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Susan Fereday is an Australian artist, writer, curator and educator. She holds a doctorate from Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

, Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

Art Practice

Susan Fereday uses a range of media, including digital and analogue photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

, installation

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, video, light and shadow. She is best known for her ‘post-photographic’ installations in which simple materials (papier-mâché spheres, glass bowls and goblets, light and shadow) are employed to invoke the logic of photography without the use of traditional photographic means. She also exhibits found photographs, such as the series Under a Steel Sky, in which her collection of amateur snapshots from the 1950s resembles Robert Frank’s

Robert Frank

Robert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...

series, The Americans
The Americans (photography)
The Americans, by Robert Frank, was a highly influential book in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society...

. Susan Fereday is represented by Sarah Scout gallery, Melbourne.

Research

Fereday’s research and writing is mainly around theories of photography. Her doctoral thesis, Light Out of Darkness: the origin of photography in mystery and melancholy, explored occluded meanings in the early photographs of Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.He is most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825...

and William Henry Fox Talbot.

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