ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A series of paper negative images in hand made camera taken 2018-2019

AUTHOR
Bio

Chris Byrnes is a multi-disciplinary artist working predominantly investigating the photographic medium. With an attachment to the primal experience of the medium Chris utilises the pinhole photographic perspective, one which often results in images with a soft edge focus and unique-state framing. Extensive and continuing educational achievements include TAFE certificates in drawing, painting, museum and gallery studies, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Newcastle University and a Master Fine Art (Coursework) from the National Art School Sydney. Significant acknowledgment and recognition has been forged through being selected as a finalist in the Jennie Thomas Travelling Scholarship (Newcastle University), the Muswellbrook Photographic Prize, winning the Newcastle Emerging Artist (Photography), and obtaining funding for community artist projects such as Ribbons of Steel, the closure of BHP Newcastle. Chris has contributed to artist run initiatives such as Australian Centre for Photography, Newcastle Art Space Gallery, Newcastle Community Arts Centre and the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop Inc., continuing in the capacity as writer for the Newcastle Art Space Gallery Blogspot (past role). Research interests are the alternative and the hybrid analogue-digital intersections, the role of anachronistic practices within a contemporary framework and the position of the daguerreotype and tintype processes towards a contemporary - historical artefact. Through inventiveness and peer recognition, Chris’s work has been viewed across NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory, Hawaii, London, Barcelona and New York.

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