The Big Prawn, Ballina by Trent Mitchell

Details

Retail price for the framed work is for pick-up from NERAM, Armidale. Shipping Australia-wide can be arranged and will be invoiced separately.

Year: 2024

Medium: Archival giclee print

Framed size: Size 91x62cm

Description 

From the series and photo book ‘Australian Lustre’. In this photo collection, photographer Trent Mitchell travels around the country, drawing links with the idyllic holidays of his childhood, contemplating the notions of time and memory, and exploring where we belong in this, at times, strange place we call home.

Biography

Trent Mitchell was born in 1979 and has been photographing for over two decade. Mitchell has a narrative approach to his work, focusing on the environment in the broadest possible sense. Although best known for his water photography, Mitchell has also gained a reputation for his wry yet sensitive take on the manmade world, zeroing in on its various idiosyncrasies and contradictions. On both personal and assigned projects, his work is identified by an ability to not only compose his subject but distill the sensibility of the location and give a connection to place.

Working across digital and film, in both black and white and colour with a background in art direction, design and publishing, Mitchell has received wide recognition internationally. Mitchell won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize in 2015, and has been a finalist for the award over a number of years. He has also been featured in, among others, the International Photography Awards, Sony World Photography Awards, Head On and Australian Life Photographic Prize. His work has been acquired for many public and private collections, including the National Library of Australia.

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