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Jacqueline Donchi was born in Echuca, Victoria in 1977
and moved to Melbourne in 1995 to study new media, film
and visual arts at Swinburne Art College in Prahran. Here
she discovered black and white photography while taking
stills of her associate's short films and abstract portraits
of her housemates in StKilda. After completing additional
diplomas in advanced screenwriting (RMIT), children's book
writing (ACJ) and professional journalism (ACJ) she worked
as a freelance story editor, theatre assistant, music journalist,
screenwriter and stylist. She decided to meld all visual
and literary
disciplines with story-based portrait photography in 2006
after a solo trip overseas allowed her to test a recently
acquired second-hand camera for two weeks without interruption.
After studying at ICPP in South Melbourne in 2006 and more
recently at NMIT Photography College, she worked alongside
Kristian Gehradte, David White and Ivan Lee. She developed
a distinct style within a short amount of time, evidenced
in her thousands of affecting warehouse portraits taken
of the friends she made in Fitzroy North in 2007. She has
published calendars, slides and her photographs have been
featured in an array of Australian publications and music
websites. Her primary photographic influences include "the
usual suspects," David Lachapelle, Gregory Crewdson,
Robert Doisneau, Patricia Piccinini, Ellen von Unwerth and Stéphane Sednaoui. In this series, she worked with performance artist,
Carla Yamine (best known for her work in Town Bikes) who
devised a flamboyant, socio-idealistic character by the
name of Jules Dunk to highlight her ongoing agonies with
the Howard government. Carla's penchant for the b-grade
horror aesthetic coupled with her alter-ego's self-styled
fluorescent green and-gold confidence created a fascinating
basis for a photographic collaboration with Jacqueline.
At artbytegallery, we see
the product of this collaboration with a mottled narrative
of digital collages and photographic portraits.
See also:
Folio Website
Online Journal
+ jacqueline donchi
+ 61 3 94891210 + 61 0416 189 215
+ 672 nicholson st north fitzroy vic australia 3068
List of Works:
Green Gold: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Girl Scout: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Pests: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Constance Carol: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Young Elders: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print,16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Wavering: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print,16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Saucepots: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Four + Twenty: $800 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
Souvenir: $890 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
White Indian: $890 (editioned) :
metallic photographic print, 16.5 inch x 23.4 inch mounts
NATIONAL SAUCE Character and concept devised by
CARLA YAMINE
Carla Yamine studied classical ballet, jazz, tap and drama
from the age of 3 at a
suburban ballet school in Sydney, featuring in a great many
performances in public
arenas (including cheesy pantomimes and dance shows in a
plethora of shopping centres)
from 1978-1990. Carla assumed tertiary studies at the University
of New South Wales
(College of Fine Arts) where she completed a degree in Fine
Arts specializing in
Performance and Multi-media computing. Moving to Melbourne
in 1997, Carla met
like-minded creatures appearing in a plethora of theatrical
productions and short films
and furthering her performance studies. Establishing ‘The
Town Bikes’ with Miss Gabi
Barton, the pair soon embarked upon numerous performance
seasons nationally and
internationally including five seasons of cult sensation
‘The Burlesque Hour’. Carla has
toured the USA, UK and Europe performing.
Carla's main interest as a performer is to create provocative
stylised drama through the
articulation of polarities such as: the ‘common’
vs. the monumental, the poignant vs.
the flippant and the cheesy vs. the macabre. She enjoys
expressing an abstract sense of
humour through the conduit of a human caricature. Aesthetic
influences include B-grade
horror films, high camp, German expressionistic cabaret,
the observation of the society
and the vernacular.
Carla intermittently inhabits the persona of Ms Julie Dunk
– a shopping centre
entertainer with strident political aspirations. Julie Dunk
is currently preparing her
candidacy to contest the seat of Melbourne in the upcoming
Federal election.
Julie hopes to win your support. Add her at myspace. http://www.myspace.com/juliedunk
Carla Yamine
+61 (0) 425 706 915
www.thetownbikes.com
http://www.myspace.com/carlayamine
PO Box 1430
North Fitzroy
Melbourne, Australia
VIC 3068
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