Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt, as perhaps already mentioned, is the other Indigenous artist that I'm using in my comparative essay. I've been finding out a lot about her, and her work, and although I had already heard about her before starting this essay, I had never really read much more into her and her work until starting this essay.
I borrowed out a DVD on Moffatt called "Up In the Sky", which was about her and her work, and I found the way she spoke about her work really interesting, and although you're able to tell it's quite an old documentary about her, I thought that it really showed off her personally.
I think one think I liked most was at one point she was describing to a few people how she had wanted them to feel when viewing her work, and she explained that it was almost like a state of boredem, that great ideas came from boredem and that was where one of her films, "Heaven", came from as she was bored one day while working and started filming some guys across the road that were out side getting changed after surfing, and Moffatt thought that she would never use it again or not for a piece of work at least.

Tracey Moffatt: "Heaven", 1997.

Christian Thompson

I have been researching Christian Thompson for my comparative artist essay, which I have been finding to be really interesting. As a teenager he was inspired by Tracey Moffatt who is the other artist I have been researching for my essay.
Christian Thompson is well known for mimicking other artists, and he has done this with Tracey Moffatt in his photography titled "In Search Of The International Look". In this photograph Thompson has dressed up and presented him self just as Tracey Moffatt did in her own self portrait, which was done for an article titled "Tracey Moffatt: The International Look". 
I think there is a really big similarity in the photographs and find that Thompson's reasons are really interesting, and its almost like he is paying homage to Moffatt in this photograph. 

- Christain Thompson: "In Search Of The International Look". 190 x 127cm

Tracey Moffatt: Self Portrait, 1999, hand-coloured photograph, 33.5 x 22cm

Obviously the location for each photograph is different, but I think that Christian Thompson has been able to capture the same stance and feeling to make the image almost believable.