{"id":408,"date":"2021-03-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2023-horizon-festival-wp.pantheonsite.io\/local-artist-series-warwick-gow\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:38:26","slug":"local-artist-series-warwick-gow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizon-festival-wp.lndo.site\/news\/local-artist-series-warwick-gow\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Artist Series \/\/ Warwick Gow"},"content":{"rendered":"
Who are you and what do you create?<\/strong> <\/p>\n What materials and techniques do you use? What kind of inspirations go into your work? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In what space do you like to create most? What has been your favourite or most important work to date? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nMy name is Warwick Gow, and I’m a portrait photographer based out of the Sunshine Coast. My work aims to challenge ideas around people and places, specifically on the Coast and around Brisbane, helping to personalise current socio-political issues.<\/p>\n
\nI work mainly with digital photography and try to minimise any post-processing work, focussing on capturing what I need for the image in camera and on the day. Generally, I facilitate shoots by creating safe spaces for people to be themselves \u2014 whatever that may mean to them. My role as a photographer is to ask the right questions, listen, and to capture that process.<\/p>\n
\nBesides having creative influences, I take most of my inspiration from the people I\u2019m working with and places I shoot in. By leaving room for a\u00a0sense of improvisation and play on shoots, I aim to be able to capture something true to the time and place.<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t have a specific place I like to create in per se, but I do find myself drawn to natural locations a lot of the time. One of my favourite things to do is to go hiking somewhere new with my camera and respond to places I find with self-portraits. It also helps to keep location scouting fun. My home studio is also somewhere I love to create in. I set up in my lounge room and invite friends around to test out different concepts.<\/p>\n
\nThis is hard to define as so many of my works have been stepping stones with no real defining moment.\u00a0But if I had to, I\u2019d say my self-portraits for Creative Spaces (in Residence)<\/a> during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020. It was the first time I\u2019d really published my self-portrait works, especially something so vulnerable. The response to those pieces has definitely encouraged me to explore that side of my practice more.<\/p>\n