The Samstag Alumni
The 1999 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Peter Alwast | Stephen Bram | Kristian Burford | Nicholas Folland | Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren
Deborah Paauwe, who looks to New York City as her next Mecca, throws Kristian Burford's peeping tom perspective into relief with her highly personal surveillance of family photographs. Photography, after all, is burdened with the surreptitious posture of voyeurism and in Paauwe's case, the step toward public scrutiny of her mother's photo album achieves a pop patois of hidden Chinese identity.
In works like Blue Tights or, From the Waist Down, photography capitulates to Paauwe's personal iconography of Australasian identity. It isolates rather than integrates signs of unspoken family memories. Paauwe says it frames an experience never had "first hand." She and we know that photographs are not the only things that lie.
M.A. Greenstein
from her Samstag catalogue essay;
Back to the Future - From Wry to Rave
| Deborah Paauwe Born 1972, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| 1999 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK |
| 1995 | Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts), University of South Australia, Adelaide |
| 1994 | Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
Blue Tights 1998
C type photograph
75 x 75 cm
© the artist
From the Waist Down 1998
C type photograph
75 x 75 cm
© the artist