{"id":36752,"date":"2020-09-22T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=36752"},"modified":"2020-09-21T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:59:33","slug":"the-zealous-set-george-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/the-zealous-set-george-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zealous Set | George Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Art Zealous contributor Alexandra Fanning talks with Australian photographer George Byrne about the artist’s new home environment and muse for his first monograph, Los Angeles. <\/em> In our series, The Zealous Set, we talk to the artists catching our attention about what they\u2019re creating, watching, reading, and what they\u2019re being inspired by. This week we chat with George Byrne, whose large-scale photographs depict the beauty behind everyday banal, about when inspiration hits, a new Eagles documentary, and his upcoming book, Post Truth.<\/em><\/strong> Can you walk us through your process? How do you find such perfect minimalist settings?<\/strong> My process is essentially staying alert to my surroundings and looking for a seed of an idea in the world around me. I take a lot of photographs and more recently since I\u2019ve also been experimenting with assemblage, so I also keep my eyes out for \u201csections\u201d of photographs that I can add to something I\u2019m already working on. There is this mysteriously beautiful, often unsettling emptiness to the LA urban street life. Its raw aesthetics are all washed out pastel planes, run down 80\u2019s architecture. It\u2019s kind of playful and post-apocalyptic all at once. I think it\u2019s primarily the light, the air and the buildings and the fact that there are so few pedestrians that you get to see things really clearly and unimpeded. It\u2019s a strangely beautiful place. What does a day in your studio look like? Do you set out looking for your next best shot first thing or do you plan out where you\u2019ll be shooting that day? Does it come to you organically or is there research involved?<\/strong> My day-to-day is pretty varied depending on what work I have due and where I am in the exhibition cycle, but normally I try to get down to the studio by 9am. During the day I\u2019m either there working on pictures or admin stuff (heads-up all budding artists there is an enormous amount of admin in this game). I\u2019m basically either working towards a series for a show at a gallery, or printing work for private sales. The taking of pictures is mostly a very random process, I get hit with creative inspiration at odd times (usually after coffee) and try to keep my medium format film cameras in the car at all times.\u00a0
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