Edwina Darling
About
Youth By Any Other Name is a series of photographic works which hide under the guise of being copies of iconic paintings. This work attempts to bring the subjects of the photographs into the human space by giving them human qualities of blood and breath; living in a space between the moving and the still image.
The work looks at humans relationship with transitions and the unknown, and their subsequent reactions. The two works act as two ends of the spectrum, from the passive to the consumed. Despite this binary one thing remains in common for this work, the familiar undercurrent that something is not quite right.
Bio
Edwina Darling is an emerging contemporary visual artist from Canberra who currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Edwina is a student at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney and is studying a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) specialising in photomedia and installation.
In her practice, Edwina works with both analogue and digital photographic processes and at times includes additions such as painting, sewing and physical manipulation to her photographic works to include movement. Driven by her own experiences and those around her, Edwina often explores the everyday mundane, human emotion and storytelling in her works, commenting on themes of growing older and living as a woman.
Edwina’s current works focus on the intersection of photographic stills and moving pictures, looking specifically at the physicality of human emotion.