Ali McCann: An Introduction to Liminal Aesthetics (NOT FOR WHOLESALE)

Situated between abstraction and representation, Melbourne-based artists Ali McCann’s practice engages with the ideas of formalism, materiality, visual perception, and the aesthetics of pedagogy. Found objects, in the form of obsolete teaching aids, unfinished projects, discarded photographs and art materials, serve as departure points for explorations of colour, light, shape, form, and space. Her still-life arrangements and video works undergo a succession of hybrid photographic processes to form uncanny and seemingly impossible renderings of the object within the picture plane. She draws inspiration from diverse sources such as foundational art history publications, outmoded art-and-design text books, 1970s amateur photography magazines, and from her personal experience as a student and teacher. Her reimagining of educational aesthetics is imbued with a nostalgia for the primary, exploratory phase of the creative process.Ali McCann lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including, most recently: Slippery Images, NGV National Gallery of Victoria (2023), States of Disruption, Centre For Contemporary Photography (2022), Tree Log Paper Book, Bus Projects (2022), Not for the Sake of Something More, Sarah Scout Presents (2021), Οι νέοι, Gertrude Contemporary (2019), Still Life Pt III, Lon Gallery (2019), Masks for Magicians, Caves (2018), Polytechnic, Tristian Koenig (2018), An Introduction to Liminal Aesthetics, c3 Contemporary Art Space (2017) and Throwing off the Hump, Kings Artist Run (2017). She was recently a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2022 at HOTA, Surfers Paradise, QLD and the National Photography Prize 2020 at MAMA Murray Art Museum, Albury, NSW. Her work is held in public and private collections across Australia and abroad.
ISBN 9781925788020. Tempo Haus. pb. 36 pages. 21 x 25 cm.
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