Me at Wolombi, May 1974
1974
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
33.8 × 33.1 cm (image)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through the KODAK (Australasia) Pty Ltd Fund, 1976
© Fiona Hall
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Fiona Hall began focusing on photography in the mid 1970s, following her time as an assistant to British landscape photographer Fay Godwin. Taken with a large-format camera, Hall’s early photographs were influenced by late modernism and formalism, the study of art focusing on the visual aspects of a work. In this image, Hall plays with forms and lines, capturing the elements of the room as if they have been layered, and she positions herself so that her reflection appears as though it is hovering in space. Curator and art historian Helen Ennis writes that while we often expect self-portraiture to reveal the artist, Hall’s photograph seems to conceal her.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.: FIONA HALL / ME AT WOLOMBI / MAY 1974
Accession Number
PH177-1976
Department
Australian Photography
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest