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}}</ref>[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/46.1979/] Known for documenting the counter-culture spirit and emergent feminist movement of [[Melbourne]] in the 1970s, her work has been compared to that of internationally known Americans [[Larry Clark]] and [[Nan Goldin]], and fellow Australian William Yang.<ref>King, Natalie, 1966- & Heide Museum of Modern Art (2010). ''Up close : Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang''. Heide Museum of Modern Art : Schwartz Media, Melbourne</ref> |
}}</ref>[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/46.1979/] Known for documenting the counter-culture spirit and emergent feminist movement of [[Melbourne]] in the 1970s, her work has been compared to that of internationally known Americans [[Larry Clark]] and [[Nan Goldin]], and fellow Australian William Yang.<ref>King, Natalie, 1966- & Heide Museum of Modern Art (2010). ''Up close : Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang''. Heide Museum of Modern Art : Schwartz Media, Melbourne</ref> |
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==Early Life== |
==Early Life== |
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Revision as of 06:52, 16 December 2015
Carol Jerrems | |
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 Carol Jerrems photographed by Rennie Ellis at Brummell Gallery in 1975 | |
| Born | 14 March 1949 Ivanhoe, Melbourne |
| Died | 21 February 1980 (aged 30) Prahran, Melbourne |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Photographer |
Carol Jerrems (1949–1980) was an Australian photographer whose work spans documentary and autobiographical imagery as exemplified in herVale Street.[1][2][1] Known for documenting the counter-culture spirit and emergent feminist movement of Melbourne in the 1970s, her work has been compared to that of internationally known Americans Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, and fellow Australian William Yang.[3]
Early Life
Jerrems was born on 14 March 1949 at Ivanhoe,Melbourne[1][2] the third child of Victorian-born parents Eric Alfred Jerrems (1917-1970), an accountant, and Joyce Mary (a.k.a. Joy) neé Jacobs, (1922-1993), seamstress and artist. She attended (1955-60) Ivanhoe Primary School and Heidelberg High School (1961-66) and went on in 1967 to complete a Diploma of Art and Design, majoring in Photography, in the newly established photography course established at Prahran Technical School, where she was taught by cinematographer Paul Cox and acted in his film ‘’Skin Deep’’.[4] During her studies she was awarded the Walter Lindrum Scholarship, the Institute of Australian Photographers Award, and First Prize in the Kodak Students Photographic Competition.
Having graduated from Prahran Technical School, Jerrems undertook a Diploma of Education at Hawthorn State College, Melbourne.
Career
In 1971, National Gallery of Victoria curator Jennie Boddington (from 1972 director of the first Department of Photography in any Australian public gallery) acquired Jerrems’ work for the collection.[5]
She remained close to Paul Cox, appearing in his ‘’The Journey’’ (1972), and to fellow Prahran College ex-students lan Macrae and Robert Ashton, with whom she shared a house in St. Kilda. She also formed a friendship with the fashion photographer Henry Talbot, then at the pinnacle of his career, posing for him and forming a collaboration so successful that when Australia’s first stand-alone photography gallery Brummels is opened by Rennie Ellis and Robert Ashton above a cafe at 95 Toorak Road, South Yarra, the inaugural exhibition is "Two Views of Erotica: Henry Talbot/Carol Jerrems” (14 December 1972 – 21 January 1973).[6] Talbot invited her to teach photography with him at the Preston Institute and in 1975 she also began teaching photography, filmmaking and yoga at Coburg Technical School, Melbourne.
When Jerrems started teaching at Heidelberg Technical School, she befriended its disadvantaged students, some who were members of sharpie gangs, whom she photographed and filmed in nearby Banyule Reserve on the Yarra River. Series of these images were published in the quarterly ‘’Circus’’, amongst the increasing number of commissions and publications secured through her widening networks in cinema, theatre, music and women's liberationist and aboriginal communities.
These successes brought her, in 1974, an exhibition The Alphabet Folio at the National Gallery of Victoria, and inclusion in a book published by the newly formed Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.[7] She published ‘’A Book About Australian Women’’[8] prompted by the upcoming International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, also exhibiting 32 works-in-progress from this series at Brummell's (1974). Moving in 1975 to Sydney to live with her boyfriend, filmmaker Esben Storm, she taught at Hornsby and Meadowbank Technical Colleges, and shared a house with actress Kate Grenville.
In Sydney Jerrems exhibited solo and conducted workshops at the ACP, and later showed at Hogarth Gallery, then with Christine Godden, Christine Cornish and Jenny Aitken in "Four Australian Women" at the Photographers’ Gallery in South Yarra, Melbourne (18 May–11 June 1978), and with Roderick McNicol at Pentax Brummels Gallery of Photography from 93 August–3 September 1978). Another solo exhibition at the ACP followed in November that included photographs from her series Thirty—eight Buick (1976) and Sharpies (1976) and meanwhile, Jerrems completed her film ‘Hanging About’.
In 1979 Jerrems began teaching at the School of Art in the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart, but was admitted to hospital on June 12 suffering Budd–Chiari syndrome. Despite the painful condition, she worked on a photo-diary of her prolonged stay in Royal Hobart Hospital then traveled to Sydney that August to contribute to the Visual Arts Board photography assessment panel for the Australia Council. However, on 19 November she was admitted again to hospital in Melbourne. She died Thursday 21 February at the Alfred Hospital.
Recognition
Carol Jerrems life and work is partly described in the documentary Girl in a mirror (2005)[9] and her work is achieving increasing recognition through exhibitions and screenings of her films. Her photographs and negatives are archived at the National Gallery of Australia.
Jerrems was among the photographers included in Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s – 1970s, a group retrospective held in 2010 at the Art Gallery Of South Australia. Her work was also represented in an Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales entitled "What's in a face? aspects of portrait photography" held from December 2011 to February 2012.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Jerrems, Carol Joyce (1949 - 1980)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Archived from the original on 10 May 2009.
- ^ a b Peter Wilmoth (17 July 2005). "The '70s stripped bare". The Age. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009.
- ^ King, Natalie, 1966- & Heide Museum of Modern Art (2010). Up close : Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang. Heide Museum of Modern Art : Schwartz Media, Melbourne
- ^ Cox, Paul, 1940- & Illumination Films (Australia) & Contemporary Arts Media (Firm) (2011). Paul Cox early work: short films 1965-1980. Distributed by Contemporary Arts Media, South Melbourne, Vic
- ^ Crombie, I., ‘Introduction’, In 2nd Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, p. 9.
- ^ ”The Jerrems pictures are all intensely personal, and they have a youthful evocative quality”; Beatrice Faust, "Erotica", Nation Review, 15-22 December 1972, p. 288.
- ^ Australian Centre for Photography & Howe, Graham, 1950- (1974). New photography Australia : a selective survey. The Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, N.S.W,
- ^ Jerrems, Carol & Fraser, Virginia, 1947-, (ed.) (1974). A book about Australian women. Outback Press, North Fitzroy, Vic
- ^ Bowden, Helen & Drayton, Kathy & Film Finance Corporation Australia (2005). Girl in a mirror a portrait of Carol Jerrems. Film Finance Corporation Australia Ltd & Toi-Toi Films Pty Ltd, [N.S.W.]
- ^ AGNSW description of exhibition
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