Conquest, 2013, Meg Cowell
Giclee print, 133cm x 92cm
Provenance: Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
Meg Cowell graduated from her photography studies from the University of Tasmania in 2007, and has exhibited both nationally and abroad. Her large scale photographic artworks depict theatrical garments, lingerie and couture that have been arranged and illuminated while suspended in water. In submerging her subjects Meg aims to generate a sense of the garments being ‘inhabited’ by their absent wearer. The physical act of fashioning these inanimate subjects motivates her engagement with the ‘absence’ and the use of fabric and clothing as a form of visual expression (1).