Max
Durham
About
A Son of Sieve is a somewhat transgressive abstract film, 6 minutes in duration, accompanied by an unusual electronic audio. The contemporary art piece features myself/the artist in a dress exploring a burnt forest at night. The film is to be displayed on a screen. I titled the artwork A Son of Sieve as homage to my inspiration from Peter Carey’s 2000 novel True History of the Kelly Gang which features a concept based on the tradition of ritual cross-dressing as a protest. My artwork comments on the internal power of toxic masculinity and masculine fragility.
Bio
Born in 2000, Max Durham grew up in Kuring-gai/Sydney (Australia). A white male of a middle-class family, he obviously had to create his own problems. Lover of art and music, and anything to express creativity.