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Christine Cornish

Australian contemporary artist Christine Cornish combines painting and drawing with photography. Cornish investigates "the self-consciousness of individual perception", particularly interested in the relationship "between perception, memory and knowledge". Cornish relates "subjective vision" as being restricted by governance and principles that stem from cultural and scientific rhetoric than from an "understanding of perception itself. Merging physical and faux space with "objects that suggest ephemeral cultural phenomena", Cornish aims to unpack "the inextricable yet abstruse materiality of things that make up our ordinary daily experiences". Moreover, Cornish "modulates the images through layering and drawing before photographing to distancing materiality from the material and objects from their origins and their objections" (Cornish 2006).

**Figure 2.** Christine Cornish, *Datum 17* , 2001, gelatin silver print, 495x408mm

Keywords

Christine Cornish, Analogue photography, Contemporary photography, Australia

Bibliography

Cornish, Christine. 1987. Natura Morta V . Image. http://www.australianphotographers.org/artists/christine-cornish/photos#301.

Cornish, Christine. 2001. Datum 17. Image. http://www.australianphotographers.org/artists/christine-cornish/photos#313.

Cornish, Christine. 2006. "Christine Cornish". Australian Photographers. http://www.australianphotographers.org/artists/christine-cornish.