Carol Jerrems
(1949 - 1980)
MIRROR WITH A MEMORY: MOTEL ROOM, 1977
C-type photograph
23.0 x 17.5 cm
edition: 1/9
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: MIRROR WITH A MEMORY: MOTEL ROOM 1/9 JERREMS, 1977
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title verso: "Mirror with a memory: motel room" / 1/9 / Carol Jerrems 1977
Estimate:
$25,000 - $35,000
Sold:
$63,818 (inc. BP)
lot details
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: MIRROR WITH A MEMORY: MOTEL ROOM 1/9 JERREMS, 1977
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title verso: "Mirror with a memory: motel room" / 1/9 / Carol Jerrems 1977
Dr Jonn Mumford, New South Wales, acquired directly from the artist in 1978
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Living in the 70s: Photographs by Carol Jerrems, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 20 July – 12 August 1990, then touring to: Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 24 August – 30 September 1990; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 23 February – 12 May 1991; Albury Regional Centre, New South Wales, 24 May – 23 June 1991; Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, 29 June – 28 July 1991; The Exhibition Gallery, The Waverley Centre, Melbourne, 4 August – 15 September 1991 (another example)
Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Portraiture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 4 March – 12 June 2000 (another example)
Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 31 July – 31 October 2010 (another example)
Legacy. Your collection. Our Story, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, 15 June – 19 September 2018 (another example)
Literature
Ennis, H., and Jenyns, B., Living in the 70s: Photographs by Carol Jerrems, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1990, n.p.
Schwarz, K., ‘Girl in a Mirror’, Art and Australia, vol. 43, no. 2, Summer 2005, p. 245 (illus., another example)
King, N. (ed.), Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Schwartz City, Melbourne, 2010, pp. 142 (illus.), 143, 240
Conrad, P., ‘The faith of images’, The Monthly, 1 October 2010 (illus.), https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2010/october/1285813730/peter-conrad/faith-images (accessed October 2024)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne