Andrew Dearman

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Andrew Dearman is a South Australian photographer and arts educator, known for his work with vintage cameras and vintage photographic methods such as tintypes and ambrotypes. He frequently conducts workshops and demonstrations into historical photographic techniques.{{cite web |last1=Schneider |first1=Grace |title=Celebrate History Festival At This Awesome Heritage Campus |url=http://www.glamadelaide.com.au/celebrate-history-month-at-this-awesome-heritage-campus/ |website=www.glamadelaide.com.au |accessdate=12 November 2018 |language=en-AU |date=17 May 2018}}{{cite web |title=Who, what, where: NT/SA September 2016 |url=https://aiccm.org.au/national-news/who-what-where-ntsa-september-2016 |website=AICCM |accessdate=12 November 2018 |language=en |date=3 September 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Carlisle |first1=Karen J |title=The Original 'Instant' Photograph {{!}} karen j carlisle |url=https://karenjcarlisle.com/2016/05/22/the-original-instant-photograph/ |website=karenjcarlisle.com |accessdate=12 November 2018 |language=en-AU |date=22 May 2016}}

Biography

Dearman is an Adelaide-based photographer and his 2008 doctoral thesis is titled Art Practice and Governmentality: The Role Modelling Effects of Contemporary Art Practice and its Institutions from the University of South Australia.{{cite web |last1=Dearman |first1=Andrew |title=Art practice and governmentality: the role modelling effects of contemporary art practice and its institutions |url=http://search.library.unisa.edu.au/record/UNISA_ALMA11146617790001831 |website=University of South Australia Library |publisher=University of South Australia |accessdate=12 November 2018 |language=en-au |date=2008}} Dearman also conducts academic research into analogue photography and contemporary art, which he sees as forming part of his art practice.{{cite web |title=Andrew Dearman |url=https://www.themilladelaide.com/new-gallery-1/ |website=The Mill Adelaide |accessdate=12 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=Grid Festival |url=http://www.feltspace.org/grid-festival/ |website=FELTspace |accessdate=12 November 2018 |language=en-AU |date=2014}} He lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.{{cite web |title=Andrew Dearman |url=http://www.acsa.sa.edu.au/the-school/staff/academic-staff/andrew-dearman/ |website=Adelaide Central School of Art |accessdate=12 November 2018 |language=en |date=13 September 2018}}

Artistic style and subject

Although Dearman began as sculptor,{{cite web |last1=Neylon |first1=John |title=Andrew Dearman Explores the Still and Moving Image - The Adelaide Review |url=https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/visual-arts/andrew-dearman-explores-still-moving-image/ |website=The Adelaide Review |accessdate=12 November 2018 |date=9 May 2017}} he moved into photography and now uses vintage and antique cameras and vintage photographic techniques, along with found photographs and films to create his artworks.{{cite web |last1=Neylon |first1=John |title=Andrew Dearman Explores the Still and Moving Image - The Adelaide Review |url=https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/visual-arts/andrew-dearman-explores-still-moving-image/ |website=The Adelaide Review |accessdate=12 November 2018 |date=9 May 2017}} Dearman makes cameras{{cite web |last1=Bishop-Thorpe |first1=Alex |title=Andrew Dearman and The Crate Camera |url=http://www.analoguelab.com.au/andrew-dearman-and-the-crate-camera/ |website=The Analogue Laboratory |accessdate=12 November 2018 |date=24 June 2013}} and has also built a portable darkroom{{cite news |last1=Nunn |first1=Louise |title=Moving Pictures |work=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |date=11 May 2017}} (dubbed the ‘Beasty’).{{cite web |title=AdelaideCentral on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/AdelaideCentral/status/862568804903038976 |website=Twitter |language=en |date=11 May 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Fleming |first1=Kylie |title=Art takes step back in time |work=CoastCity Weekly |date=10 May 2017}}

Bibliography

Works by Dearman:

2004/5. A Box of Tea. [http://www.vitaminarchive.com/episode/vitamin_3.pdf Vitamin, Episode Three November/December/January, pp. 14-15]
2008. [http://search.ror.unisa.edu.au/media/researcharchive/open/9915954991001831/53111923890001831 Art practice and governmentality: the role modelling effects of contemporary art practice and its institutions].
2008. 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.’ Performing disjunct memory through an early 20th century Danish family photo album—in early 21st century South Australia. [Image [&] Narrative e-journal, [http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/Timeandphotography/dearman.html 23].
2011. Working (with) the Dead: Agency and its Absence in the Use of the Found Image. [http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/wp-content/arts-files/colloquy/colloquy_issue_twenty-two/dearman.pdf Colloquy 22].
2016. [https://medium.com/@NexusArts/the-green-room-af518cef29b0 The Green Room: Nazia Ejaz].