Andrew Dearman Explained

Andrew Dearman
Birth Name:	Andrew Dearman
Birth Place:	South Australia
Nationality:	Australia
Field:	Photography
Training:	University of South Australia
Website:	Personal website

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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

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.^[4] Dearman also conducts academic research into analogue photography and contemporary art, which he sees as forming part of his art practice.^{[5] [6]} He lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.^[7]

Artistic style and subject

Although Dearman began as sculptor,^[8] 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.^[9] Dearman makes cameras^[10] and has also built a portable darkroom^[11] (dubbed the ‘Beasty’).^{[12] [13]}

Bibliography

Works by Dearman:

• 2004/5. A Box of Tea. Vitamin, Episode Three November/December/January, pp. 14-15
• 2008. 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, 23.
• 2011. Working (with) the Dead: Agency and its Absence in the Use of the Found Image. Colloquy 22.
• 2016. The Green Room: Nazia Ejaz.

Further reading

• Kimber, Mark. Processing the past: Contemporary photomedia in South Australia. Art Monthly Australia, no.274, October 2014, pp. 20–23.

External links

• Video: Andrew Dearman Disappearance 2015
• Video: Around Again final

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schneider . Grace . Celebrate History Festival At This Awesome Heritage Campus . www.glamadelaide.com.au . 12 November 2018 . en-AU . 17 May 2018.
2. Web site: Who, what, where: NT/SA September 2016 . AICCM . 12 November 2018 . en . 3 September 2016.
3. Web site: Carlisle . Karen J . The Original 'Instant' Photograph karen j carlisle . karenjcarlisle.com . 12 November 2018 . en-AU . 22 May 2016.
4. Web site: Dearman . Andrew . Art practice and governmentality: the role modelling effects of contemporary art practice and its institutions . University of South Australia Library . University of South Australia . 12 November 2018 . en-au . 2008.
5. Web site: Andrew Dearman . The Mill Adelaide . 12 November 2018.
6. Web site: Grid Festival . FELTspace . 12 November 2018 . en-AU . 2014.
7. Web site: Andrew Dearman . Adelaide Central School of Art . 12 November 2018 . en . 13 September 2018.
8. Web site: Neylon . John . Andrew Dearman Explores the Still and Moving Image - The Adelaide Review . The Adelaide Review . 12 November 2018 . 9 May 2017.
9. Web site: Neylon . John . Andrew Dearman Explores the Still and Moving Image - The Adelaide Review . The Adelaide Review . 12 November 2018 . 9 May 2017.
10. Web site: Bishop-Thorpe . Alex . Andrew Dearman and The Crate Camera . The Analogue Laboratory . 12 November 2018 . 24 June 2013.
11. News: Nunn . Louise . Moving Pictures . The Advertiser (Adelaide) . 11 May 2017.
12. Web site: AdelaideCentral on Twitter . Twitter . en . 11 May 2017.
13. News: Fleming . Kylie . Art takes step back in time . CoastCity Weekly . 10 May 2017.