Wagner Art Gallery :: Specialists in Australian Fine Art

DAVID COLLINS

The objective of the work is to create an immersive experience for its audience that will make them an active voyeur, someone who is overwhelmed and swallowed by the work, and who through their curiosity chooses to look further and see more. The intention is that photography will support the illusion of ‘truth’ evoking empathy from the audience further provoking curiosity.

It is through ‘gazing’ at the series of images that a filmic narrative is built like a scene that lingers. The camera’s ability to capture the essence of time in the work gives the impression that everything visually stands very still allowing for a consuming gaze where the ‘eye becomes a prosthetic device to roam around the image petting and exploring the tactile’ until, the static nature of the bodies transform from erotic into a state of normality. (David Collins, 2011)

a midsummer night's dream (Act 2, Scene 1) C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 5 100 x 93cm	a midsummer night's dream (Act 4, Scene 1) C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 5 100 x 93cm
Love in Idleness C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 5 110 x 74cm	Robin Goodfellow C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 5 110 x 74cm
A Stone and an Eagle C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 110cm	Ascension of the Flesh C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 110cm
Cheap Date (Liam as Dionysis) C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 110cm	Black Mirrors C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 110cm
David as Hermes C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 110cm	Death of Adonis C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 162cm
Hades and Persephone (Always Hungry) C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 170cm	I Have Waited for you so Long my Shipwreck C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 110cm
Liam as Dionysis C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 151 x 110cm	Sally as Eros Riding a Deer C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 110 x 113cm
Self Portrait as St George (Ain’t no Love in Paradise) c-type photograph 110 x 176cm	I'll Meet you by Moonlight c-type photograph 110 x 81cm
The Dream of Oenghus c-type photograph 95 x 150cm	Wife Thief c-type photograph 110 x 110cm
Sweet Gorgon c-type photograph 147 x 110cm	Gold Dart Pub Night c-type photograph 110 x 139cm
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 2, Scene 1) C-type photograph in lustre paper Edition of 5 100 x 93cm	What Yo Pappa Said 110 x 141cm All works are giclee fine art prints on ilford gold fibre silk
Salomes Hat 150 x 110cm	Fuhrberg (Mohn in der Bergen) giclee fine art print on Ilford smooth pearl 136 x 110cm
Shân (a song for Napoleon's sister) giclee fine art print on Ilford smooth pearl 136 x 110cm	Takes a Lower Lip to Know giclee fine art print on Ilford smooth pearl 60 x 60cm
Milky Way Away giclee fine art print on Ilford smooth pearl 139 x 100cm	All the Pretty Horses giclee fine art print on Ilford smooth pearl 124.5 x 100cm
Dosbarth Dawns I Gariadon (Aberystwyth) giclee fine art print on Ilford smooth pearl 108 x 100cm	You in the d'Orsay 273 x 110cm
The Orchid 129 x 109cm	Songbird 132 x 110cm
You in the d'Orsay 77 x 100cm	What is For 108 x 110cm
No one is watching 132 x 100cm	Fool's Gold 118 x 80cm
Lonely Swan 141 x 100cm

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