Contemporary - Fine Art Photography by Niki Hill

The ideas presented explore fashion, desire, and consumerism, drawing on the connections between dreams, human emotion, fairy tales, fantasy, and contemporary brand culture.

The fashion accessory, the “opulux item” ( high fashion/luxury handbag, high-heeled shoes), becomes “still-life” photography or oil painting, exploring the ephemeral nature of fashion and the fantasy or pathos of the purchase.

These images appear like unusual or disturbing archetypes from the collective psychic unconscious, unthinkable and unexplainable.

Shattered glass, pohutukawa flower and shark carcass, all intricately fused into objects of desire, are just some of the subjects of this alluring series of digital photographs and paintings by artist Niki Hill.

Fashion accessories are subverted into social commentary and subtle culture jamming, challenging our consumer behaviour and questioning our self-awareness.