“Making Marks”
Max Creasey
24 Aug → 15 Sept 2012

Max Creasey’s carefully constructed photographs question our interpretation of photographic reality. They play between illusion and representation invites doubt about the process of photography and the viewer’s relationship to it. The artist draws on different modes of representation including sculpture and painting, to question the authority of the photograph. The candles in these photographs are formed in wax, cast in plaster and hand painted (complete with shadows and highlights), before being photographed. This method interrupts our understanding of the role and effects of light in the photographic process. These simulated candles present themselves as a mixture of references to the artistic process, materiality, light and time. Re-interpreted, they take on abstract qualities and become compelling arrangements of light and form.