Photospace Gallery - New Exhibitions

Photospace Gallery - New Exhibitions

TONY WHINCUP – Land Marks

TIM STEPHENSON – Who are You?

7th August—28th August 2010

Opening: Friday 6th August, 5.00-7.00PM

Tony Whincup – Land Marks

The ten large-format colour photographs in Land Marks explore a range of marks

created in the landscape of the Australian desert; roads, fences, considered and

random constructions - each are open to interpretation individually and in

relationship to one another.

Each image reflects different methods of construction; the existing rock named Uluru and the centuries of spiritual attribution which contribute to its significance today; the contemporary construction of a small pyramid surrounded by a circle of stones; a recently-placed marker-stone, heavily graffitied (and reminiscent of ancient marker stones in Europe). In the subtle, natural repetition of the desert, each human mark, however minor, is significant.

Tony Whincup is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Visual & Material Culture at Massey University, Wellington. He is an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Professional Photographic Association and an international award winning photographer. He has published a number of books and his photographs appear in numerous magazines, journals and websites. Tony has also exhibited his work at Pataka Museum in New Zealand.

Tony has over 25 years of experience photographing in Kiribati. His projects have included traditional canoes, dance and his current work documents the traditional meeting-house. His publications include: Nareau’s Nation, A Portrait of the Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, and Akekeia! Traditional Dance in Kiribati, which won the NZ Montana Book Award in 2002. Tony’s most recent book, ‘Bwai ni Kiribati’, Artefacts of Experience, was published in 2009. In 2008 Tony was awarded the Kiribati Order of Merit (ODM) for his services to the country.

Tim Stephenson - Who are you?

In these works, images made of the human hand, I am exploring the nature of identity: who you really are and what adequately describes you.

Are you a tax number? ... A passport? ... Are you what you do? ... Who you live with? ... Are you a physical body? ... Just matter and energy? ... Or are you the sum of your past? .. Your emotions?  As we strip away these layers we reveal the core of our being: who we really are.

Tim Stephenson, b.1963, Wellington, graduated from Wellington School of Design in industrial design in 1984. He worked as a freelance designer for almost all of his career. His work ranged widely, including television and film production design and art direction, shop fitting, museum design, graphics and design for promotions and events. Lately Architectural design has been his main work. Most of that work has involved creating a vision within a frame, be it a viewfinder, window or stage.

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