VCA ART 2020

April Chandler

Honours

I often think of myself as a character in my life. Someone I am obliged to love but do not really like. All of my work stems from my conflict with my identity. It manifests through investigations into what forms identity; practices and influences that push and pull us towards an idea of ‘who we are.’ My current focus is on family and the practice of using family research as a way to define and justify choices, actions and identities. I use re-photography, which I define as the retaking and representing of pre-existing photographs to create a critical discourse, to examine how we build identity and family histories around photographs and family albums.

Website

www.aprilchandlerartist.com

Social

Instagram

Enquiries

aprilchandler@hotmail.com

Featured in tour

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April Chandler, *Nan* and *Grandad *(installation view), framed silver gelatin prints, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
April Chandler, Nan and Grandad (installation view), framed silver gelatin prints, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
April Chandler, *Love Letters* (installation view), single channel video, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
April Chandler, Love Letters (installation view), single channel video, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
April Chandler, *Nan* (detail), framed silver gelatin print, 2020
April Chandler, Nan (detail), framed silver gelatin print, 2020
April Chandler, *Grandad* (detail), framed silver gelatin print, 2020
April Chandler, Grandad (detail), framed silver gelatin print, 2020
April Chandler, *Love Letters* (video still), 22min 25sec single channel video, 2020
April Chandler, Love Letters (video still), 22min 25sec single channel video, 2020
April Chandler, *Love Letters* (video still), single channel video, 2020
April Chandler, Love Letters (video still), 22min 25sec single channel video, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from *Love Letters*: *Drink This Son*, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from Love Letters: Drink This Son, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from *Love Letters*: *Hold my Hand*, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from Love Letters: Hold my Hand, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from *Love Letters*: *Holding a Monkey?*, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from Love Letters: Holding a Monkey?, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from *Love Letters*: *Nan and Grandad in Love*, digital photograph, 2020
April Chandler, Photo from Love Letters: Nan and Grandad in Love, digital photograph, 2020

Honours

Chelsea Arnott
Skye Malu Baker
Thandiwe Bethune
April Chandler
Julien Comer-Kleine
Felix von Dallwitz
Edward Dean
Chelsea Farquhar
Jemi Gale
Isaac Kairouz
Thomas Solomon Kuiper
Brodie Kokkinos
Michael McCafferty
Sean McDowell
Lachlan McKee
Kurt Medenbach
Brayden van Meurs
Madeleine Minack
Lia Dewey Morgan
Hetty Munn
Samuel Nugent
Nina Rose Prendergast
Leo Bagus Purnomo
Liam Randles-Martin
Nina Sanadze
Seth Searle
Alice Watson

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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