Gary McLeod
(33 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Portsmouth)
Camberwell College of Art, UAL
After coming to Japan in 2003, I set about documenting all of the traffic lights and escalators of Osaka before moving to Tokyo in 2007. Whilst exhibiting and teaching during that time, I spent the two years researching the HMS Challenger's visit to Japan in 1875 for my MA with support from the AHRC. As a “gaijin”, my field of interest and practice act both as a "window" and a "mirror" between Japan and the UK, whilst expl ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
Through conducting visual research, I wish to build a collection of photographic documents titled “Privilege”. Using a Victorian eye (an 1878 Dallmeyer British lens), this series of documents will record typical migrant workers in Japan. These migrant workers are in fact English teachers who have found themselves working and existing in a culture and society that is not their own and one that they could never be a complete part of. However, it is also a culture, which many find hard to leave. Many come to Japan for different reasons yet despite these teachers being a necessary workforce in Japan, they are an unspoken export of English speaking cultures. This series of photographic documents aims to draw attention to these migrant workers by recording and preserving them with a Victorian eye in unison with a Japanese mind (Nikon Digital SLR camera) referencing the underlying and equally unspoken Japanese influence in contemporary digital mediums. These documents will be a testament to the unsung facilitators of the English language, preserving them for future reference. There may be no need for them in 25 years time so a record of them now would be vital.
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My Artworks (6)
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