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Username: Dragana
Member Since: August 2010
Member Since: August 2010
Dublin, Co Dublin Ireland
My practice questions the nature of photographic seeing. Are photographers standing back and taking the wider view which separates them both physically and psychologically from their subjects ‘like the gods gazing down on the earth with Olympian di... more
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| Gender: | Female |
| Artist Statement: | My practice questions the nature of photographic seeing. Are photographers standing back and taking the wider view which separates them both physically and psychologically from their subjects ‘like the gods gazing down on the earth with Olympian dispassion’; or are they hiding with their presented vision, the hurt that they experience in the process? Are photographers tricked by beauty? |
| Education: | Ongoing - Ph.D. studies, European Centre for Photographic Research, University of Wales, Newport, UK 2008 - MFA Documentary Photography, University of Wales, Newport, UK (distinction) 1998 - BA Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Rijeka, Croatia (distinction). |
| Awards & Distinctions: | 2010 - Shortlisted for the Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2010 - Salon Contemporary's Emerging Artist Award (shortlisted), Salon Contemporary, London, UK 2010 - Travel and Training Award, Arts Council, Ireland 2010 - Finalist for The Julia Margaret Cameron Award (a worldwide competition for women photographers) 2009 - Shortlisted for the Emerging Visual Artist Award 2009, Ireland 2009 - Wales Arts International Project Award, Wales, UK 2009 - MAstars, Axis, an annual selection of the most promising artists from the UK's leading MA courses. |
| Professional/Teaching Experience: | Part-time lecturer, Dublin Business School, Ireland |
| Exhibitions: | SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 - Seeing Things, Droichead Art Centre, Droiched, Ireland 2011 - A Riddle, Riverbank Art Centre, Newbridge, Ireland 2009 - Seeing Things, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 - The Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, The Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 - Wunderland, tactileBOSCH Gallery, Cardiff, UK. 2011 - Disruptive Stillness, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan 2010 - Collective Contemporary Art (CCA), Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland 2010 - Rituals of Recreation, The Photographic Angle, First Choice House, London Road, Crawley, UK 2010 - My World: Visions of 21st Century Feminism, The European Women’s Lobby Photography Prize Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium 2010 - Enniskillen Visual Arts Festival, Lakeland Forum, Enniskillen 2010 - Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2010 - OpenCall 2010, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland 2010 - Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies projections, Duke University, USA 2009 - What is Crime? (Best British crime photography), 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London, UK 2009 - Circa Salon 2, Thisisnotashop Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2009 - distill[ed], Menier Gallery, London, UK 2008 - (Not) a Photograph, Mestna galerija, Piran, Slovenia 2008 - 178th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland 2008 - There & Back, Turner House Gallery, Penarth, UK |
| Artist Tags: | photography, diary, autobiography, birds, seeing |
