‘Storm’ forms part of Bronwyn Wright’s series Nickelodeon car, which was shot at a wasteland on the edge of Darwin’s northern suburbs known as The Swamp. Wright spent fourteen years visiting the site daily with her dogs, observing seasonal variations and interacting anonymously with a youth sub-culture she found there. The Swamp is a place where young people spin out in old cars and motorbikes and it is littered with the wreckages of disintegrating, abandoned car bodies. As part of the process of creating these works, Wright painted graffiti on the cars. She sees her resultant artworks as collaborations between herself, the youths, her dogs and the tropical climate. This work shows an overturned spray-painted car in front of a dark stormy sky, evoking an image of Australia as a dystopic frontier land populated by strange and unruly creatures.
(2016)
Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
