Castlemaine-born lens-based artist, Lucy Foster, is featuring her work ‘Self-Timer’, as part of PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography at Blindside’s group exhibition ‘The Portrait’, curated by Karl Halliday and Josephine Meade.
Locals catch Lucy’s work in an exhibition now on at Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space (CASPA).
In her video, Lucy captures a series of 10 self-portraits on two devices (an analogue film camera and a digital camera) dressed in different clothing and posing in different scenes.
The clothes worn by Lucy belong to her late mother Judy, who died a few months prior to the start of the project, and the scenes are captured in her home where she spent the final years, weeks, and days.
Judy was an avid op-shopper, sewer, and assembler of quirky things.
“She expressed herself through clothes, cooking, and decorating the home; there was no particular style, trend, or a recipe she followed,” Lucy said.
“My understanding of her expression was to be driven by emotion. A spontaneous response to the present moment.
“Amidst all the things she left behind, I found a letter she had written to her Mum (my Nonna) not long after she had passed away. It read:
Dear Mum, thought about you again today. Hope it’s fun being in Heaven. I miss you and just wanted to say that since you have gone I have had terrible trouble trying to find something to wear.”
Self-Timer will be on display at Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space (CASPA) Hargraves Street Castlemaine (above Stonemans Bookroom) until November 26.
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