Gillian Wang

Cheltenham Girls High School

UNDERTOW HALO

Photomedia

Digital photographic prints

Undertow Halo investigates perception and its ability to alter how we engage with the world around us. In making my body of work I found myself in dialogue with my surroundings. A fleeting reflection - the shift of light, or the irregularity of a shadow - was more than incidental: it became a site of meaning. My work represents these moments, making them into records. Verisimilitude is always in flux, formed as much by the audience's inner state as by the external world. Who truly inhabits a space: the body, the mind, or the subtle message of the environment itself?

My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: Man Ray, Olive Cotton, Olga Karlovac, Katrin Koenning, Saul Leiter, Wolfgang Tillmans, Francesca Woodman, Antoine d'Agata, Seamus McGarvey, Robert Yeoman.