Lot 32

Work is in very good condition with no apparent faults to report. Well framed with minor wear to the edges 68 x 87cm.


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The Artist's Studio
Private collection, Melbourne

"Stacey's approach to photography is more akin to a painter or a printmaker, building up the image like layering oil paint or manipulating marks on an etching plate. The models for works in the series were friends of the artist, and first shot on black and white film. The montaged images were then printed on matte paper and hand coloured, then rephotographed onto a transparency and printed as a glossy Cibachrome.
Stacey works in series, often exploring a concept over a number of years. To each new project she brings careful investigation by accumulating specialist knowledge. Her compositions are highly constructed, and informed by history, science, literature and screen culture. She gives equal weight and care to each subject - whether an entomological specimen, a still life of colonial glassware, or an architectural view constructed by a camera obscura.
Stacey manipulates the still photographic image into a hum of suspense, as the works mark a threshold between audience and unknown performance".
(Excerpt from the Know My Name publication, 2020, Alice Clanachan, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide)

Another impression of the print is currently held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.