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6 October 2008
i'm forever blowing bubbles...
Now Playing: the dirty three - whatever you love, you are
Topic: f-stop magazine

i'm forever blowing bubbles...


...or rather, Karen was. I think she might have hyperventilated a bit after blowing bubbles for me semi-continuously whilst I tried to capture an image suitable to composite into another photo for the series I'm creating for my Canon Photo5 competition entry.

The two of us and Greg enjoyed the strange looks of folk assembled for a wedding nearby whilst we took photos in the Botanical Gardens on Sunday. Bubble-blowing was the least absurd behaviour we were partaking in, I assure you.

However, you'll have to wait until the series is completed before you get to see the photos or hear any more about our mischief.

In the meantime, you can see four of my images in issue #31 of F-Stop Magazine (on the right-hand side of the third row), and you can vote for my entry into the current round of the Saatchi Showdown competition.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 14:19 BST
Updated: 6 October 2008 14:28 BST
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river's edge
Now Playing: the dirty three - whatever you love, you are
Topic: self-portraiture

river's edge


In three weeks I will be giving up my life of solitude. My life within these walls alone.

For the first time after four years and one month I will have a housemate. I will be moving. This will officially be the third longest period I've lived in one premises in my life. And only a few months short of my longest relationship to date.

Anyone who knows me knows I don't take sharing a home lightly. I love living alone. The freedom to do what I want, whenever I want, in as little clothing as I want (and that the weather will allow) without observation, interruption or judgment from anyone else (except maybe my neighbours if they happen to be nosy and looking through my not-so-concealing fence without my knowledge).

So I've been cherishing my backyard with its long, overgrown grass which retains a me-shaped outline after I lie in it. The me-shape still remaining from my shoot with Formalde two weekends ago. And the itch of the grass against my back and legs as I lay naked on it at two and a half minutes to midnight on a Friday night. The grass wet from the afternoon's heavy rain, the light from the streetlamp illuminating me as the chill night air drifts across my skin.

Within the next week I'll pay a gardener to cut the grass back and the me-shape will disappear or at least become less obvious. In a month there'll be scarcely a speck of evidence of my having lived here.

And despite my usual reluctance to share my personal space with others on a full time basis I'm actually looking forward to taking up residence with Karen and her slobbering Rottweiler, Vulpe. I'm looking forward to painting my new bedroom and study, taking photographs in a new place (though I've photographed Karen there before), making my new unconventional bedroom my home and setting up a makeshift studio.

This Eastender is moving Westside.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:46 BST
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curtain call
Now Playing: pulp - this is hardcore
Topic: fashion

curtain call


model: sandy
outfit: model's own
styling: sandy, karen, bronwen hyde
art direction & photography: bronwen hyde
location: aradale mental hospital, ararat, victoria, australia.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:40 BST
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glamour girl
Now Playing: pulp - this is hardcore
Topic: fashion

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model: sandy
outfit: model's own
styling: sandy, karen, bronwen hyde
art direction & photography: bronwen hyde
location: aradale mental hospital, ararat, victoria, australia.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:34 BST
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before the recital
Now Playing: pulp - this is hardcore
Topic: fashion

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model: sandy
outfit: model's own
styling: sandy, karen, bronwen hyde
art direction & photography: bronwen hyde
location: aradale mental hospital, ararat, victoria, australia.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:24 BST
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the lady waits
Now Playing: pulp - this is hardcore
Topic: fashion

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model: karen
outfit: mixture of model's own and sandy's
styling: sandy, karen, bronwen hyde
art direction & photography: bronwen hyde
location: aradale mental hospital, ararat, victoria, australia.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:14 BST
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adjust
Now Playing: pulp - this is hardcore
Topic: fashion

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models: karen & sandy
outfit: models' own
styling: sandy, karen, bronwen hyde
art direction & photography: bronwen hyde
location: aradale mental hospital, ararat, victoria, australia.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:02 BST
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...and she waited
Now Playing: pulp - this is hardcore
Topic: fashion

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model: karen
outfit: mixture of model's own and sandy's
styling: sandy, karen, bronwen hyde
art direction & photography: bronwen hyde
location: aradale mental hospital, ararat, victoria, australia.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 12:53 BST
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3 October 2008
you're a doll
Now Playing: nofx - ribbed
Topic: exhibitions

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For those in Melbourne, just letting you know that the Totem: Dolls with Souls exhibition extends beyond the Melbourne Fringe Festival until the 12th of October. So head to Fracture Gallery at Federation Square any time, day or night, to check out the creations of some awesome artists.

Don't forget to stand back and look up, and also get close and seek out the smaller dolls. You won't see everything on first glance, I guarantee that.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 13:46 BST
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24 September 2008
chance steers the hand
Now Playing: lamplight - the fish will walk
Topic: exhibitions

chance steers the hand

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”
- Marcel Proust


I have an image in the latest round of the Saatchi Showdown. You can vote for it here.

And a final reminder: if you are in Melbourne you can see this image and three other self-portraits from the asylum, plus a portrait of me by Paul Louis Villani, plus many, many other wonderful photographs at the closing night of the Brunswick Street Gallery Picture This Prize from 6-9pm tonight.

Hope to see you there.

Posted by Bronwen Hyde at 05:53 BST
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