CURRENT EXHIBITION
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Outreach
/
touring exhibitions are
posted further down this page
Loans of photographs to public gallery group exhibitions are posted on our NEWS page
JOHN DALEY
Thirteen: New Zealand Writers, 1992
February 3 – 24 *
Click HERE to see earlier work by John
Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee, Margaret Mahy, Albert Wendt, Owen Marshall, Patricia Grace, Brian Boyd,
Keri Hume, Maurice Shadbolt, Lauris Edmond, Marilyn Duckworth, Bill Manhire and Janet Frame
John Daley [b.1946] decided at thirteen that he wanted to spend his life taking photographs.
Of his experience in photographing thirteen New Zealand writers, he says: "Writers seem generally to be great homebodies, reluctant to venture forth from their own territory to be photographed however much travelling they might do inside their heads. They don't appear to place any great importance on the environment in which they are seen, compared with other kinds of people I have photographed. This special reserve makes them difficult subjects - they live by their words and their visions of life are largely private. They don't see themselves as being externalised in real settings, perhaps because they are so used to conjuring up the whole scene themselves."
The writers were chosen for this project by the fiction writer, publishing consultant and literary agent Michael Gifkins [1945]. He says the writers "virtually selected themselves. I took as my brief to choose writers at the peak of their careers, whose work was of international standing. I was also looking for representation across the genres, which in the end came quite naturally”. "My one regret about this project is that two of my early selections, the poets Allen Curnow and Hone Tuwhare, felt unable to participate”.
We are also exhibiting proof sheets which feature twelve negatives per sheet, constituting the photographer’s ‘sketch book’.
* Please check website INFORMATION page for occasional closed days due to public holidays & travel commitments
Outreach exhibition
ALAN BEKHUIS
Reflecting Mana: portraits of Tainui
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery / Te Pukenga Whakaata
Wellington
24 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
A magical moment occurs after you’ve picked up a daguerreotype and it's tilted just right in your hand: there is a sudden alchemy of light and perception, and the image resting on the silver plate is revealed. Both object and image, the cased daguerreotype is a whakahuia for an intimate conversation, a private revelation between the past and the viewer. Unlike a photographic print,the daguerreotypeis utterly unique, as it has no negative. The plate that the image is formed on is as fragile as ash and was present at the moment the light flooded the dark chamber of the camera, reacting to the highly polished silver made sensitive to light, forming a latent image: an instant and tangible connection to that time and place, be it last week or last century. Alan Bekhuis's images of contemporary Tainui tangata whenua embrace the present of these proud, beautiful people, yet by their ta moko, their eyes, their very mauri, they are irrevocably connected to the past, the embodiment of their rich and highly complex whakapapa. There is no need for costumes or faux historic affectations; these individuals are their own authenticity. They speak not only of their own stories, their own blood and bone, but those too of their ancestors.
Kelly Ana Morey
October 2011
The daguerreotype (named after the French inventor Louis Daguerre) is the first publicly announced process of photography (Jan 1839). It differs greatly from other forms of photography in that it is an emulsionless image on a metal sheet with a layer of pure silver. It is both positive and negative, but being on a non-transparent support cannot be reproduced via the conventional negative/positive process. It is this aspect that made the process pass into obsolescence in the nineteenth century, but is bringing it back to the art photography genre in the digital age. Each daguerreotype is unique, and fine examples possess a high intrinsic value.
The image is made by polishing the silvered metal plate until it has a mirror-like polish. It is exposed to halogen fumes (iodine and bromine), which form the light-sensitive silver salts directly on its surface. In camera at exposure, when a total of three photons of orthochromatic (blue) light have hit a silver salt molecule, the halogen is split from the silver salt, giving a latent image. The image is developed by exposing the plate to fumes of mercury, so that an amalgam of silver and mercury is formed where the silver and halogen have been split. The unexposed silver salts are removed by fixing the plate with sodium thiosulphate. Post-development the plate is heat treated with a solution of gold chloride, which strengthens the fragile image and warms the tone. The mirror-like surface requires viewing in a certain light, needing a dark reflection to see the image as a positive. Optimally this is a hand-held experience, tilting the object to the light to reveal its inherent magical qualities.
The image itself is very delicate, so the plate must be housed in a protective enclosure. Traditionally these are leather-covered wooden cases; as well as giving protection, they also provide an aesthetic presentation. The plate is kept apart from a protective cover glass by either a brass mat or by the cover glass being reverse painted. With the highly reflective surface, a burnished metal edge or the precise border of paint on glass most sympathetically frame the image for viewing as opposed to paper or card mattings. A high-quality enclosure makes for very intimate viewing and plays to senses other than sight, reinforcing the sensation that the daguerreotype is an image-object of reverence.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2002
Peter Black Moving Pictures
MARCH
Nicholas Twist and Burton Bros / Muir
& Moodie Photographs of Southern
New Zealand-two views *
* Landscape genre exhibitions
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
Including: Platinum prints & Cyanotypes
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
Collage-based photographs
JUNE
Peter Peryer www.peryer.co.nz
JULY
Ava Seymour New Work & Heartlands
Collage-based photographs
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
...toured to: Pataka [Porirua] & Auckland City Library, 2004
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
Photochemical drawings
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
Ambrotypes & Tintypes
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
* Portraiture genre exhibitions
JUNE
Victoria Webb Full-length and Front-on *
JULY
Ben
Cauchi last days
Ambrotypes & Tintypes
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
Re-viewing the proof sheets
SEPTEMBER
Anne Ferran [Australia] & Anne Noble
our fathers
OCTOBER
Richard Barraud Being for the Benefit of
Mr Kite: Photographs 1965 - 1975
Ann Shelton 26 photographs of a house Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, October - November
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
Architectural photography
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
James K. Lowe Ever, ever
JULY
Peter Evans Manipulated by the Human Hand *
KIN The New Zealand Portrait Gallery / Te Pukenga Whakaata, Wellington July – September *
Laurence Aberhart, Janet Bayly, Alan Bekhuis, Peter Black, Rhondda Bosworth, Fiona Clark, Richard Collins, Margaret Dawson, Bruce Foster, Joseph Griffen, Paul Johns, Nikolai Kokx, Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, Clive Stone, Olivia Taylor, John B. Turner & Ans Westra
AUGUST
Joyce
Campbell Te
Taniwha
Ambrotypes & Daguerreotypes
SEPTEMBER
David van Royen [Australia] Good Reason 2008 & Not Moving 2010 *
OCTOBER
Peter Peryer Other: portraits 1975 – 2004 * Exhibition pre-view Looking forward – Peter Peryer at McNamara Gallery
NOVEMBER
Anne Noble by light [photographs 1982 - 2008]
Derek Henderson & Peter Peryer Moaroom - Paris, November - December
Anne Noble by light Mahara Gallery [Waikanae] November - January
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2011
Ben
Cauchi
The Doppler Effect [portfolio]
Salt prints
FEBRUARY
Richard Orjis Fields
MARCH
Andrew Beck Forms
APRIL gallery closed
MAY
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
JUNE
Haru Sameshima Vexing Objects: still-life experiments [1986 - 2010]
JULY
Alan Bekhuis Reflecting Mana: portraits of Tainui Kuia *
Daguerreotypes
AUGUST
Greg Semu The Last Cannibal Supper
SEPTEMBER
Fiona Pardington
From the Field of Dreams: Phallus impudicus and Other Species
Stephen Roucher Stands Whangarei Art Museum September - November
OCTOBER
Wayne Barrar Torbay ti kouka
NOVEMBER
Laurence Aberhart
Alan Bekhuis Reflecting Mana: portraits of Tainui The New Zealand Portrait Gallery / Te Pukenga Whakaata, Wellington *
November 2011 – February 2012
Daguerreotypes
DECEMBER
- JANUARY 2012
James K. Lowe
American Night
25.1.12 We are ten
FEBRUARY
John Daley Thirteen: New Zealand Writers, 1992*
includes proof sheets
MARCH
Derek Henderson the trees are big and the sky is blue*
NOW AND THEN: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand photography Te Manawa Art, Palmerston North
March - June
Laurence Aberhart, Wayne Barrar, Janet Bayly, Andrew Beck, Peter Black, Gary Blackman, Joyce Campbell, Ben Cauchi,
Fiona Clark, Richard Collins, Derek Henderson, Paul Johns, James K. Lowe, Anne Noble, Max Oettli, Richard Orjis, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, Stephen Roucher, Greg Semu, Ann Shelton, Christine Webster, Ans Westra et al.
APRIL gallery closed
MAY
Peter Peryer & Fiona Pardington
Peter
Peryer Other: portraits 1975
– 2010 Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, May - June *
JUNE
Elaine Campaner [Australia]
JULY
Mark Adams
AUGUST
Ann Shelton
SEPTEMBER
Stephen Roucher Stands & Frank Breuer [Germany] Poles
Alan Bekhuis Reflecting Mana: portraits of Tainui Waikato Museum, September 2012 - February 2013 *
Daguerreotypes
OCTOBER
Fiona Amundsen The Golden Waterway
NOVEMBER
Ben Cauchi
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2013
FEBRUARY
Andrew Beck
MARCH
Peter Evans Zealandia
APRIL gallery closed
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
AUCKLAND
ART FAIR 2013
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2014
