List of works

Every Woman Has Her Price

2010 – current (Coffee+Sponge collaboration, interactive live theatre installation)

Through devised performance, playwright Jennifer Farmer embodies all of the directory's 200+  prostitutes while I capture, in photographs and drawings, the details which make these 'pretty women' individuals.

Here nor There

2010 (performance by Emma Leach)

Performed at the Tate Britain, during a Late at Tate evening. Exploring miscommunication.

Lingua franca

2010 – current (photographic body of work)

Working with dancers and performers, looking at the language of movement; exploring how to map it, capture it, and reproduce it through images.

Choir Project

2010 (documentary images for H2Dance)

As part of the 40^th anniversary of The Place, H2Dance choreographed piece with a choir, that I documented in photography.

One Last Cigarette

2009 - current (Coffee+Sponge collaboration, short film script)

A short film script posing the question 'Through defying a structure, do you arrive at the creation of a new one?'.

Family Portrait

2009 - current (photography + pencil on paper)

Body of images exploring the difference between gender and sex, questioning how these traditional roles have been affirmed through the family portrait.

Through created characters, I set up situations in which to explore questions pertaining to the performance of gender and how this can differ from the the bodily sex. I am interested in markers of performance, and asking what they are; removed of props.

personal structure (working title)

2009 - current (photographic portraiture + project)

Interviews and photographic project with individuals, asking how they see themselves.

plane; Issue 01 The Personal Structure

2009 (32 p. publication B+W print/web)

Self published zine exploring structure in its many facets; the first issue looking at identity. http://www.samueloverington.com/plane

Mapping Knowing Unknowing

2008/09 (pen on paper, cartography)

Using cartography to explore the known / the unknown.

Interested in the similarities between mapping and language. I used the physical nature of the written word to create lanscape of several countries. The word casting, describing, capturing, founding, discovering an area. Leading further into the non tangible (the unknown) and exploring that area (bringing it into the known). Exploiting the physical nature of written language, and its break of idea from word by its lack of existence beyond the meaning. Drawing the lines between mapping and knowing; then mapping what I don't know.

Mapping through memories

2007 (hand made booklet + manuscript)

A guided tour using personal memories of a place to present and the actual place (five specific locations within the city of Antwerpen, Belgium + studio and bedroom London, UK).

Amrita

2006 (on site documentary photographs )

Documentary film on artist Amrita Sher-Gil.

Swappers

2005 (multimedia installation)

Multimedia production working with people around the world to examine the effect of multiple perspectives of art in particular art in galleries.

Ideals of Masculinity

2006 (critical text)

A critical exploration into the history of the masculine image and its ideals, and how this has changed during the past 800 years.

Ode to old man

2006 (photographic body of work)

A photographic exploration into the similarities between me and my father, in both physical make up and throughout our life paths.

All that surrounds me

2006 (photographic body of work)

A photographic project in the line of Nan Goldin, exposing my life for a 3 month period.

Truth and Perspective (The I of Camera)

2006 (photographic body of work)

A body of photographic work questioning where the boundaries of truth and perspective in photography lie.

Folio of movement and dance (contact improvisation)

2006 (photographic body of work; dance and movement documentation)

Capturing movement through photography during workshops and classes at the Cecil st studios, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.

Our conversation

2005 (photographic mural, mixed media installation)

Photographic installation posing questions on the formation selfhood according to Lacan.

Body of the Landscape

2005 (site specific photographic installation)

Playing with the idea of portraiture and landscape photography; using multiple replications of a body to create a line, the portraite in its multiple becomes a body-scape.

India, my love

2004/05 (photographic portraiture portfolio)

A body of portraiture taken from a trip to South India.

Performance and photography

2004/05 (photographic bodies of work)

Exploring the performative and theatrical elements of photography, performing and utilising the ability of photography to compress time and space onto one plane

Exposing a negative for long periods of time, allowing everything that happens in front of the camera; in the view range of the lens, to be captured in within a single frame, compressing time. Allowing one moment, and forty minutes to be regarded on the same plane. The performative elelment came from me enacting something in front of the camera, whilst the shutter was open, captureing it on film, and also losing its definition, or taking on a new definition.

Landscape photographic painting

2004 (photo-montage)

A body of work looking at the city, and perspective, in the lines of David Hockney.

Promotional Photography for Purr Parties

2004 (Documentary Photographer)

Photographed several events.

Body, Image and Self.

2003 (photographic portraiture portfolio)

A body of self portraiture looking at my relation to fashion and image.

Alone

2002 (B+W Photographic & Text)

A body of work buit up about the idea love and disillusion.

Faced with many decisions to make about the possibilities of the world after high school, going through adolescence, and dealing with the death of a younger brother, I created a montage of photography, text, and collage, exploring what I felt at the time

Father/Child Relationship

2001 (B+W Photographic project)

Body of work looking at relationship between fathers and their children.

Blue Dance

2001 (stage technician, documentary photography)

A performance of dance improvisation and live music, directed by Janice Claxton, presented at the Woodford Folk Festival 2000/01 (Australia).

Contact Improvisation Workshop

2000 (documentary photography, published images)

Contact improvisation workshop with Helen Clark Laplin, images published in publication <proximity> http://proximity.slightly.net/

Spirit in Motion (workshop + performance)

2000 (stage manager, documentary photography)

A 10 week course exploring rhythm and movement, culminating in a performance.

Previous Employment

2010 PISTOLS AND POLLINATORS, Documentary Photography for 'Accident & Emergence', London, UK.

2008/10 Zara, Oxford st, London, UK.

Cashier (3 Months from November, Current Position)

Stock Room Assistant (9 Months)

Sales Assistant (9 Months)

2009 plane, Article Contributor to Publication, London, UK.

2009 Freelance; Photoshop touching up, London, UK.

2008 The Red Fort, Waiter, (3 Months) London, UK.

2008 Art Assistant, Matthew Darbyshire, Bethnal Green, UK. (4 Months)

2007/8 Coffee Corizon, Waiter, Barista, Cleaner (4 months), Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

2007 Overington Building, Builder / Labourer (7 Months), Essex, UK.

2006/7 'La Cafe', Waiter + Barista (18 months), Melbourne, Australia.

2006 Amrita, Documentary Production Photographs, Melbourne, Australia

2006 Contact Improvisation Workshop Documentary Photography during workshops and classes, Cecil st studios, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.

2004 Purr Parties, Promotional Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2004 Big Mouth, Waiter (10 months), Melbourne, Australia.

2003/4 Zimmer Lounge, Kitchen hand, basic food prep (8 months), Melbourne, Australia.

2002 Belongil Beachouse, Cleaner (10 months), Byron Bay, Australia.

2001 Blue Dance(stage technician, documentary photography), Woodford Folk Festival, QLD Australia.

2000 Contact Improvisation Workshop, Documentary Photography, published images in <proximity>, Byron Bay, Australia.

2000 Spirit in Motion, workshop + performance stage manager, documentary photographer (10 week workshop + 4 Performances), Byron Bay, Australia.

2000 Fins Seafood Resteraunt, Kitchen hand (Work experience, 1 Month), Byron Bay, Australia.

Education:

2003 - 2007 ; Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.

Bachelor of Fine Arts Photography (Honours).

1997 - 2002 ; Alstonville High School. NSW, Australia