Past Exhibitions - 2009
Toasty:
A Student Exchange Show from School of Art, Otago
29 July - 8 August 2009
Opening 5.30 PM Tuesday 28 July
Alt: Contemporary Photographers Explore Alternative Processes
Curated by Caroline McQuarrie
15-25 July 2009
Among the variety of processes and materials that are on display are cyanotypes, hand coloured analogue prints, photograms, solarigrafia, Polaroids, x-rays and digital ink-jet prints, often in various mixes.
Artists exhibiting: Michelle Aitken, Wayne Barrar, Andrew Beck, Andrea Bednarek, Rochelle Giles, Ryan Jellyman, Jonathan Kay, Monique Macfarlane, Richard Shepherd, Deidra Sullivan, Bonnie Stewart-Macdonald, Caroline McQuarrie, Shaun Matthews, and Olivia Taylor.
Popular Fictions
Curated by Abby Cunnane
28 May - 20 June 2009
Veronica Crockford-Pound
Meighan Ellis
Eve Gordon
Kristy Palleson
Molly Samsell
Gemma Syme
Virginia Woods-Jack
Image: Meighan Ellis
Sumi Ink Painting Workshop
Max Gimblett
21 May 2009
Image: Max Gimblett the sound of one hand – 7 – 10/5/05 2005. Sumi ink / Belgique Cotton and Linen Handmade Paper. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Gift
Slow/Fast
Alexandra Gaul
29 April – 16 May, 2009
Installation view, The Engine Room, inflatable letters (YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS. YOU CAN REMEMBER IT WHENEVER YOU WANT) c-prints, finds, drawings by about 600 pupils from Germany
For more on Alexandra’s practice, see:
One Day Sculpture: Reading Room
Curated by David Cross and Claire Doherty
12 -28 March 2009
Showcasing an assortment of documentary material including videos and writings on place based temporary sculpture, Reading Room will operate not as an exhibition but as a hub of research. Featuring the screenings of seminal work such as Javier Tellez’s One Flew Over the Void, and Francis Alÿs’ When Faith Moves Mountains, Reading Room will also make available extensive writings on artists associated with the One Day Sculpture Series.
For more on One Day Sculpture, see: https://www.situations.org.uk/projects/one-day-sculpture/#section--overview
Review by Max Delany in Frieze Magazine HERE
Documentary Photography
and the Fantasy of the Real
John Lake
24-29 February 2009, MFA exhibition
This thesis explores the epistemological shift in my photographic practice from an ethnographic position to that of surrealist documentary. In charting this shift I have considered the use of documentary photography by the historical Surrealist movement and the synthesis of surrealism and ethnography found in the English group Mass-Observation. The photograph’s oscillation between indexical record and mystical emanation forms a key position in understanding these two groups’s belief in the found image’s ability to describe a repressed reality located in the mass unconscious. — John Lake
Image: John Lake, The Dirt Gang, 2007