Dr Elisa deCourcy
Dr Elisa deCourcy is an artist historian at the Australian National University. She is currently an Australian Research Council fellow, working on a project about the first fifteen years of photographic practice in the Australian colonies. Her research is informed by deep archival research, practice-led investigation and a rethinking of digital design for heritage collections of photography. For this series, she collaborated with historic processes photographer, Craig Tuffin, who is among one of a dozen artists working with the historic daguerreotype process internationally. Tuffin’s work is held in national and international collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the Tweed Heads Regional Gallery. A portrait in this series was made in collaboration with First Nations artist, James Tylor. Tylor is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose practice focuses largely on the history of the nineteenth century colonisation and its continual effect on the present-day. His work is held in numerous state,national and international collections including, the National Gallery of Australia and George Eastman Museum, Rochester.