Tom & Lola – Last Summer Days – In the Shade of the Tortured Willow, by Julian Kingma

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.

Retail price for unframed prints already includes shipping Australia-wide.

Year: 2024

Size: 119 x 85cm

Medium: Lustre inkjet glicee

Description

Last Summer Days – In The Shade Of The Tortured Willow – is an ongoing autobiographical meditation on life, loss & death (plus one hell of a mental breakdown).

An existential visual deep dive into my fear of mortality, time.. and its inevitable passing. An attempt to reengage with life and freeze the abstract, the beautiful, the small things. Things I have left behind and the regret that has followed.

Tom & Lola, my niece & nephew, are a small part of this process – it’s an unspoken collaboration.

I never expected my heart and mind to break in two... but I'm glad they did.

Biography

Julian Kingma started as a newspaper cadet photographer in 1988. The thought of moving out of that space was totally foreign and a little terrifying. Since going freelance in 2003, Kingma has worked mainly for magazines. Kingma now finds himself in a precarious position within a shrinking print market and is now turning his practice towards fine art – equally terrifying. Kingma is fortunate to have been included in four group shows at NPG which has also resulted in a steady acquisition of his portraits in their permanent collection. He is currently working on his first monograph with a release in 2025.

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