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FIRST PRIZE	"Dupes are Real Winners"
Congratulations to James Heriot This photo was taken by James at a portrait workshop conducted by the "Ipswich Photographic Society" and has gained FIRST PRIZE at the Western Districts National Exhibition of Photography. For entry at the National Exhibition James had his slides "Duplicated" here at Spectrum. "For some time, says James, I have been told that the only way to get awards with slides is to use the originals. Well I think in this case anyway, the critics have been proved wrong"
You can e-mail James at jlheriot@optusnet.com.au

My interest in photography began at high school when I was about 13 years old. During this time I did more photography than school work with the aim of being accepted in Queensland College of Art after high school. Fortunately I was successful and went onto complete my Bachelor of Photography degree majoring in Creative Advertising in 1998. During my undergraduate studies at QCA I found myself becoming more and more interested in Photographic Art Practice and went on to complete my Honours Studies in this area. This time really helped to consolidate my ideas and interests and also work out where my practice was heading. In 2001 I was chosen as the Jeleni Studio Artist in Residence at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague the Czech Republic. This 2 month residency gave me the opportunity to explore the Baroque, which has become quite an obsession in my photography. Since then I have been exhibiting both locally and nationally and this year I was in my first international exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.
I am interested in how people relate to the societies or environments they inhabit, and specifically I have been exploring the historical construction of female identity, the fallen woman, sexuality and ideals. I am drawn to the excess, opulence and decay of the Baroque era and how the woman was shaped by specific factors of the time such as the family and church. The dichotomies prevalent in Baroque ideals and concerns such as eroticism and religion, the sacred and profane, allegory and realism, coupled with a sense of the spectacle and performative have provided a rich setting for the development of the contemporary female characters produced in my visual work.
In my photo media practice I often work in large scale Ilfochromes (Cibachromes), in a diptych or >>>

Original Photography: Sharon Green Original Image 6x6 Transparency, reproduced on Ilfochrome Super Glossy (1 of 8 images) 1000 mm x 1000 mm

>>> triptych format with the aim of suggesting a loose narrative at play. I aim to seduce the viewer into the story whereby then they can draw on their own personal experiences to realize the story, outcome or characters. This also poses the question of whether expectations have changed or have stayed the same, perhaps disguised by drawing comparisons between contemporary and historical lives. The use of the photographic medium in narrative works challenges the pre existing (although changing) learned notion that photography depicts the truth. As my works are all staged scenarios that I have constructed, the question of truth becomes more potent, confused and ultimately questioned.
Currently I am teaching at Queensland College of Art in the Photography Department. I am also working towards an exhibition titled 'The Lonely Empire' which will be presented at the Institute of Modern Art in September.