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Face Value

Neale Stratford, Self Portrait 2009 Digital Photographic Print 130 x 100 cm

7 October - 22 October 2009
Opening 5pm Tuesday 6 October 2009

 

Neale Stratford - Face Value

‘Face Value’ is an exhibition about how we read each others’ body language, in particular that of the face. It features 200 photographs by Churchill artist Neale Stratford.

Neale is the 2008 winner of the  prestigious CCP/Colour Factory prize, a National prize for emerging photographers. The prize bagged him a solo exhibition at Melbourne’s premier photography gallery, the Centre for Contemporary Photography.

His work in this exhibition explores his experience of Asperger’s syndrome by photographing the faces of 200 action figures. Julie Cotter writes in the catalogue essay for the show, “These faces are the sites of fantasy, masks taken from the terrain of the comic book, or the theatrical spectacle of the wrestling match or the phantasmagorical scripts of characters that thrill, weave spells and heroically defend.”
Neale Stratford is completing his Final year of a Master of Visual Arts course at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design. ‘Face value’ is on show from October 7 – 22, with a public opening at 5pm, Tuesday 6 October. Switchback Gallery is at Building 6S, Monash Gippsland.

Image:
Neale Straford, Self Portrait 2009
Digital Photographic Print 130 x 100 cm