Darren Siwes Artistic Intentions
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Discuss the artist’s intentions and how they approach their artmaking.
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Darren Siwes is an Australian Artist who uses photography as his medium to express ideas such as not belonging and the feeling of dislocation. Siwes expresses these ideas through various photographical techniques, such as the colours and amount of light he uses, multiple exposures and through the landscapes he deliberately chooses.
Siwes use of colour is fairly limited in the majority of his shots. The lack of colour adds a sense of drama and suspense that couldn't have been felt if Siwes used a wide variety of colour in his work. The main source of colour in his works comes from streetlights or lamps in houses which cast a dim, yellowish shade over the work. This is seen in his work, One Night at Mount Lofty, where the only colour is shown through the lamps captured in this photograph. Quite often Siwes keeps his artwork black and white adding to this dramatic effect and therefore almost heightening the sense of dislocation, giving off a very serious, sombre atmosphere. He creates this lack of colour by using black and white film or colour film with a low ISO level, allowing for less light within his photographs and, hence, less colour. This whole art making process helps Siwes to present his intentions to the audience.
In nearly all of his works Siwes uses multiple exposures (generally a double exposure) where one photo is taken and then another on top of it. This process may be done numerous times and doesn't only have to be done digitally. An example of this may be seen in his work, Trained Man where a semi-transparent figure is seen in front of the railway platform. To my knowledge, Siwes doesn't digitally edit his photographs. The double exposure was simply done on his film camera. Siwes has evidentially set up his camera on a tripod, taken a photo of a landscape with a figure standing in it (commonly, the...
Refer to the resources supplied.
Discuss the artist’s intentions and how they approach their artmaking.
(500 words)
Darren Siwes is an Australian Artist who uses photography as his medium to express ideas such as not belonging and the feeling of dislocation. Siwes expresses these ideas through various photographical techniques, such as the colours and amount of light he uses, multiple exposures and through the landscapes he deliberately chooses.
Siwes use of colour is fairly limited in the majority of his shots. The lack of colour adds a sense of drama and suspense that couldn't have been felt if Siwes used a wide variety of colour in his work. The main source of colour in his works comes from streetlights or lamps in houses which cast a dim, yellowish shade over the work. This is seen in his work, One Night at Mount Lofty, where the only colour is shown through the lamps captured in this photograph. Quite often Siwes keeps his artwork black and white adding to this dramatic effect and therefore almost heightening the sense of dislocation, giving off a very serious, sombre atmosphere. He creates this lack of colour by using black and white film or colour film with a low ISO level, allowing for less light within his photographs and, hence, less colour. This whole art making process helps Siwes to present his intentions to the audience.
In nearly all of his works Siwes uses multiple exposures (generally a double exposure) where one photo is taken and then another on top of it. This process may be done numerous times and doesn't only have to be done digitally. An example of this may be seen in his work, Trained Man where a semi-transparent figure is seen in front of the railway platform. To my knowledge, Siwes doesn't digitally edit his photographs. The double exposure was simply done on his film camera. Siwes has evidentially set up his camera on a tripod, taken a photo of a landscape with a figure standing in it (commonly, the...