Keeping Up Appearances - 2006

Artist Statement:
Keeping Up Appearances deals with contemporary anxieties, it references both political crises and human frailty. It is about those fragments in time when all is not as it seems – at once all that seemed safe now threatens.
Investigating emotional connections to environment, physical vulnerability, and fear this work offers contemplative juxtapositions of the duality of life; cause and effect, joy and sadness, life and death, self and the other. Its juxtapositions offer the comparative refuge of nature, while prodding the viewer to question the relationships that may (not) exist.
It emphasizes the uncomfortable and fleeting positions we often find ourselves negotiating and allows the impossible – time to examine, calculate and hypothesize answers.

This work was exhibited as part of Undercurrent 07 at the Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia and also at the Queensland Centre for Photography in 2007.

The Homogeny of Desire Type C Print 50 x 90 cms Edition of 5

The Submission Type C Print 50 x 90 cms Edition of 5

We Watch in Waiting Type C Print 50 x 90 cms Edition of 5

The Fear Series - 2005

Gregory Ackland’s series "Fear" deals with themes of fear, identity, isolation, survival and belonging. He creates confronting images where there is no clear order of events, or explanation for these situations. His figures are stripped of individual identity and left in a state of limbo, a flux, a non-space in both time and position. These works are journeys without destination, events without outcome, and occupy the intervals between points of departure and arrival. This body of work was selected for the Hatched ’05 : National Graduate Exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia.

Instruct. Type C Print. 60 x 80 cms. Edition of 5.

Return. Type C Print. 60 x 80 cms. Edition of 5.

Stationary. Type C Print. 60 x 80 cms. Edition of 5.

Vacant. Type C Print. 60 x 80 cms. Edition of 5.

Waiting. Type C Print. 60 x 80 cms. Edition of 5.

Welcome

Gregory Ackland is Studio Head of Photography and Digital Media at Adelaide Centre for the Arts, South Australia, Australia.