Artwork Info: Wilma Jr. (Blacky) from the series The Sport and Fair Play of Aussie Rules

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Wilma Jr. (Blacky) from the series The Sport and Fair Play of Aussie Rules

eric bridgeman (1986 –)

Australian multi-media artist Eric Bridgeman explores social & cultural issues through photography, performance & installation. Exhibited at Biennale of Sydney.

Ian Potter Museum of Art (Carlton, Australia)

The Ian Potter Museum of Art is a learning museum of the University of Melbourne, situated at the Parkville Campus. Admission is free. The Potter Museum of Art and The University of Melbourne acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. Continue

In the stadium, fans abandon conventional behaviour. Painted faces, multicoloured hair, garish costumes and raucous chants surround the game with a deranged carnival. Eric Bridgeman recognises the historical precedents of such behaviour; the medieval carnivals in which rude parody temporarily inverted social norms. In The Sport and Fair Play of Aussie Rules (2008-09), which incorporates photographs and videoed performances, Bridgeman presents players and fans as over-the-top harlequins, melding circus and Mardi-Gras festival. At the same time, Bridgeman maintains the confronting element of carnival. Chanting and stomping, intruding into the streets, Bridgeman