Giulio Sheaves Photography
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Personal Work
My practice most often explores the comedy and intimacy in family, the strange and sometimes conflicting narratives in these close relationships. I have a very mutli-disciplinary approach to making, often starting and idea digitally, sketching from images, collaging shapes, painting on surfaces. I find it impossible not to merge mediums as a means to express more.Stef in the Bathroom at 363 Hinterlengauweg, 2023. Acrylic and projection (mp4) on woodboard, 123x160cm. Painted directly onto the wall at Camberwell College of Art.
For Stef, arriving at 363 Hinterlengauweg must have been a difficult blow. He put the nail in the coffin of his experiment in France, he had not achieved whatever it was he went there to achieve. For the first couple nights at the house, he felt a warm welcome. Soon, however, his mental state started to deteriorate. One night, in a drunken stupor, he sings and wails in the bath. He is heard howling and cursing at invisible foes. At around 3:31 AM someone knocks at the door and asks him to keep it down.’
Full video projection simulation available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQji-ekAQQ
Sexual Healing, Alto Sax (Eb), 2023. 68 page wire bound book on 120gsm recycled paper, A5. Available to view, just send me an email
‘Agamemnon the Greek King. Agamemnon the young boy.
Agamemnon, a name he chose for himself, is fantastical and mythical, even more so as an Odyssey.
Desperately searching for friendship, without inhibitions,
Agamemnon finds Ted Smith.
Ted liked to be alone but he secretly wanted a friend too.
This was the part given to me in Agamemnon’s Odyssey.
His name was grand. Mine was bland.
Ted accepts his invitation and together the two are happy. Agamemnon’s quest for frienship is seemingly over.
The boys’ friendship is abruptly cut short when an unexpected thing happens. Ted’s mum dies. Out of nowhere. She suddenly dies.
Instead of bringing the friends closer together it separates them completely.’
Agamemnon, a name he chose for himself, is fantastical and mythical, even more so as an Odyssey.
Desperately searching for friendship, without inhibitions,
Agamemnon finds Ted Smith.
Ted liked to be alone but he secretly wanted a friend too.
This was the part given to me in Agamemnon’s Odyssey.
His name was grand. Mine was bland.
Ted accepts his invitation and together the two are happy. Agamemnon’s quest for frienship is seemingly over.
The boys’ friendship is abruptly cut short when an unexpected thing happens. Ted’s mum dies. Out of nowhere. She suddenly dies.
Instead of bringing the friends closer together it separates them completely.’
Getting To Know You, 2023. Gyclée print on primed canvas (PVA glue, white gesso, natural flax tow), mounted to plywood board, 105x74cm.
Stef at the Window, 2022. Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 140x100cm.
Aloneness with all black, 2022. Laser cut relief on found woodboard, 45x45cm.