Crusade of the Nautilidae by Vivienne Kelly.
Recording and studying visual interpretations of deep sea-dwelling life, Vivienne Kelly constructs photographs that depict the organic and majestic appearance of microscopic life. These works become imagined and constructed habitats where life systems appear in abstract images of light. The hidden wealth of the ocean floor offers an abundance of form, structure and microscopic life to be revealed.
Using light to illuminate plant and algae-like forms in the landscape, traditional photographic methods such as multiple and long exposures are combined to create an imaginary and ephemeral world where terrestrial and oceanic landscapes merge into one. These images synthesise the phenomena of photosynthesis and bioluminescence as form and content with light becoming a tool that is constructive and symbolic. The relationship between light and plant life echoes the relationship between photography and light and Kelly explores this interconnection in the construction and documentation of her chosen subject.
BIO
Vivienne Kelly is a photographic artist concerned with the synthesis of light, nature and photographic processes. Her practice has developed after the completion of Bachelor of Photography with Honours at Queensland College of Art in 2006. She has exhibited in Starter Space at Queensland Art Gallery. Her work is held in Gadens Lawyers and Brisbane Mater Private Hospital collections. Her extensive professional profile includes exhibitions at Queensland Centre of Photography, Metro Arts, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queensland Festival of Photography and Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. Kelly was a finalist in the Theiss Art Prize in 2006, a significant national art prize for emerging creatives.
