"Vale St". Image courtesy of National Gallery of Australia
The first time I heard of Carol Jerrems was some years ago when I stumbled across a late night documentary on SBS. I felt an instant resonance with her work, a youthful reflection of life in 70s Australia, a time characterised by social change and a generational revolution. Jerrems used her work to document the turbulence and quickly developed her signature style. This included group shots of friends and lovers in raw and realistic settings. Urban indigenous groups and strong women feature heavily in her works, as well as other sub cultures such as sharpie gangs (which I've recently learned were an anti hippy and mods cult movement), proving she didn't let her own ideologies dictate her work.
Sadly, Jerrems died before her 31st birthday of a rare cancer. All her works were bequeathed to the National Gallery of Australia.
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