Gerwyn Davies: Fur

A hyper-real show that's worth the hype.
Lucy McNabb
February 12, 2018

Overview

If you like your photography fun, feathered and furry, you should definitely make a beeline for contemporary photographer Gerwyn Davies' new solo show FUR at ACP this month.

The Darwin-born, Brisbane-based artist is known for his playful, intoxicatingly colourful penchant for elevating the everyday to the hyper-real. Inspired by American gothic fiction, AFL and primary-coloured plastics (think a Porpoise Spit pool party meets a sugar-filled $2 store stationary binge) Davies says: "Combining photographic self-portraiture and costume making, my work is an ongoing inventory of selves that are assembled, worn and performed for the camera." FUR promises to both visually delight and to joyfully expand the possibilities of photographic self-representation.

Hot tip: Davies has a residency in the Project Space Gallery February 19–23 during the build up to Mardi Gras, so if you want some fabulous, stop-traffic costume ideas (and tips on how to best make them), you're welcome to pay him a visit.

Image: Gerwyn-Davies, Narcissus, 2017.

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