Carol Jerrems was an Australian photographer who was born in 1949. This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services (Carol Jerrems, A Book About Australian Women) I n 1973, Carol Jerrems photographed a little girl, Caroline Slade, at her fourth birthday party in Toorak. Join the list for early access.
(http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jerrems-carol-joyce-10625). (Photograph by Richard Kendall.).
She is a correspondent for Flash Art International and contributes to Art Asia Pacific, Art and Australia, Artlink, and Art Monthly.
Standing coyly with hands clasped, she stares at the camera, head tilted. She was guest editor (with Virginia Fraser) of Artlink on Surveillance. Social Networks and Archival Context. The photographs of Carol Jerrems embody the seventies in Australia, a decade defined by its challenges to convention, morality and social order. By the mid 1970s, Jerrems deployed a directorial role, increasingly posing her sitters and insinuating fictional relationships. [email protected] | Contact webmanager, Subscribe to the NGA’s Enews She was the curator and editor of Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2010. Love is the key word. Jerrems purposefully placed Caroline Slade as the first arresting image for her only publication, A Book About Australian Women, a compendium of 131 portraits of women dating from 1968 to 1974. Her portraits of friends, associates and students were unstaged and uncontrived, taken in available light in the backyards and bedrooms of her subjects. Her portraits of friends, associates and students were unstaged and uncontrived, taken in available light in the backyards and bedrooms of her subjects. Preoccupied by subcultures or marginal groups, she found ways to infiltrate these communities and to capture pockets of life in the world of film-makers, photographers, and other creators living in group houses during the 1970s, as well as sharpies whom she taught at Heidelberg Technical School. She taught at colleges in Melbourne and Sydney and at the School of Art in Hobart and her photographs of her students, such as Mark and Flappers 1975, explore the expression and culture of adolescent masculinity. She died in Melbourne in 1980. There, she developed debilitating physical symptoms that were eventually diagnosed as a rare liver disease. Carol Jerrems's gritty, poetic and elusive images show people trying to find a new way of life and action in the 1970s.
Isolated from her coterie of friends and family, Jerrems’s self-portraits were sent to Sydney for processing by her friend, Roger Scott. Here, Jerrems displays her compositional flair, evident in the decorative synergy between foreground and background.
This was one of the first feminist photography books to be produced in Australia, featuring portraits of, and interviews with, artists, activists, revolutionaries and role models of the feminist movement. ...Jerrems' life and work is partly described in the documentary Girl in a Mirror (2005) and her work is achieving increasing recognition through exhibitions and screenings of her films. Parkes Place, Parkes ACT 2600 +61 2 6240 6411 Against this buoyant optimism, Jerrems flexed her lens on women from all walks of life including ‘women’s liberationists, Aboriginal spokeswomen, activists, revolutionaries, teachers, students, drop-outs’. Her images have come to define a decade in Australia's history. And then share it. Standing coyly with hands clasped, she stares at the camera, head tilted. (Carol Jerrems, A Book About Australian Women).
© 2020 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Biography written and edited by Dr Nicola Teffer in collaboration with NGA curatorial and research staff as part of Know My Name. Jerrems’s short, compressed career includes numerous self-portraits with mirrors, posing and reflecting herself with intimate ease, but it is this final image of a young photographer on the brink of death that continues to haunt us. Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions. Known for documenting the revolutionary spirit of sub-cultures including that of indigenous Australians, disaffected youth, and the emergent feminist movement of Melbourne in the 1970s, her work has been compared to that of internationally known Americans Larry Clark–of a slightly older generation–and Nan Goldin, as well as fellow Australian William Yang. The intersectional project featured Aboriginal activists and artists such as Roberta Sykes and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (then known as Kath Walker) and the sportswoman Evonne Goolagong. Background.
We haven't opened yet, but somehow you found us. Her images have come to define a decade in Australia's history. Lynn (1976) continues Jerrems’s depiction of single portraits of women who are assertively positioned in the centre of the photographic frame, gazing directly at the camera. SNAC is a discovery service for persons, families, and organizations found within archival collections at cultural heritage institutions. For Jerrems, photography had a crucial social role: 'the society is sick and I must help change it'. Biographie. Her pleated, patterned frock and white tights meld with the floral wallpaper background. She has interviewed numerous artists including Ai Wei Wei, Joseph Kosuth, Tacita Dean, Anastasia Klose, Kathy Temin, and Bill Henson.
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