Artist Statement
His first series ‘Rhopography’ (1999 – 2003) consists of black/white images of dead insects and decaying fruit, which refer to concepts and ideas underpinning Baroque painting. Since 2006 his still lifes focus on his personal family history. The three series ‘Portrait of my Mother’ (2006), ‘written in the past’ (2007), and ‘Archive’ (2008) all deal with his mother’s death and the following grieving process. In his latest work ‘Tell him it is all a transition’ he shows letters his German grandfather wrote from World War II until he became a Russian prisoner of war and eventually died. Process Statement
Froese's work investigates conceptual crossovers between art history, personal memory, and nature photography. He proceeds from the principal question, how photographic technologies have been used in the past and present to construct the world around us. His current work combines a wide range of analogue and digital techniques to respond to the issues arising from the environmental crisis in the Anthropocene.

 

 

Joachim Froese is a contemporary art photographer, teacher and academic who lives and works in Brisbane and Berlin.

Originally trained as a Graphic Reproducer in Germany, Froese went to art school in Australia in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been exhibited across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America. It is held in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

Linking theory and practice, Froese has lectured in photography at universities in Australia and Germany. He received a PhD (Art) from RMIT University in Melbourne in 2017 and is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland in Brisbane.

 

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