Stephanie (Australia – administrative services officer) and Evangelia (Greece – retired), Mount Waverley2019
In celebration of the gallery’s 30th anniversary, MGA commissioned four leading Australian artists to explore the City of Monash by responding to key issues facing the local community. Peta Clancy, Lee Grant, Ponch Hawkes and David Rosetzky were invited to respond to a topic of their choosing.
In her response to this commission, Grant explored the migrant experience through her series From there to here: migrant journeys to Monash. This series comprises portraits of 16 people who migrated to Australia and settled in the City of Monash. Grant's approach was to create environmental portraits by photographing people in their own homes, both indoors and outdoors. Accompanying these large-scale colour images are black-and-white passport-style portraits presented with documents that relate to these people’s migration to Australia. In addition, each participant recorded an interview recounting their journey to Monash in their own words. These interviews highlight their motivations for migrating to a new place, and the emotions they experienced as they arrived in a foreign land.
(2021)
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
