ABOUT
Edwina Darling works with photography as installations exploring the space between moving and still images. Her work focusses on mobilising still imagery through inherently human qualities, such as breath, blood and tears. Or through use of energetic movement such as light and wind.
Her works address objectification, privacy and performance, by giving agency to the work and recontextualises the viewers position with the subject. As the subject takes on more lifelike qualities, it highlights the audience as voyeur and the subject as performer emulating the environment young women can find themselves in real life.
Darling is interested in the concept of female perception of self. Investigating the internalised male-gaze in young women, and how this manifest in self-perception, performance and ultimately objectification of self. As well as the history of female motifs, particularly in renaissance myth, and their intertwined purpose as love and sex, and fertility as victory.
Darling graduated Sydney College of the Arts with first class honours in 2022. She has since continued to exhibit and curate group exhibitions in Sydney and regional NSW. Darling was a finalist in the 2020 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize.
Education
2018-2022 Bachelor of Visual Arts and Advanced Studies at Sydney College of the Arts (First Class Honours)
2025 Masters of Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts
Art Prizes
2020 (Finalist) Kangaroo Valley Art Prize
Professional Development
2021 In Focus Portfolio Review, Ballarat International Foto Biennale