Vee Speers Australian, b. 1962

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"She shows beauty where beauty is terribly absent."

Karl Lagerfeld

For almost three decades, Australian-born artist Vee Speers has crafted a style of her own in portraiture, recognizable at first sight. In her Paris studio where she has been based since the early 1990s, she dresses, styles, and metamorphoses her subjects, leaving nothing to chance. From her learning years alongside her father, she retains a preference for black and white silver prints, which she then digitalizes to partially colorize. As a result, her portraits are timeless and liminal, as if caught between reality and fantasy, transience and permanence. Threading a coherent narrative throughout her nine series, Vee Speers builds a mythology of her own, exploring femininity, childhood and its mutations.

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Untitled #12, 2020
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Untitled #2, 2020
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Untitled #1, 2013
Untitled #32, 2013

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Speers’ work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, art fairs and festivals around the world. Her photographs have on the covers of over 60 international magazines and all three published monographs are sold out Her photographs have been acquired by Sir Elton John Collection, Michael Wilson Collection, Hoffman Collection U.S., Carter Potash Collection, Morten Viskum Collection, Alan Siegel, Lawrence Schiller, DZ Bank, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum 21C, Kentucky, George Eastman House, Beth Rudin Dewoody, Hudson Bay Company Art Fund, CB Collection, Tokyo.

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