Lorena Carrington
Lorena has been a practicing artist and professional photographer for more than 10 years. She lives and works in Castlemaine, Victoria, and is happy to be able to weave her love for photography, design and writing into her professional and personal life. Her daughters, born in 2003 and 2005, despite leaving two child sized gaps in her CV, have influenced her practice for the better.
Lorena Carrington uses digital techniques to montage her photographs, creating layered images that aim to occupy the veiled place between our world and 'the other'. The other place may reside for some through the looking glass, in the nostalgic magic of myths and fairy tales, in scientific wonder, or in something as fleeting as a sense of poignancy in a brief human connection. The sudden glimpse of that place pierces us, and draws a tingling thread through our being. It is the goose-bump moment, when suddenly our sense of the world shifts momentarily, almost imperceptibly, and makes us pause.
Lorena's Willow Pattern photographs explore the nostalgia many of us feel around the design that lives somewhere in the cupboards of the most long-occupied houses, and break though the flat plate to the mythical world behind. They also question the very English construct of the Chinese myth that supposedly influenced the original pattern.
Silhouettes play a vital part in Lorena's Fairy Tale works, referencing early illustrations and pressing her subjects into a restricted plane. The perspective of the backgrounds are often tilted or upended, adding to a sense of irreality, and giving a shifting glimpse through the looking glass.
2011
Once I Went, in association with Castlemaine State Festival
2010
Fragments of Time, Togs Cafe and Gallery, Castlemaine
2002
Luz, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
2001
Reflection and Refraction: Light as Subject in Photography, La Trobe
University Bendigo (Honours Presentation)
Group
Exhibitions (Significant)
2011
Circle, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
2009
The Willow Pattern Revisited, in association with Castlemaine State
Festival
2000
Individuality, Convent Gallery, Daylesford
A Day In The Life Of Bendigo, Penfolds Gallery
Foyer Exhibition, Bethlehem Home for the Aged
Bendigo Works on Paper Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
1999
Bendigo Works on Paper Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
1998
Bendigo Works on Paper Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Commercial Work
Lorena has run her Photography Business solo and in partnership for more
than 10 years. Past and current clients include Bendigo Art Gallery,
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum, Sandhurst Football Club, Bendigo
Capital Theatre, Deakin University and many respected Australian
Artists. We specialise in fine reproduction for books, catalogues and
other print applications.
2001 - Celebrating the Diversity of the Photography
Image, International Science/Photography Conference. Paper Presented:
"The Perceptual Zone System." The paper explored the application of a
technical photographic system, the Zone System, to an aesthetic and
perceptual reading of the photograph.
2000 - Click 2 Photographic Exhibition, Bendigo Senior Secondary
College. Judged and opened the end of the year exhibited by year 11 & 12
VCE students.
2001 - BA Visual
Arts, Honours, La Trobe University Bendigo
1998-2000 - BA Visual Arts (with Distinction), La Trobe University
Bendigo.