Despard Gallery is excited to announce the second solo exhibition of emerging contemporary photographer, Micheila Petersfield.
Please join us and celebrate with the artist for an Opening Event – Friday 13 November, from 5:30pm
Listen to Micheila discuss the ideas behind her new series, as well as answer your questions, with Artist In Conversation –Saturday 14 November, from 11:30am.
Micheila Petersfield is an emerging contemporary photographer based in Tasmania. Her practice centres on critiquing the idealised representation of women in popular media through transformative self-portraiture. Within her narrative images, Petersfield adopts multiple roles, including choreographer, costume designer, model, photographer and retoucher, maintaining complete artistic and technical control. Her work is characterised through a flawless finish, drawing on digital manipulation and postproduction to shape her multiple personas into compelling portraits.
ARTIST INTERVIEW VIDEO
“Replica explores self-imaging in the contemporary digital era where photo editing is now accessible through the smartphone, enabling us to easily modify our appearance through filters and apps. This includes exploring the tensions and anxieties that occur as the digitally altered self-image encroaches on our lived reality and the increasingly blurred boundaries between our material and digital bodies.
Through the work, my body is re-envisioned as a series of replicas, exploring the notion of a body double. The visual references to the mannequin, doll and fashion model are used as symbols of the synthetic female body. Through the artifice of fashion, makeup and photo-manipulation I have intended to push the body towards a simulated state.” – Micheila Petersfield, 2020
Click here to request a full catalogue and Virtual Viewing Room for Micheila Petersfield.
EXHIBITION IMAGES
MICHEILA PETERSFIELD The Gesture 2019 digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm framed edition of 5 ALL SOLD
MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Masque 2020 Digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,900.00 (framed) 2 Available
MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Reflection 2020 Digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm or 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP)$3,900.00 (framed). sold 1/5
#4 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Bodice 2020 Digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm Edition of 5 $3,900.00 (framed)
#5 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Body Double 2020 Digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm Edition of 5 ALL SOLD
#12 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Porcelain 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#17 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Unclothed 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Doll Eyes 2020 Digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm or 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#10 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD La Poupée 2020 Digital print on archival paper 120 x 80 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#13 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Replica 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#8 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Glass 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#16 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD The Posing Stand 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 70 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP)$3,350.00 (framed)
15 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD The Performer 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 72 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#11 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Plastic 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 72 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#7 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Enclosed 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 72 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#14 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Silhouette 2020 Digital print on archival paper 100 x 72 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
Micheila Petersfield 2018
Birds
Digital print on archival paper
120 x 80 cm
edition of 5 + 2 AP
(framed with Art Glass)
ALL SOLD
#9 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Horizon 2020 Digital print on archival paper 70 x 100 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $3,350.00 (framed)
#18 MICHEILA PETERSFIELD Viscous 2019 digital print on archival paper 100 x 150 cm Edition of 5 (+2 AP) $5,500.00 (framed) 3 available
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
VIRTUAL VIEWING ROOM
Click here to request virtual viewing room catalogue.
