ABOUT

Born in Sweden but raised in Australia and England, Ophelia Boman Jorgensen’s practice is often imbued with the experience of these diverse cultures and their effects upon the individual. Her finished work conveys concepts which explore the relationship between an aspect of personal experience and how it relates wider concepts, particularly those rooted in nature, relationships, human psychology, philosophy, or history.

Ophelia Boman Jorgensen describes herself as a visual storyteller. Complex narratives are introduced which establish a visual dialogue between the internal (self) and the external. Here the experiences and everyday participation of life are translated into photographic images, transforming photography into a tool which uses the external to explain and convey the internal. As such, her work transforms human experience into artistic expression, using imagination to instigate a collective understanding for individualistic experience.

Her practice is significantly informed by her background in Art History which provides a special advantage within the academic research behind each project shown. Understanding the evolution of visual media and how history has shaped it allows Ophelia Boman Jorgensen to further explore the relationship between the visual and the conceptual.