TRACEY SCHRAMM

ABOUT TRACEY SCHRAMM

Originally trained as a professional theatre photographer, Tracey Schramm has recently channeled her creative energy into her love of oil painting. Her works insightfully shed light on the beauty of ordinary objects, cultivating a conversation between simple items within each painting.

Still Lifes:
Tracey Schramm’s Oil paintings capture the fleeting beauty of nature’s creations such as blooming flowers and fresh vegetation. These paintings also feature minimalistic objects, often of a culinary variety, personified and archived in carefully composed still lifes. These pieces observe how light and shadow dance around everyday objects.

Interior Spaces:
These pieces explore obscure spaces. These locations are often absent of people, focusing more on the structure and persona of the space itself as well as the way shadow will transform a room.

Artist History:
Tracey Schramm is a Sydney Based Photographer working in the medium of both silver based and digital media. She is also a painter specialising in an oil based medium, who favours still lifes as her chosen subject matter. Studied for 4 years Professional Photographic Diploma TAFE Broadway. Lives with her family in Drummoyne, Sydney Australia. At the age of 24 years old began working as a freelance photographer, working as a stills photographer on feature films and television. Then specialising in stills for theatre. Her first theatre production was for Belvoir Street Theatre, Les Enfants du Paradis starring Geoffrey Rush. In 1993 became production photographer for Phantom of the Opera produced by Cameron Mackintosh /Really Useful Company Melbourne. In 1994 began a long working relationship with the Sydney Theatre Company as there Production Stills Photographer. Plays such as Oleanna starring Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett in one of her first plays after NIDA. Over the years have photographed many productions, working with Australia’s finest actors such as Ruth Cracknell, John Bell, Bryan Brown, Gary McDonald, Jackie Weaver, Barry Otto, Rose Byrne, Pamela Rabe the list is long. Working with so many talented actors and production professionals who work behind the scenes of theatre. Tracey also became the Sydney Opera House Resident photographer responsible for promoting and archiving many events at the House. Other Clients include Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Bell Shakespeare Company, Stables Theatre, Belvoir Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Marion Street Theatre, Glen Street Theatre, Really Useful Company, and University of Sydney.

1996-2001 lectured at 3 Arts Makeup Centre on photography makeup and lighting.
1998-2001 lectured at University of Sydney, Centre for Performance Studies –photography stills and performance.

Tracey is as the current production photographer for ATYP, a role she has been in since 1990.