Instagram and iphone photographs

 I have a few cameras, film, digital, full frame and the trusty i-phone.

On Instagram I tend to share a lot of my i-phone images, here are some of them.

 

all work copyright Matthew Schiavello 2021.

Exhibition rescheduled due to lockdown. we have new dates! 22nd July - 8th of August 2021

 

Due to COVID lockdown here, the exhibition was postponed.

Exhibiton?

Yes, the collaborative show with the wonderful Beverley Southcott from Adelaide:

Title: Southcott x Schiavello.

Where: Tinning Street Presents:

              Lot 5/29 Tinning Street

              Brunswick (VIC) 3056

              Enter via Ilhan Lane.

https://www.tinningstreetpresents.com/

 

When: Opening- Thursday 22nd July, 6-8pm

             Then on till 8th August

             The gallery is open daily Thursday - Sunday,  from 11am - 5pm.

 

Hope to see you there.

 

 

The art of self portraits and AI interpretation.

I stumbled across an AI program which transforms any photo of you into art. Some of the results were awesome and some were... well... crap. 

The website is: https://ai-art.tokyo/en/

I have no idea about its safety etc..so keep that in mind.

 I should point out that I have a good mate, whom I often send terrible and ugly selfies of myself.. as it not only makes him laugh, but it also irritates him...some of these have been 'interpreted' below.

Here are some of the hits and... misses of the AI program and my selfies.

This image was the AI's interpretation of of this image:

 

 

 

 

This last one (which I love especially with it's one tine creepy eye) was the AI's interpretation of this below photo (I was showing my mate that my jumper was now beyond repair, as I had mended it several times already):

 

 All images copyright matthew schiavello and the AI 2020.

 

 

After Alex... (New Years Eve 2019, NYC . 9412)

After Alex... (New Years Eve 2019, NYC . 9412)

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You pointed out the light as we went on a walk that afternoon.
Which is why I name this 'after' you.
You stopped at every place I asked you to and never looked bored, nor were impatient.
It was the last day of the year.
We were invited to a party, but I said that I preferred to just be with you.
You smiled in agreeance as we headed back to your place and ordered in.
We drank to celebrate life and us.
I tried to keep up with you, and ended up on the bathroom floor at 3am.
I should have known better.
It was a good reminder to be myself when I am with you.
It was a good reminder that I don't need to impress you,
as you accept and love me just as I am,
as I do you.
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We woke up together on New Days day.
I felt the luckiest person in the world.
Not because I didn't have a hangover,
But because you had your arms around me.
We lay in bed for ages
just being with each other.

It was the perfect start to a new year.

copyright matthew schiavello 2020

mixed media experiments

Back in 2016 I had been experimenting with acrylic, ink and cutting them up and rearranging them... here are some of the things I had done and forgotten about!:

all images copyright matthew schiavello

upcoming exhibition. 'X'. a collaboration.

Please mark Friday the 30th into your social diary.

'X' is a exciting collaboration between artist TomboyBill and myself. It is a captivating merge of experimental photography and painting. The works have been called thoughtful and accessible, and said to have an exciting playfulness about them.

The opening is Friday the 30th August from 6-9pm. Come and say hello.

The show runs from the 29th of August, until the 12th of September at - Off the Kerb Gallery, 66B Johnston St, Collingwood. The gallery is open Thursdays- Sundays only. more info: www.offthekerb.com.au

artist websites:
www.tomboybill.com & www.matthewschiavello.com

Setting up for the exhibition:

 

Experiments on 35mm film

I have been experimenting with 35mm film.
It started with someone gifting me two rolls of film, one roll soaked in vodka, and one soaked in window cleaner. I shot these and loved the effect. I then found out about boiling (and freezing film).

here are some of my boiled films (some have been 'inverted' (colours reversed)):

all images copyright matthew schiavello 2019

35mm Film

I have been busy working away on photography, both digital and analog photography.

Here is some recent 35mm film photography, I had scanned in.


AK and I, exploring (#19).
Ilford FP4 plus, 35mm film. 
Taken in mid 2017.

AK and I, exploring the city.
Kodak Gold 200, 35mm film. 
Taken in late 2017.

These next ones are triple exposures, where I took three images, one over the other (all in camera). Crop and post editing processing (slight tweaking) done on the computer.


April 2018 Image #02
(Positive version)
Camera: Nikon FM10
Lens: AI Micro-Nikkor 1:2.8 55m
Film: Kodak Portra 160

April 2018 Image #4

Not sure what happened here, but my 35mm scanner can't seem to handle too much saturated color in film negatives and sometimes does weird, unexpected things.

Camera: Nikon FM10
Lens: AI Micro-Nikkor 1:2.8 55m
Film: Kodak Portra 160

April 2018 Image #8
Camera: Nikon FM10
Lens: AI Micro-Nikkor 1:2.8 55m
Film: Kodak Portra 160

April 2018 Image #68
(Positive version)
Camera: Nikon FM10
Lens: AI Micro-Nikkor 1:2.8 55m
Film: Kodak Portra 160
 

all work, copyright matthew schiavello 2018

Working away

A friend recently asked if I was in a creative slump as he hadn't seen much output from me.
I smiled and told him that I am busy working away, creating new work and exploring new mediums (I am also posting regularly on instagram, Ello and tumblr).

I have taken so many photos, that I am still slowly working my way through images I captured at the start of 2017, as well as working my way through mixed-media pieces I created in 2015 & 2016!

Here are some things I have been working on recently.
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"Middle age, an autoportrait. Also known as- trying out my old 20mm film lens, on my full frame camera."  I took this as i decided to brush the cobwebs of an old 20mm film lens I had. This image is only from a few weeks ago.
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‘A poppy′
140117.
This image was from January 2017. This one has been flipped upside down.

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Country landscape  #330
311216.
This was taken somewhere near the South Australian/Victorian border as we drove home from an interstate holiday in Adelaide over Christmas 2016.

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Yellow Lines  #22 171016 . Taken in October 2016, somewhere in the city of Melbourne.
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Twilight over the Macedon Ranges #46 
141017.  Taken in October 2017. I took a series of these images, there is something so lovely about wide country vistas and twilight.
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‘What makes me a man? #113 190217′
“I lie about the size of my cock. I say it is much bigger than it is, it makes me feel like I am more of a man, stronger, more powerful.”

This piece from a series in Feb 2017,  aims to explore aspects of toxic masculinity. .

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The agony of non-acceptance (v).  From a conceptual series taken in February 2017.
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Self Portrait #11 170417  . A self portrait taken in April 2017.
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'cock iii'
(for the Laird's art comp)

Acrylic and graphite on paper. 2017. I completed three works for a gay art comp.
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Seminal works Outtake
‘Seminal works #02 070116′.  An outtake from the Seminal works series.  Scanned experimental work with Semen, ink and watercolour. The project catalogue, which talks about the project in depth can be downloaded  from this page: https://www.matthewschiavello.com/other-projects/

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Spit #07  130316  . Scanned experimental works, using Spit (Saliva), watercolor and Ink.
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‘The Leanover (in red, white and yellow’)', 2018. 20 x20 inches.. acrylic and graphite on canvas. Self framed.( i-phone photograph)
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all work, copyright matthew schiavello 2018