Cameron Gray

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Age: 25
City: Summerhill
Country: Australia

Joined: Feb 2007

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Artist Statement

My illustrative works are a continual study of the human psychological condition. Through it, I represent my personal observations and commentaries, sometimes regarding my own experiences and sometimes depicting social psychological tendencies and patterns. They are my views and interpretations of the world around me and myself as a living creature trying to find my place on a planet where the quest for meaning has ironically lost its meaning.
These images are created by a constant blending and marriage of traditional and digital mediums and composing the pieces within Photoshop. While I work, the traditional elements are scanned or photographed, then digitally processed, broken down, then recomposed with the digital elements to create each image.
Creating these works can be a very lonely, personally confronting and intensely internal environment, so it’s important to step out of that place from time to time. That’s where photography comes in.

Photography for me is an escape. Escape from the confines of creating my illustrations, escape from social stigma. There is nothing more pleasing for me than being in the middle of nowhere, immersed entirely in the beauty of nature living it’s life, completely isolated from the shallow bitchiness and judgments of humans. Photography allows me to disregard time and simply experience that particular environment. I find myself staring into the flow of a stream for hours on end, wishing that I could be a leaf floating in the water, going where it takes me with no sense of consequence or social responsibility. No one to say I’m not good enough, not smart enough, not attractive enough.
I love macro photography, the feeling of isolating and giving meaning to the smaller things we walk passed every day yet never acknowledge. In 2007 I began experimenting with infrared photography, which has given me a much greater scope of appreciation for everything around us. Everything seems to jump out at you when looking through an IR camera. I begin crawling around the ground, capturing everything in my path. The beauty of photography is that it isn’t bias in what it captures. It has no sense of what is or isn’t important, it captures everything “as is” without passing judgment or ignorance toward a subject. It has no past memory of that place or that object. Sometimes we take a photo of something we think of as being beautiful, but when we look at the print it can often be not as we experienced that beauty in that space and atmosphere at that period of time. I like to photograph things that I find beautiful and discard what others perceive as being beauty. If I see beauty in it, I will capture it.

~~-Biography~~-
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Cameron Gray was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1984 and currently resides in Tasmania studying Contemporary Art at the University of Tasmania’s Academy of the Arts.

Known primarily as an emerging graphic artist & photographer, Cameron has recently returned to an early passion of his, video. He has studied Graphic Design & Multimedia Design and has shown interest in drawing, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, experimental video, sound design and digital image making. In 2002 Cameron won the AGFA Australia award for best body of Pre-tertiary photography with his digital art at Launceston College.

He has been influenced by the work of David Ho, Steve Danzig, Mike Bohatch, Fabrice Lavollay, Stephen Kasner and Gulnar Guvenc to name a few. In 2003 his work was exhibited in Art Rage and published by the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery and in 2005 Cameron was accepted into the guest gallery of the Museum Of Computer Art.

At the age of 21, Cameron published his first book of artwork (Parable Visions; the art of Cameron Gray) and to date has published four more books and collaborated with a host of magazines, authors, bands and underground publications. Cameron Gray is the founder & editor of Parable Visions Magazine which features underground art and literature from around the world. (currently on hiatus)

In 2009 Cameron was inducted as a life member into the Golden Key International Honour Society, for scoring in the top 15% in his studies at the University of Tasmania.

His tools and equipment used include an Intel Macbook with Photoshop, Illustrator, Bryce, Poser, Gimp, Apophysis, Final Cut Pro, Vue, a Wacom Tablet, Canon G10 Camera, Infrared converted Canon G5 camera, a Digital Microscope, JVC HD30 Camera, Pentax K20D DSLR and an Underwater modified HD video camera.

Cameron’s work is regularly displayed at The Museum Of Computer Art and ParableVisions.com

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~~-Exhibitions & Awards~~-

2002 Launceston College Student Exhibition
2002 AGFA Australia Award
2003 Art Rage
2004 “Intersections” Taking It Global
2005 “Urban Sustainability: Frame Your City” Taking It Global
2005 “Museum Of Computer Art Guest Gallery”
2006 “Museum Of Computer Art Awards 6”
2006 “2-d-2” Energy Gallery
2007 “Museum Of Computer Art Awards 7”
2007 “2-3-D-6” Energy Gallery
2007 “Collage” Powerhouse Gallery
2007 “Impress SnowDog” RedBubble Contest
2007 “Photoshop Creative Contest” Runner Up
2008 “Wrest Point Art Awards & Exhibition”
2008 “Tasmanian Creative Arts Students Summer Exhibition”
2008 “Museum of Computer Awards 8”
2008 “Museum of Computer Art International Digital Art Show” – Brooklyn, New York
2009 “Golden Key International Honour Society” Life member.

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~~-Publications~~-

2003 “About Face” Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
August 2005 “Splintered”
2005 “PhireBrush” Issue 29
2005 “PhireBrush” Issue 30
2005 “PhireBrush” Issue 31
2005 “PhireBrush” Issue 32
November 2005 “Parable Visions: The Art Of Cameron Gray”
December 2005 “The Blue Patient”
January 2006 “Splintered”
2006 “PhireBrush” Issue 33
January 2006 “Parable Visions Magazine” Issue 1
March 2006 “Sub Rosa” Issue 4
2006 “PhireBrush” Issue 34
March 2006 “Parable Visions Magazine” Issue 2
2006 “PhireBrush” Issue 35
2006 “PhireBrush” Issue 36
April 2006 “We Are The Image Makers” Issue 2
May 2006 “Cthulhu Sex” Issue 24 Volume 2
June 2006 “PhireBrush” Issue 38
July 2006 “PhireBrush” Issue 39
July 2006 “Emerging Visions”
October 2006 “Phirebrush” Issue 42
November 2006 “Phirebrush” Issue 43
January 2007 “Parable Visions Magazine” Issue 4
February 2007 “Parable Visions – The Artistic Methods”
February 2007 “PurpleVerse” Volume 1
March 2007 “Through The Eyes Of A Stranger” Caleb L. Mabry
March 2007 “Dark Discoveries” Issue 9
May 2007 “Alternate Macro”
May 2007 “GUD Magazine” Issue 1
July 2007 “WOMAG Magazine” Issue 7
Sept 2007 “Forbidden Whispers Magazine” Issue 4
Sept 2007 “Throw Shapes Magazine” Issue 9
Oct 2007 “Ripples Magazine” Issue 10
Nov 2007 “Photoshop Creative Magazine” Issue 29
Jan 2008 “GUD Magazine” Issue 2
Feb 2008 “DeskTop Magazine” Issue 235
June 2008 “Phirebrush” Issue 62
July 2008 “Noise – Global Art Network” July newsletter.
October 2008 “Structure | a study of patterns, structure and formation”
October 2008 “Logical Unsanity” Issue 3
October 2008 “We Are The Image Makers” Issue 17
February 2009 “NewWebPick” Issue 20
May 2009 “Visions Magazine”
June 2009 “Inside Artzine” Issue 13