Education
He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), (1996) and a Graduate Diploma of Education (1997) at the University of South Australia.
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Darren Siwes
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He is of Indigenous and Dutch descent. He has a unique style of photographing familiar South Australian landmarks, and using long exposure to reveal the ghostly figure of an Aboriginal man in a suit and tie onto the image. More recently he has used female figures in this same style.
Siwes" work is political in this sense.
He says he is inspired by contemporary Indigenous Australian artists such as Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett, and is interested in exploring the possibilities of Aboriginal art in new forms and new media. Siwes is represented by Greenaway Art Gallery,Adelaide,Australia & Nellie Castan Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.
2001, Misperceptions, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Nellie Caston Gallery, Melbourne 1997, Fall, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1997, Horizon Scenes, University of California, Irvine Gallery, Los Angeles 1996, Castles in the Air, Metro Galleries, Brisbane 1996, Natural Alibis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Achievements
Politics
1999, Living Here & Now: Art & Politics, Australian Perspecta Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998, Three Views of Kaurna Territory Now, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide.
