V O G U E | Diaspora: Still-Life photographs

This body of work variously titled Still Life, Still Lives, Australiana, Every Living Thing and All that remains explores the genre of the European 'Still Life' painting as translated into the context of Australia and contemporary art practice. This work questions colonial cultural heritage and the philosophical discourses that frame human relationships to animal and to wildlife in particular. The long lens of the "wild life photographer" is replaced by the close up lens, painted light and the table top.

Marian Drew is Associate Professor in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. She has held 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, the United States, France and Germany. Drew represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1992.

Marian Drew uses road kill animals in her work and states: "With this work I aim to bring an actual and specific death to our attention and to acknowledge this animal's close link to the sustainment of our lives."

" Still Life" hopes to draw attention to the value and beauty of these animals and acknowledge the relationship these animals have to our present lives.

Marian Drew's Still Life series will be on exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum from September 13 to November 11, 2011.

Marsupial with Protea, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Quoll with Bowl and Flowers, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Magpie with Pawpaw, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Wallaby and Tarpaulin, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Magpie with limes, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Crow with salt, 2003

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Tasmanian Rosella with Apple, 2005

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Kingfisher with chinese cloth and strawberries, 2009

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Emu with two drawn bowls, 2009

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Lorikeet with green cloth, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Courtesy Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Marian Drew: "Still Life"

Musee du Quai Branly, Paris

September 13 - November 11, 2011

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" Garden of Eden," is a series of still-life photographs, inspired by the paintings of old masters, but showing our modern fruits and vegetables from the supermarket, with label stickers or wrapped in plastic.

Andrzej Maciejewski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1959. He studied photography in Poland and Czechoslovakia, and in 1985 moved to Canada. His most famous projects so far, was "After Norman," a re-photographic project about Montreal, based on iconic 19th century photographs by Notman Studio. Andrzej has also published three books, Bread, Toronto Parks and After Notman. His works can be found in numerous public, private and corporate collections.

"Garden of Eden" was shortlisted in the still-life category of Sony World Photo Awards and published in several magazines. Early this year, photographs from the series were on exhibit in London at Sony World Photography Festival, and in New York at Art for change: Faces of Economy.
From August 20th to September 23rd, "Garden of Eden" will be on view at Camerawork Gallery in Portland Oregon. The photographic exhibition will be the first solo show of this project, inaugurating its world tour, to Las Vegas first, and then to several other venues in the US, Canada and Europe.

The 21st century society has created new Garden of Eden, where everything looks perfect and flawless. But many things, like the taste, the singularity and often even the humanity, have been lost during this process. My intention was to inspire a discussion on our relationship with the nature and the direction of our civilization.
~~Andrzej Maciejewski

Andrzej Maciejewski

Garden of Eden