Digital Catalogue: 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Tim Gregory
b. 1981 Sydney NSW, lives Wollongong NSW
Libidinal Economies: Queen Victoria Monument, Queen’s Square, 3:10min 1907/2024 Captain Cook Monument, Hyde Park, 1:46min, c.1905/2023 Captain Cook Monument, Kurnell, 2:15min, 1906/2023 Governor Phillip Fountain, Botanical Gardens, 4:41min c.1905/2024, 2024
durational performance, vintage postcard, video still, bookbinding board, acrylic
Image courtesy of the artist © Tim Gregory
Artist Statement
The artwork consists of original early 20th century postcards of colonial monuments, collaged with performance stills from the same sites. Images from a spy camera are combined with the postcards, connecting colonial image networks one hundred years apart.
Rather than offering documentary proof, the low resolution, compressed image from the spy camera gestures towards an event occurring. The ambivalent performance refuses reification, never declaring the nature of the artist’s desire to "fuck" the monument. Instead, the work oscillates between critique and overidentification at the site/sight of the monument.
About the Artist
Dr Tim Gregory is a Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of New South Wales. His research focus is on the connection between settler-colonialism, modern sexuality and settler representations. His practice critiques settler image making genres and processes that affirm settler possession. He is the author of “Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism” (Routledge, 2020).
Gregory has exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW, HOTA Home of the Arts, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Casula Powerhouse and the Museo Del Traje, Madrid. Glover’s work has been included in the 8th Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, the John Fries Award, the Archibald Prize and The Blake Prize.
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