series of photographs that began when Farquharson first moved to St. George. During that three month stay she reached out and connected with local characters and discovered a stark contrast to the comfort zone of her own lifestyle and life experience. Fascinated by the unique characters and their stories Josie continued to capture such real life portraits upon her return to Sydney. Comparing different faces, places and situations Farquharson's work shows just how multifaceted Australian life can be and what impact it can have on making every individual so unique.