2022 Center for Contemporary Photography Summer Salon

 

 

 

Flora #07, D Roll. Oct, 2022.
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Mutliple exposure on boiled Fuji C200 35mm film.
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This image is one of a few I have @ccp_australia in the current 2022 CCP Summer Salon. It is open til 18th Dec. The gallery is open Wed—Sun, 11—5. If you are in Fitzroy, go check it out and see not only my work (I have six pieces up), but all of the other wonderful works.

Spring days 2022 exhibition, and fundraiser for Sri Lanka.

 

I am really excited to be part of this special group show put together by @offthekerb . 

The exhibition ‘Spring days' runs from 8-22 September 2022. 

A portion of all sales goes to support those in Sri Lanka. 

My image (top of this post) 'Spring days 2022'. is a mixed media version of my image - Flora #31, July 2022. This was a Multiple exposure on Velvia 100, 35mm film. I then printed it on matte archival paper and used goauche and watercolur to tone down the distracting areas. It is framed and a unique piece. 

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 Lifted from @offthekerb 's insta post: . Bring your love and generosity to raise well needed funds to support the less privileged affected by the economic crisis in Sri Lanka!! 🇱🇰 

🔸️OPENING NIGHT: Saturday 10th Sept 6pm - 8pm 

🔸️EXHIBITION OPENED BY: @samantharatnam Leader of the Victorian Greens Party 

🔸️E-catalogue link to bio 👇🏽 http://www.offthekerb.com.au/exhibitions.htm 

🔹️CHARITIES SUPPORTED (through art sales): @palmeraprojects @thesoupbowlers 

 

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.

 

 

CCP Salon

 If you are in Melbourne, (Aus), I have a few (six) pieces in the CCP salon. Have a look online or go in and see the works in person. So many wonderful images.

I just found out that this small (4x5 inches), experimental piece of mine has sold.
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Title: 'Blended memory #2. From Swansea to Port Arthur, Tasmania (2019).'
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We travelled across the land, with the sea at one side. We talked about our past relationships, and of our hopeful future together. Some of the moments we shared are still vividly clear. Some have merged and are blended. While the trip itself has in most parts, become dreamlike, the feeling of hopefulness we shared, remains clear and strong.
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Delta 3200 film (Stacked and scanned).

 

 copyright matthew schiavello 2021.

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

More collaborations on 35mm film

I have been doing some swapping of film with people and really enjoying it. Essentially you shoot on a roll of film, wind it back and send it to another person to shoot over the top of. Obviously the next person has no idea what they are shooting over, hence the random fun and sometimes beautiful outcomes.

Here are some images from a collaboration with John Baxter Weekes in NSW. John decided to have the film cross processed when being developed, just for some extra randomness!
You can see more of John's work on his Ello page: https://ello.co/baxtus
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Collaboration: John Baxter Weekes (Australia) and Matthew Schiavello (Australia)

Double exposure (March 2019)

First Exposure - Matthew - Victoria, Australia.
Second Exposure - John - NSW, Australia.

Film:
AGFA Vista (Cross processed)

Post processing (including black and white conversions and inversions) - Matthew
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All works copyright of John Baxter Weekes and Matthew Schiavello 2019

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:

 

collaborations on 35mm film

I have been doing some swapping of film with people and really enjoying it. Essentially you shoot on a roll of film, wind it back and send it to another person to shoot over the top of. Obviously the next person has no idea what they are shooting over, hence the random fun and sometimes beautiful outcomes.

Here are some images from a collaboration with Kathryn in NSW.

Important details:

Collaboration: Kathryn (https://ello.co/dropshot) (Australia) and Matthew (https://ello.co/matthewschiavello) (Australia)

Double exposure.

First Exposure - Kathryn - Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia, July-August 2018.
Second Exposure - Matthew - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, August-Sept 2018.

Film:
AGFA CT Precisa 100 (soaked in Vodka and gifted by Walter,  https://ello.co/walter_ac)

Cameras:
Kathryn- Pentax ME Super with SMC Pentax macro 1:4/50 lens
Matthew - Nikon FM10 with Micro Nikkor 55mm 2.8 lens.

Post processing - Matthew

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′
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This image was from January 2017. This one has been flipped upside down.

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Country landscape  #330
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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