Andrew Dearman is a South Australian photographer and arts educator, known for his work with vintage cameras and vintage photographic methods such as tintypes and ambrotypes. He frequently conducts workshops and demonstrations into historical photographic techniques.
Biography
Dearman is an
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
-based
photographer
A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographe ...
and his 2008 doctoral thesis is titled ''Art Practice and Governmentality: The Role Modelling Effects of Contemporary Art Practice and its Institutions'' from the
University of South Australia. Dearman also conducts academic research into analogue photography and contemporary art, which he sees as forming part of his art practice. He lectures at
Adelaide Central School of Art
Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Adelaide, Australia. Adelaide Central School of Art uses the atelier model of visual arts ...
.
Artistic style and subject
Although Dearman began as sculptor, he moved into photography and now uses vintage and antique cameras and vintage photographic techniques, along with found photographs and films to create his artworks. Dearman makes cameras and has also built a portable darkroom (dubbed the ‘Beasty’).
Bibliography
Works by Dearman:
* 2004/5. A Box of Tea
''Vitamin'', Episode Three November/December/January, pp. 14-15* 2008.
Art practice and governmentality: the role modelling effects of contemporary art practice and its institutions'.
* 2008. 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.’ Performing disjunct memory through an early 20th century Danish family photo album—in early 21st century South Australia. ''
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* 2011. Working (with) the Dead: Agency and its Absence in the Use of the Found Image
''Colloquy'' 22
* 2016
The Green Room: Nazia Ejaz
Further reading
* Kimber, Mark. Processing the past: Contemporary photomedia in South Australia. ''Art Monthly Australia'', no.274, October 2014, pp. 20–23.
References
External links
* Video
Andrew Dearman ''Disappearance 2015''* Video
Around Again final
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Living people
Artists from South Australia
Australian contemporary artists
Australian photographers
Photographers from Adelaide
20th-century Australian artists
21st-century Australian artists
Australian art teachers
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of South Australia alumni