Bronwyn Kidd

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Bronwyn Kidd (born 1969) is an Australian photographer known for fashion and portraiture who formerly resided in London 1992-2004, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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Early life

Bronwyn Kidd was born in Melbourne in 1969 to Robert Kidd (Melbourne, 1940–2004), a butcher, and Barbara Kidd (née Wilson, in Melbourne, 1942-2022).[ citation needed ] She undertook her upper-secondary education at Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School 1983-1986, where, using her father's Pentax ME II Super, her interest in photography began. Moving up to a Canon F1 at RMIT University she undertook a Bachelor of Arts 1987-1989. There, lecturer Alex Syndikas [1] introduced her to the work of Sarah Moon and she discovered Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson and Athol Shmith, all of whose works were an influence on her.[ citation needed ]

Career

Eager to begin a career, Kidd left art school early, and she took work as an assistant to local fashion photographers. She soon moved to the United Kingdom, in 1992, where she worked with fellow Australian Polly Borland and fashion photographer Clive Arrowsmith. [2] At barely 23 years of age she was taken on by the Queen's couturier Sir Hardy Amies to shoot exclusively for his Savile Row seasonal collections and advertising. For these, she started to use a medium-format Rollei and hired famed British model Paula Hamilton. Kidd has expressed her angle on fashion as an admiration of beauty rather than mere 'sexiness'. [3]

Since 1988 a number of her portraits of fashion designers, including Bella Freud, [4] [5] Bruce Oldfield (OBE), [6] Caroline Charles [7] and shoe designer Jimmy Choo [8] have been on exhibition at, and are held in, the National Portrait Gallery, London. Of portraiture, Kidd has said;

"I have had wondrous conversations with people that I may never have met in my lifetime, let alone had dialogue with if I did not have a camera in my hand. The camera serves in many ways as a rite of passage, a privilege, an invitation." [9]

In 2004, Kidd moved back to Australia where she continued her success[ citation needed ], concentrating on advertising, but also continued her portraiture, capturing important Australian icons; actress Teresa Palmer, and photographer Bill Henson. Her portraits began to feature prominently in the national press, and subjects include Judge Betty King, Vicki Roach, Philip Lynch, Rob Story, Fiona Smith, Kon Karapanagiotidis, Maxine Morand, Daniel Andrews, Helen Silver, Rod Eddington, Lindsay Tanner, Greg Hunt, Bernie Finn, Carole Francis, and artists Bill Henson, Sam Leach and Gareth Samson. [10] In 2016 she co-created, with long-time collaborator the creative director Virginia Dowzer, the image used to promote the National Gallery of Victoria’s 200 Years of Australian Fashion exhibition. [11]

Kidd is represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne. [12]

Selected awards

Exhibitions

Collections

Works

Publications about Bronwyn Kidd

Publications of photographs

Selected editorial

Advertising campaigns

References

  1. Hulbert, Shane; Davies, Suzanne, ([writer of introduction],); RMIT Gallery (Melbourne, Vic.) (issuing body.) (2017), Photography 130 : behind the lens: 130 years of RMIT photography, Melbourne, Victoria RMIT Gallery, ISBN   978-0-9925156-5-2 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Kate Sears, 'Bronwyn isn’t kidding around,' in Mornington Peninsula Magazine, 25 June 2019, p.70
  3. "Flashpoint.(A2)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 12, 14 February 2009, ISSN   0312-6307
  4. "Bella Freud by Bronwyn Kidd, bromide fibre print, 1998 - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  5. "Bella Freud by Bronwyn Kidd, bromide fibre print, 1998 - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  6. "Bruce Oldfield by Bronwyn Kidd, bromide fibre print, 29 September 1997 - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  7. "Caroline Charles by Bronwyn Kidd, C-type colour print, 4 July 1997 - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  8. "Bronwyn Kidd - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  9. "About".
  10. "The (Top 100) 2008, Melbourne's Most Influential People". The (Melbourne) Magazine, The Age, issue 51. Fairfax Media. January 2009. pp. 80–81.
  11. 1 2 Petrov, Julia (7 February 2019), Fashion, history, museums : inventing the display of dress, Bloomsbury Visual Arts (published 2019), ISBN   978-1-350-04899-7
  12. "MARS Art Gallery Melbourne | Bronwyn Kidd" . Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  13. "Women in Photography Exhibition - Australian Photography". www.australianphotography.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  14. Spowart, Ruby; Smith, Sue, 1953-; Imagery Gallery (1992), Patterns in time : Ruby Spowart photographs 1982-1992 : a mid-career survey celebrating ten years of images and concepts, Imagery Gallery, ISBN   978-0-646-12135-2 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. "Chinese Connections - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  16. Money, Suzanne Carbone and Lawrence (3 March 2008). "This is one shot the paparazzi didn't get". The Age. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  17. Monash Gallery of Art (2008), WIlliam and Winifred Bowness photography prize 2008, Monash Gallery of Art
  18. "A Collins-class tribute to bushfire survivors". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 February 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  19. "200 Years of Australian Fashion: 90 designers celebrate the fashion industry". HUMA3. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  20. "New Living Arts Space exhibition pays homage to style | City of Greater Bendigo". www.bendigo.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  21. "Bronwyn Kidd". Fusebox Design. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  22. "Artists Talk: Bronwyn Kidd". Bendigo Tourism. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  23. "Bronwyn Kidd - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  24. "100 Fashion Icons". Sarah Daw. 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  25. "Dynasty: an opulent family affair - Fashionising.com" . Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  26. "Silver Snowflake Spreads : Queen by Bronwyn Kidd". TrendHunter.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  27. "Print ad: Victoria Racing Club: Flemington - The Playground of Racing Royalty". Best Ads on TV. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  28. "Print ad: Melbourne Writers Festival: War". Best Ads on TV. Retrieved 21 May 2019.