Halcyon Days by Alex Frayne

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: Analogue film on fine art matte
Framed size:  75x75cm, edition 1/10

Description 

HALCYON DAYS is the latest image in an ongoing series I have been working on for a decade. The series documents the goings on at South Australian jetties. I'm fascinated by the intricate relationships that exist between the mainly youth-oriented groups who jump, laugh, flirt and revel in this very Australian form of social life. Bathed in sun and fearless towards my probing camera, this group from regional SA presented me with a portrait of those days we may deem in later life to be Halcyon. As I pressed the shutter, I fantasised that I had possessed that level of self-assuredness at that age, or any age for that matter.

Biography

Alex Frayne has been involved in film and images from his earliest school days. Beginning with an 8mm camera in hand, Frayne has continued his love affair with visual media ever since. His stills photography work has earned acclaim and his work is held in galleries including the National Portrait Gallery (two images in the Permanent Collection). Frayne shoots mainly analogue film formats, including 6x6cm, 6x9cm and 35mm formats. In 2023 his performance MUSIC FOR OTHER WORLDS had its world premiere at the prestigious Adelaide Festival of Arts.

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