The Artificial Kingdom - Carolyn Dew - Bendigo Art Gallery Exhibition

6 December 2014 - 8 February 2015
Through the inaugural Going Solo program, Carolyn Dew has developed a new body of work for an exhibition exclusive to Bendigo Art Gallery. Throughout her practice, Dew has explored ideas surrounding everyday personal and cultural practices expressed through domestic environments. With this latest photographic series Dew has delved into the creation of memorials in cemeteries in regional Victoria and further afield. Joyful, poignant and at times curious, Dew respectfully captures the permanent and transitional arrangements created by anonymous individuals as they construct environments for loved ones past.
Carolyn Dew is a contemporary photographer, who has studied photography at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Victorian College for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne and central Victoria.
Early in her career, Carolyn trained and worked as a preservation photographer within the public collections of the State Library of Victoria and Museum Victoria where photography was contextualised as a collective reflection of social and cultural history. After art school she also joined in the artist run collective movement and began curating small thematically linked exhibitions. These formative experiences continue to influence the work she makes and how it is presented.