Rebecca Cobb-Clark

3.3.09

Fiona Hall - 'Leaf Litter' Materials

In creating her 'Leaf Litter' series Fiona Hall uses about 183 banknotes of varying currency. She then has painted very lightly using gouache paint to create an x-ray image of a leaf from where the banknote is from. The leaves are transparent to allow the viewer to see the banknotes underneath and to get the idea that the two are inter-linked. When she uses multiple banknotes they are stuck together using paper tape on the back to continue the picture as a whole. What’s really interesting is when they are hung on the wall they are only attached at the top to allow the lower part to move and to increase the transparency of the piece.

http://dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/module/849/

2.3.09

Tracey Moffat - 'Something More' Materials.

Tracey Moffat’s work ‘Something More’ is a series of 9 photographs. There are six photographs that are in colour and there are three that are made using gelatin silver. This type of photography is the most common type of black and white photography. The paper is coated in a thin layer of gelatin, which contains small light sensitive silver salts. The colour photographs are direct positive colour images. This means that negatives are not used and the photo is directly placed onto photosensitive paper, which also means exposure cannot be altered and each photo is original and cannot be duplicated.

http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=148563
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/processframe.php?processid=pr002
http://www.wealthcollection.com/pdf/photo.pdf