Today we’d like to introduce you to Gracie Drinkwater.
Gracie, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I’ve always lived for being in front of a camera. As a kid every time a camera was near I was making funny faces, posing like a maniac or photo bombing family portraits. I loved the idea of some family hanging this beautiful family picture and I’m in the background making the most atrocious face you can imagine. My dad gave me the gift of being able to make really bizarre faces.
There’s an album somewhere from middle school on an old computer of about 1000 selfies of me making as many weird expressions as I could. I’m very lucky that I’ve never had an issue with appearing ugly or weird, I think that’s an important trait for models or actors. Around the same time, I watched a lot of America’s Next Top Model with my friends and we would try to copy the photoshoots they did by putting on weird make up and clothes. Even though we were just messing around, I think this built a lot of the foundation I apply to modeling now, knowing where light is, creating interesting shapes, getting into character, etc.
High school was when I started getting into fashion and photography, I went to a wonderful high school where I was able to take wearable art and photo classes. My senior project was photographing girls who I found to have interesting features and creating vogue-esque images interpreting American idioms or puns. I think being raised in a household and school that fostered so much experimentation and creativity gave birth to my love life with the camera.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
A lot of the ideas in my pictures come from the photographer’s vision and it’s my job to embody what they have in mind. My goal as a model is to inspire some sort of reaction from a viewer, whether it be confusion or fear or curiosity. I love when I look at a photo that utterly grosses me out, I love when I fall in love with a woman in a photograph, despite not knowing who she is. I love when I look at a photo and my mind start writing a story. I hope my work has done at least one of these things.
What would you recommend to an artist new to the city, or to art, in terms of meeting and connecting with other artists and creatives?
I’ve met some great people through Instagram, just keep it safe, get references, make sure your people know where you are etc. I’ve been lucky to have such creative friends and friends of friends that networking has been very easy for me. I’ve also met a lot of people from bartending and serving, especially when I worked in Cambridge.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: GracieDrinkwater
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