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Daniel Savage
Accessible 1-5, 2011
Inkjet print, 59.4 x 89cm
“Through this series i’m commenting on how space and perception play a role in how people are defined within the public sphere. By interacting with these communal transitory spaces and playing with preconceived notions of my own ‘disability’ I intend to engage the viewer in questioning how their own place in society is constructed or influenced by these external factors.”
Daniel Savage
Get well soon (self portrait), 2012
Digital inkjet print, 59.4 x 42cm
Photo credit: Rowan Savage
Made as part of a group exhibition with the ‘second street collective’ in responses the theme 'Forgotten Intimacies’, this works looks at the relationship we have to constructed memories. How through stories and photographs we can create memories of events and of self that at times feel like lived experience.
Daniel Savage
FluxAblitiy, Images 1-12 (AP), 2013
Inkjet print, 75 x 112cm
“Fluxability aims to question the construction and categorisation of individuals based on collective and personal notions of the ‘other’ and ‘norm’. Within the images I represent a single individual existing simultaneously as ‘disabled’, ‘abled’, and ‘superabled’. I use this visual relationship to subvert preconceived notions of the ‘other’ and ‘norm’. The work encourages the viewer to reassess these opposing binary labels, and the individual and collective roles we all play as spectators, and as viewers of these images.”
Contemporary western countries are arguably more inclusive than ever. In many societies, however, powerful words and terms, based on race, sexuality and disability, continue to denigrate groups considered to differ from established norms. These are words that have an inherently negative association for sectors of the community who are regularly discriminated against, oppressed, and segregated. While these words and phrases are often unspoken, the misunderstanding and fear they represent manifests in seemingly innocuous, frequently asked questions, such as, “Where are you from?”, “Is it just a phase?” and “Will you ever get better?” This exhibition consists of two complementary series of portraits that bring together universal paradigms of offensive language and the individuals who have to deal with ignorance and insult as an inherent part of their lives. ‘No offense, but…” attempts to address the way words mark individuals as outsiders, create a space for the discussion of these issues, and questions not only how far we have come as a contemporary ‘inclusive’ society but also how much further there is to go.
Daniel Savage
‘No offense, but…’ 1-16 (of 18), 2014
Inkjet prints, 50 x 70cm
‘Daniel – Quadraplegic / Will you ever get better?’
‘Bec – Lesbian / Who is the man in the relationship’
‘Cam – Transgender / You were born a girl right?’
‘Aoife – Mental illness / Can’t you just take a pill?’
‘Andy – Mixed race / Halfies are always hot'
‘Warren and Lee-Anne - Aboriginal / How aboriginal are you?’
‘Jess – Acquired brain injury / Let me do that for you?’
‘Troy – Gay / When did you admit you were gay?’
Install images of exhibition at BCS gallery 26th august 2014 featuring artists.
Daniel Savage
Print By Numbers, 2015
Inkjet print on clear Vinyl, 69 x 195cm.
(Image 1 L-R) 1. Aaron, 2. Jaclyn, 3. Ria, 4. Kelly, 5. Duncan
(Image 2 L-R) 6. Daniel #1, 7. Daniel #2, 8. Daniel #3
(Image 3 L-R) 9. Evan, 10. Dannae, Harry, and link, 11. Violet, 12. Cass, 13. Sasha, 14. Cyf
(Image 4 L-R) 15. Andrew, 16. Sam
(image 5 - 9) Installation Images at CCAS Manuka featuring universal accessibility: Braille, large print, audio descriptions, touch tours, and sign interpretation.
Print By Numbers - Audio Descriptions
DisPlace is a series of photographs using taxidermy native animals as a metaphor for the position of disabled people in contemporary Australian society. While the claim is often made that we have an ‘inclusive’ society, the public space disabled people are allowed to inhabit is often a controlled, segregated, restrictive, recreation of a non-disabled experience. When placed in these spaces the disabled individual is often put on display, an object of fascination, akin to a diorama in a museum.
DisPlace questions our relationship with disability, are we creating space for disabled people to equally engage with society or merely reinforcing the idea of disabled people as ‘other’?