Combining a love for art and film, Lâle has been mucking around with a video camera since the age of eight years old. She has been creating a series of surrealist inspired moving images since 2021. The first three videos were exhibited in the International Women's Day WOMXN exhibition at Mothership Studios in Marrickville, March, 2021. Profits were donated to Samaritan House and Women's Family Service. |
In alignment with ideas of surrealism this work is an illumination of the subconscious. Seemingly mundane objects may evoke strange and beautiful experiences. Three women appear isolated in their own worlds, perhaps like different interpretations of Breton’s Nadja — an enigmatic and unpredictable young woman.
The fourth video in the series was shot in 2023 featuring her mother Diana Jeffrey, edited on a whim, and screened at the inaugural silent film festival Shooshfest in Sydney, 2024. Lâle intends to make more of these videos, probably featuring a theatre of marionettes. Watch this space!
Lâle recently exhibited her pastels in a group show at Good Space Gallery, Sydney, 2024. Lâle had a photograph printed in the Australian Centre for Photographys’ hard copy book Blow Up celebrating 40 years of ACP, published 2015.
Lâle's underwater photography received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards, 2016. She has also filmed underwater music videos for German-Australian band Lalume, and photographed the album cover ‘Unbreakable’ for indigenous singer Jess Hitchcock. A triptych of Lâle’s photography accompanied by her poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books, and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter 2018, ‘Escape Artists Anthology’.
Lâle's underwater photography received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards, 2016. She has also filmed underwater music videos for German-Australian band Lalume, and photographed the album cover ‘Unbreakable’ for indigenous singer Jess Hitchcock. A triptych of Lâle’s photography accompanied by her poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books, and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter 2018, ‘Escape Artists Anthology’.
Pastels, 2021-2024
Inspired by a combination of Fauvism and Australian artists such as Albert Namatjira, Sidney Nolan, etc.
Some were exhibited in a group show at Good Space Gallery 2024
Inspired by a combination of Fauvism and Australian artists such as Albert Namatjira, Sidney Nolan, etc.
Some were exhibited in a group show at Good Space Gallery 2024
Adventures into the Underworld 2016-2018
Featuring Jess Hitchcock, Lauren Eiko, Waangenga Blanco, Madeline Baghurst, and Aurielle Sciorilli
For 'Unbreakable' album cover by Jess Hitchcock.