The Samstag Alumni
The 1997 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Zhong Chen | Rozalind Drummond | Julie Gough | Steven Holland | Lyndal Jefferies
Rozalind Drummond deploys photographic forms of representation in carefully staged, theatrical displays and installations, invoking psychological dimensions associated with voyeurism, a long-standing subject of her investigations.
Conventionally ascribed to morbid sexuality and the male gaze, voyeurism could be understood as the vicarious and compulsive observation of fellow humans as sexual objects, in which - often risking ignominy - the watcher typically remains distanced and unobserved, the object unselfconsciously natural and thus libidinous.
Curiously complicit with her subject and able to skilfully procure the erotic, Drummond nevertheless controls her material in such a way that the audience remains anxious and uncertain, suspending gratification. In Peeping Tom - inspired by British filmmaker Michael Powell - Drummond's found and then manipulated images of women are presented through characteristically sociopathic modes of voyeurism - surveillance, recording and collecting - in an oppressive forensic fiction which ultimately confronts the viewer.
Ross Wolfe
Director, Samstag Program
from the 1997 Samstag catalogue
Elephant Poo
| ROZALIND DRUMMOND Born 1955, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1997 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship Associate Research Student, Postgraduate Studies in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London |
| 1996 | Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 1986 | Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 1984 | Bachelor of Fine Art, Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia |
Peeping Tom 1995
toned, found black and white photograph
61 x 50.8 cm
from an installation at Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
© the artist
Peeping Tom 1995
black and white photograph
25.4 x 20.3 cm
from an installation at Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
© the artist
Peeping Tom - inventory 1995
80 found photographs, in one of three cabinets of found photographs
80 x 70 x 110 cm
from an installation at Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
© the artist