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October 22, 2010
Rebecca Shanahan, a photo-based artist, is Head of Photography at the National Art School (NAS) in Sydney. This is the oldest visual arts Institute in Australia, is an independent school, and offers fine art degrees with intensive studio-based teaching in small classes.
New Zealand-born Shanahan has been based in Australia since 1988. Her The Acclimatisation Project speculates on the relationships between identity and place, and between bodily and photographic experiences of place.
Rebecca Shanahan, Untitled, 2001 The Acclimatisation Project
Foreign plants and indigenous landscapes share the frame in each image with the degraded surfaces interrupting photographic illusion of being a window on the world.
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