Lot 53

Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

Strange Magic, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 24 February - 19 March 2022

"Strange Magic was prompted by an interest in the gaudy world of stage magic, its elaborate displays of smoke and mirrors, spectacular tricks of the eye and confounding sleights of hand. Where the camera is conventionally claimed to possess a unique capacity for exposing and revealing something of the subject to its viewer, in Strange Magic, I perform acts of photographic disappearance. In Strange Magic, I conjure a set of vivid and varnished self-representations, strings concealed, I vanish before the camera's eye into a hall of smoke and mirrors."
(Artist's exhibition statement, 2022)

Courtesy The Artist and Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney