Brad Rimmer - 'Nature Boy' (m/aco005)

Nature Boy is a sequel to Australian photographer Brad Rimmer’s monograph Silence (2009).

Probing at the essence of rural Australia and the emotional impact of the natural landscape upon individual psyches. The artist this time adds stories to the compendium. The raw, yet poetic narratives conjure the late adolescent years of a lad wrestling with whether to stay or leave his remote country homeland for the lure of the city and so much more. A coming-of-age account the elegant mix of observation and heartfelt reminiscence are almost autobiographical, and hint to the nascent sensibilities of the young Rimmer as an artist.

'Nature Boy is a story about the ordinary; failing high school, the romance and fantasy of falling in love with almost every girl I knew and the sadness of never giving too much away in the pursuit of it. It’s a narrative about the past and its recurrence in the present. Normality is never far away; it’s a narrative that plays out over and over again in a small town. It was 1981; I was nineteen, in limbo between teenage and adulthood, in youth and boredom drawn to the heady mix of cars and speed, sport and alcohol, any of life’s extremes that presented themselves. That year changed me.'

DIMENSIONS: 245mm x 355mm

PAGES: 96

AUTHORS: Brad Rimmer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brad Rimmer is an Australian photographer born and raised in the Western Australian Wheatbelt, now based in Fremantle (Walyalup). His work is a visual exploration of the cultural and psychological landscapes of Western Australia and beyond, probing the fragile connections between memory, time, and identity that bind us to place.

This item is available in Store at Midland Junction Arts Centre and at Mundaring Arts Centre.