Lot 38

Work in very good condition, some works bear light creases and handling marks. All are housed in matching slim black frames, measuring to be 83 x 63 x 3cm each.


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Kwangju Biennale, Kwagju, Korea, 1995 (another example)

Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 3 February 1995–26 March 1995 (another example)

Prospect 19, Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Germany, 1996 (another example)

Campo 6, The Spiral Village, Museum of Modern Art, Torino, Italy and Bonnefanten Museum, Masstricht, Netherlands, 1996 (another example)

From the Street - Photographs From the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 April 1996–14 July 1996 (another example)

Venice Biennale (Futuro Present Passato), Venice, Italy, 1997 (another example)

Tracey Moffatt, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 8 September - 9 October 1999, (then toured Asia) (another example)

Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000 (another example)

Snelling, M., (ed.), Tracey Moffatt, The Institute of Modern Art and Asialink, Brisbane, 1999, p. 50-53 (illustrated, another example)
Newton, G., Tracey Moffatt: Fever Pitch, Piper Press, Sydney, 1995, p. 73-91 (illustrated, another example)

Related Work:
Scarred for Life II 1999, a series of ten photographs

Permanent Collections:
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
TATE Modern, London, as of 1994

Widely exhibited in major international exhibitions, Scarred for Life is a series that reinforced Tracey Moffatt's reputation as one of the most significant Australian contemporary artists of our time. In an interview with Gerald Matt, Moffatt describes the Scarred for Life series thus: "I have integrated rather ordinary washed out colour compositions with text describing the scene. I was inspired by looking at 1960s American Life magazine layouts. A kind of snapshot photography - very everyday moments based on real life tragic funny child-hood stories of my friends and myself. I felt that this was the only way to keep power in the image - to be ordinary, it does resonate. People remember the little boy giving birth to the doll. I could have shot this in a more clever dramatic way but in the end it had to be like a scene one would see as they passed and glanced in the living room door. In the case of this picture it means mother's point of view.

Snelling, M., Tracey Moffatt, exhibition catalogue, IMA, Brisbane, 1999, p.67

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