CURRENT EXHIBITION
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SIMON DEVITT
I see you there
February 5 - 26
dry songs finger the index-2009/2010/1/4 mind like a floating white cloud-2007/2010/1/4
i will be the irresistible misfit - 2006/2010/1/4
when you come to gates of go - 2002/2010/1/4
a transparent white lie about leaping - 2008/2010/1/4
eye deep - 2006/2010/1/4
hold - 2006/2010/1/4
as if the snow should hesitate - 2007/2010/1/4
if calm be after tempest - 2009/2010/1/4
philosophy is not for young men - 2007/2010/1/4
i'm not at the bottom - 2009/2010/1/4
drop - 2009/2010/1/4
delicate black hand - 2009/2010/1/4
four words to a step - 2009/2010/1/4
pane - 2008/2010/1/4
i could start again with a clean sheet - 2009/2010/1/4
beauty is difficult - 2007/2010/1/4
Additional images Simon Devitt ARTISTS page
Digital photographs printed as Lightjet on Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk 310 gsm
Numbers 2 [transparency film], 3 and 4 [negatives] are analogue photographs, scanned and printed as above.
edition includes one artist copy
Prints available in two sizes :
810 x 594 mm [portrait] 650 x 440 mm [image]
620 x 840mm [landscape] 460 x 690mm [image]
580 x 420 mm [portrait] 473 x 315 mm [image]
438 x 593mm [landscape] 330 x 490mm [image]
I see
I see you
I see you there
We trust our eyes too much. The picture is not always what they insist it must be. The other senses are profoundly important in how we view the scene. In truth, the camera is the mechanism that takes care of the visual element. It's nature is to attempt to capture the real. That is not the challenge for me. My pursuit is to capture the whisperings of the architecture, to represent how it feels to be there.
I always spend time being still in the environment I am charged with photographing. I listen as much as I watch. I wait to hear its breath. This is how I find what is really in the space.
Perhaps my approach is a dichotomy to what we expect a photograph to provide. I want to strip the image of the artificial. I want to expose its heartbeat, seduce it. I want to hear it. I want it naked.
Simon Devitt I See You There
Julia Gatley
‘I hope they don ' t Photoshop the rubbish bins out', said Simon Devitt about one of the 100 or so photographs he took for my 2008 book, Long Live the Modern: New Zealand ' s New Architecture , 1904 -1984 (AUP).
The rubbish bins were permitted to stay, an elemen t of surprise in an otherwise pristine image.
Simon has done further work for me in 2009: new photographs of 50 buildings for a book on Group Architects. Sometimes I identify elevations or spaces or elements that need to be photographed because they are discussed in the text; on other occasions I leave the shoot to Simon ' s discretion and judgment.
More than his professional eye for composition, it is the physical traces of life that I have come to look forward to in his work. These include signs of the ordinary and the everyday, made extraordinary when they appear unexpectedly: in an elevational shot, symmetry might be broken and the image enlivened by a light or a switch or a branch or the owner hanging out the washing; timber walls, floors and ceilings might flanked or framed or interrupted by a burst of colour; patina is allowed to tell the tales of the lives lived in the architecture.
Life and the unexpected are attributes of Simon ' s exhibition photographs too. Roads and stairs suggest journeys; br icks, blocks and stones invite touch; white walls, floors and ceilings are shared by interior and exterior worlds. ‘Simon, I see you have an eye for detail'.
Julia Gatley ' s new book Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture (AUP) will be lau nched in October 2010.
touring exhibition to
a serious kind of beauty the heroic landscape
Wayne Barrar
Frank J. Denton
Simon Devitt
Peter Evans
Derek Henderson
Arthur J. Iles
John Johns
Muir & Moodie
William Partington
Peter Peryer
Haruhiko Sameshima
Ann Shelton
Henry Winkelmann
FEBRUARY 12- MARCH 28
This exhibition is reviewed in the Autumn edition of Art New Zealand [issue 133]
DEREK HENDERSON
[b 1963 ]
Huntly Power Station, Huntly, 2007/2009/1/4
510 x 655 mm
C-type photograph enlarged from 10 x 8” negative
MUIR & MOODIE
[George Moodie c.1865 – 1947]
Head of Lake Wakatipu from Pigeon Island
130 x 190 mm
albumen contact print
ARTHUR ILES
[1870 – 1943]
Eruption at Rotomahana Lake 1901
135 x 190 mm
albumen contact print
WAYNE BARRAR
[b 1957]
Gorge on Moawhango / tunnel structures 1994/1996/3/3
248 x 373 mm
gold toned gelatin silver print
PETER PERYER
[b 1941]
McRaes Flat Gold Mine, 2007/2008/3/15
600 x 800 mm
digital photograph, printed as C-type [Lambda] on Kodak Lustre paper
ARTHUR ILES
[1870 – 1943]
Wairoa Falls
190 x 130 mm
albumen contact print
HENRY WINKELMANN
[1861 – 1931]
Wairua Falls, Whangarei, 1906
305 x 390mm
gelatin silver print; negative [#1356] is in Auckland Museum Collection
WILLIAM PARDINGTON
[1855 – 1940]
‘Rapids & men'
140 x 190 mm
albumen contact print
MUIR & MOODIE
[George Moodie c.1865 – 1947]
Parakino, Wanganui River
130 x 190 mm
albumen contact print
JOHN JOHNS
[1924 – 1999]
Large Rimu, Stony Creek, Reefton , 1950s
265 x 210 mm
gelatin silver print, printed by the photographer.
HARUHIKO SAMESHIMA
[b 1958]
Waipoua, Te Matua Ngahere track, (kauri forest board walk) 1994 / 2005/1
410 x 320mm
gold toned gelatin silver print, from 4 x 5” negative, open edition, sequentially-numbered
JOHN JOHNS
[1924 – 1999]
Tane Mahuta
265 x 190 mm
gelatin silver print, printed by the photographer.
HARUHIKO SAMESHIMA
[b 1958]
Dean Forest , Southland (totara forest board walk) 1995 / 2005/1
410 x 320mm
gold toned gelatin silver print, from 4 x 5” negative, open edition, sequentially-numbered
ANN SHELTON
[b 1967]
Landschaft , The Bridge to Nowhere , Mangapurua Valley , Wanganui, 2007/2007/5/7
diptych; each half: 740 x 930 mm
8 X 10” negative printed as C-type
PETER EVANS
[b 1985 ]
Homer Tunnel, Milford Sound , 2008/2009/1/5
400 x 600mm
Epson 11880, K3 Ultrachrome Inkjet, on Hannemuhle 310 gsm Bright White Photo Rag Fine Art Paper
Catchment at Falls Dam, Naseby , 2008/2009/1/5
Te Apiti Wind Farm #3, Palmerston North , 2008/2009/1/5
Lake Ohau , MacKenzie Country, 2008/2009/1/5
Ohau C Hydroelectric Power Station #1, MacKenzie Country, 2008/2009/1/5
Lake Rotoiti , Nelson , 2008/2009/1/5
WAYNE BARRAR
[b 1957]
Beneath Bowen Falls to Mitre Peak , Fiordland 2000/2007/19/20
160 x 220 mm
selenium toned gelatin silver print
WAYNE BARRAR
[b 1957]
Point,
Western Lake Wairarapa 2008/2008/ 2/10
190 x 240 mm
selenium toned gelatin silver print.
SIMON DEVITT
[b 1973 ]
Waning crescent 2007/2009/1/3
560 x 840 mm
digital photograph printed as Lightjet on Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk 310 gsm
JOHN JOHNS
[1924 – 1999]
Newly built Murchison Hut, 1953
160 x 205 mm
gelatin silver print, printed by the photographer
ARTHUR ILES
[1870 – 1943]
Waimangu Geyser Computed height 900 feet, 1904
130 x 190 mm
albumen contact print
ARTHUR ILES
[1870 – 1943]
‘Untitled', c. 1904
130 x 190 mm
albumen contact print
POSTCARDS
FRANK J. DENTON
[1870 – 1963]
Manawatu George, NZ
On the Wanganui River NZ
The Waterfall Cave Scene ( 5 miles above Pipiriki)
On the Wanganui River
W. PARTINGTON
[1855 – 1940]
On the Wanganui River
The photographs in this exhibition act by portraying a ‘scene' in terms that are familiar and that emphasize its accessibility and at the same time, its grandeur.
Human aspirations, endeavour and industry existing in harmony with, and in awe of, nature; leaving a small human imprint.
An equilibrium is suggested, between the formality of the man-made and the immensity of the land – the appearance of the land is left undisturbed.
Figures often function as indices of a relationship between explorer and the object of exploration – often dwarfed by immense vistas – the relation between human beings and the vast landscape. [1]
These photographs explore the conceptual aspects of landscape and its impact on contemporary thought.
They are depictions of place, where ‘place' becomes a cultural construct, incorporating the factors of time and the narratives contained within the landscape, places where events accumulate. They have a presence beyond the mere representation of nature in the raw; the unknown, often alienating character of land.
A serious kind of beauty [2] is our third exhibition specifically examining the landscape genre, and follows on from:
Nicholas Twist and Burton Bros / Muir & Moodie Photographs of Southern New Zealand - two views,
and
Laurence Aberhart, Mark Adams, and Wayne Barrar the long view [polyptych landscape panoramas].
Other ‘categories' within the genre include: New Topographics, the sublime, and wilderness photography.
[1] Landscape and Power
W.J.T. Mitchell [ed.]
Chapter six Territorial Photography , Joel Snyder
University of Chicago Press, 1994
[2] Photography and Australia – [Exposures] 2007
Helen Ennis
Reaktion Books
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2002
Peter Black Moving Pictures
MARCH
Nicholas Twist and Burton Bros / Muir
& Moodie Photographs of Southern
New Zealand-two views
APRIL
Paul Johns A Perfect Childhood
MAY
Peter Peryer Significant Early Photographs
JUNE
Gordon H. Burt & Fiona Clark In
the Pursuit of Beauty and Perfection
JULY
Laurence Aberhart The Interior
AUGUST
Gordon H. Brown Hotel North America series
Robin Neate Photographs
SEPTEMBER
Rhondda Bosworth 44 Photographs 1974 - 1999
OCTOBER
Wayne Wilson Popular Dance Culture 2001 - 2002
NOVEMBER
Wayne Barrar STRAUMUR: Photographs from Southern
Iceland
DECEMBER
John Johns A Life's Work: a selection of
photographs 1950 - 1996
JANUARY 2003
THE CARAVAN group show 28 artists
...toured to: Pataka
[Porirua], The Suter [Nelson] 2003 & Lake Taupo Museum &
Art Gallery [Taupo] 2004
FEBRUARY
Jono Rotman Chambers Project
Laurence Aberhart Interior
MARCH
Ben Cauchi New Ambrotypes & Building
the Empire
APRIL
Fiona Pardington Whakakitenga / Revelation
MAY
Hamish Tocher Scenes from the Life of Christ
JUNE
Peter Peryer www.peryer.co.nz
JULY
Ava Seymour New Work & Heartlands
AUGUST
Neil Hamon [UK] living history
David van Royen [Australia] himself
SEPTEMBER
Ross T. Smith Stations of the Cross & selected
photographs 1998 - 2000
OCTOBER
John Daley Big Smoke
NOVEMBER
Laurence Aberhart Mission Heliographique Extracts:
1999 - 2003
DECEMBER
TRACING POLAROID SX-70 Janet Bayly, Gary
Blackman, Rhondda Bosworth, Dinah Bradley, Greg Burke, Belinda
Fowler,
Paul Gilbert, Paul Hartigan, Paul Johns, Nikolai
Kokx, Belinda Lodge, Len Wesney, Jane Zusters.
JANUARY 2004
Tracing Polaroid continued
FEBRUARY
Fiona Amundsen Wooden
MARCH
Bruce Connew Muttonbirds - part of a story
LINK SPAN FESTIVAL EXHIBITION, during NZ International Festival of the Artis, Taranaki Wharf, Wellington
Peter Peryer & Andrew Ross
APRIL
Wayne Barrar Selections from the Home Range
MAY
Hayden Fritchley Lattice of Coincidence
JUNE
Ann Shelton Vacant Possession
JULY
Len Wesney 34 Photographs 1967-1975
AUGUST
Len Wesney continued
SEPTEMBER
Wayne Wilson Three Kings & Downtown
OCTOBER
Natalie Robertson One Hundred Years
True EVERY Word
NOVEMBER
Grant Beran Everyone Says Hi
DECEMBER 04 - JANUARY
2005
FICTION Max Coolahan, Darren
Glass, Lloyd Godman, Gavin Hipkins,
John Johns, Alan Knowles, Ian Macdonald, Tanja Nola
FEBRUARY
Peter Peryer Big
MARCH
Hamish Tocher Reminiscences & El Aspostolado
APRIL
Peter Black Public
MAY
Anne Noble White Lantern Antarctic photographs
2002 - 2005
PHOTO-LONDON 2005
Laurence Aberhart, Mark Adams, Ben Cauchi, Derek Henderson, Paul Johns,
Fiona Pardington, Neil Pardington, Peter Peryer, Ava Seymour
JUNE
Ben Cauchi In a smoke filled room
JULY
Derek Henderson The Terrible Boredom Of Paradise
AUGUST
Joyce Campbell Cellars and Towers
VERBATIM...revelation to oblivion Lopdell House Gallery [Auckland] August -October 2005
National Library Gallery [Wellington] April - July 2006
Laurence Aberhart, Peter Black, Gary Blackman, Rhondda Bosworth, Ben Cauchi Bruce Connew, John Daley,
Hayden Fritchley, Derek Henderson, Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Neil Pardington, Peter Peryer, Natalie Robertson,
Ann Shelton, Hamish Tocher, Ans Westra, Wayne Wilson
&
catalogue essay by Peter Simpson
SEPTEMBER
Max Oettli Bringing It All Back Home
OCTOBER
Haru Sameshima Twin Peaks Selected photographs
from eco-Tourism 1988 - 2004
NOVEMBER
Fiona Pardington Without you
DECEMBER 05 - JANUARY 2006
Laurence Aberhart domestic architecture [with catalogue raisonne] & Nine Masonic Lodges in Canterbury
FEBRUARY
Rhondda Bosworth Exhibit A
MARCH
Paul Johns
APRIL
Mark Adams Photographs 1979 - 2002
MAY
Neil Pardington Interiors
JUNE
Victoria Webb Full-length and Front-on
JULY
Ben Cauchi last days
AUGUST
Richard Collins Photographs 1962 - 1997
SEPTEMBER
Fiona Amundsen Garden Place
OCTOBER
Lisa Crowley West
NOVEMBER
Hamish Tocher Unknown Renaissance Portraits
DECEMBER
06 - JANUARY 2007
Peter Peryer Summertime
FEBRUARY
Ann Shelton 26 photographs of a house
MARCH
Elaine Campaner [Australia] Paradise if you can stand it
APRIL
the long view [landscape panoramas]
Laurence
Aberhart
Mark Adams
Wayne
Barrar
NEW
ZEALAND LEGACY Aotearoa
Taonga-tuku-iho
Commissioned by N.Z. Ministry for Culture &
Heritage
April - May Singapore
May Hong Kong
Laurence
Aberhart, Mark Adams, Wayne Barrar, Peter Black, Fiona Clark,
Ian Macdonald,
Fiona
Pardington, Peter Peryer, Ans Westra & Wayne Wilson-Wong
&
catalogue essay by Peter Simpson: Legacy: Fifteen Photographs
from New Zealand
MAY
the long view [continued]
Laurence Aberhart
Mark Adams
Wayne Barrar
AUCKLAND ART FAIR 2007
Mark
Adams, Peter Black, Gary
Blackman, Rhondda Bosworth, Murray Cammick, Ben Cauchi,
Fiona Clark, Richard
Collins,
Bruce Connew, John Daley, John Fields, Frank Hofmann, John Johns,
Anne
Noble, Max
Oettli, Fiona Pardington, Neil Pardington,
Peter Peryer, Hamish Tocher,
Len Wesney & Ans
Westra
JUNE
Fiona
Pardington the heart derelict
MOVING STILL
Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, June
- July
Janet
Bayly, Minerva Betts , Peter Black, Gary Blackman,
Rhondda Bosworth, Elaine Campaner*, Joyce Campbell, Ben Cauchi,
George
Chance, Bruce Connew, Daniel Crooks* , Jennifer French , Hayden
Fritchley , Darren Glass, Murray Hedwig, Gavin Hipkins,
Nikolai Kokx, Len Lye, Anne Noble, Max Oettli, Trent Parke*, Patrick
Reynolds, Lucien Rizos, Natalie Robertson, John Savage,
Ann Shelton & Jane Zusters [* Australia]
&
catalogue essay by Dr Jan Bryant
JULY
Mark Adams Spa Hotel
AUGUST
Ans Westra on reflection
SEPTEMBER
Anne Ferran [Australia] & Anne Noble
our fathers
OCTOBER
Richard Barraud Being for the Benefit of
Mr Kite: Photographs 1965 - 1975
NOVEMBER
Derek
Henderson I go down to the river to pray
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2008
TOOLS OF SURVIVAL: contemporary
photographers using 19C processes
Alan Bekhuis, Joyce Campbell, Ben
Cauchi, Dan Estabrook [USA] & Aaron Seeto [Australia]
A region observed: Hawke's Bay photographs by Laurence Aberhart Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery December 07- March 08
FEBRUARY
Neil Pardington the
vault
MARCH
Wayne Wilson Wong Tamaki Pà
Joyce Campbell - LA Botanical Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery March - October
APRIL
Perter Peryer Voices and Echoes - an on-line exhibition
MAY
Laurence Aberhart AN EXHIBITION OF NEW PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAURENCE ABERHART DISPLAYING A RANGE OF NOT PREVIOUSLY SEEN,
OR RARELY SEEN IMAGES IN BOTH PRE AND POST CONTEMPORARY STYLES
CLOSE-UP: contemporary
contact prints Gus
Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, May - July
Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, August
Laurence Aberhart, Mark Adams, Wayne Barrar, Joyce Campbell, Ben Cauchi, Darren Glass, Fiona Pardingto, Andrew Ross, Haruhiko Sameshima
&
catalogue introduction by Athol McCredie, curator of Photography
Museum of NZ Te Papa Tongarewa
JUNE
Hamish Tocher Illuminated Books
JULY
Ann Shelton hall of mirrors
AUGUST
Marian Drew [Australia] Australiana
Richard Orjis Landslide
SEPTEMBER
Peter Black Outskirts
OCTOBER
John Johns Nature as an object for rational study – a thoroughly modernist approach
Selected photographs 1950s - 1993
NOVEMBER
Fiona Amundsen Miracle on the Han River
Frank Breuer [Germany] Poles
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2009
Fiona Pardington Journey of the Sensualist:selected photographs 1987 - 2008
FEBRUARY
Geoffrey Heath North Shore FX
MARCH
Ben Cauchi Epilogue [tintypes]
APRIL gallery closed
MAY
AUCKLAND ART FAIR 2009
Laurence Aberhart, Rhondda Bosworth, Ben Cauchi, Marian Drew [Australia],
Dan Estabrook [USA],Anne Ferran [Australia]
Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington & Ann Shelton
RECENT: work
by ten NZ photographers Tauranga Art Gallery,
May - July
Laurence Aberhart, Fiona Amundsen, Wayne Barrar, Joyce Campbell,
Ben Cauchi, Derek Henderson, Paul Johns, Richard Orjis, Fiona
Pardington & Hamish Tocher
JUNE
Janet Bayly & Nikolai Kokx Dwelling
Te Arawa Matariki Festival exhibition: Ans Westra on relection Rotorua Museum of Art & History June - July
JULY
Laurence Aberhart Heavy metal [platinum prints]
AUGUST
Terry O'Connor Selected photographs 1976–1980s
SEPTEMBER
Paul Johns
OCTOBER
Murray Lloyd Scenes in Maoriland
NOVEMBER
Mark Adams Te Wairoa ~ Clandon Park (Tene Waitere's travels)
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2010
A serious kind of beauty: the heroic landscape
Wayne Barrar [b 1957], Frank J. Denton [1870 – 1963], Simon Devitt [b 1973], Peter Evans [b 1985 ]
Derek Henderson [b 1963 ], Arthur Iles [1870 – 1943], John Johns [1924 – 1999]
Muir & Moodie [George Moodie c.1865 – 1947], William Partington [1855 – 1940], Peter Peryer [b 1941]
Haruhiko Sameshima [b 1958], Ann Shelton [b 1967] & Henry Winkelmann [1861 – 1931]
FEBRUARY
Simon Devitt I see you there
A serious kind of beauty: the heroic landscape ARATOI Wairarapa Museum of Art & History February - March
MARCH
Ann Shelton a ride in the darkness
Terry O'Connor Te Manawa o Tuhoe Whakatane Museum & Gallery March - May
APRIL gallery closed
MAY
Hamish Tocher Time's New Roman
JUNE
Joyce Campbell
JULY
James Lowe
KIN The New Zealand Portrait Gallery / Te Pukenga Whakaata, Wellington July – October
AUGUST
Peter Evans
SEPTEMBER
David van Royen [Australia] Not Moving
OCTOBER
Peter Peryer
NOVEMBER
Anne Noble
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2011
FEBRUARY
Richard Orjis
MARCH
Ben Cauchi
APRIL gallery closed
MAY
Alan Bekhuis
AUCKLAND ART FAIR 2011
JUNE
Haru Sameshima
JULY
Sightseeing NZ & German postcards BLOGSPOT
Sightseeing with Mark Adams, Fiona Amundsen, Karin Apollonia Müller, Wayne Barrar, Frank Breuer,
John Di Stefano, Jeremy Diggle, Elger Esser, Doris Frohnapfel, Eva Leitolf, Anne Noble, Haruhiko Sameshima,
Sarah Schönfeld, Grit Schwedtfeger & Ann Shelton
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2012
