Featuring work by Wayne Barrar, Mizuho Nishioka, Tane Moleta and Kerry Hines.
Forrester Gallery, Oamaru – 30 October 2021 to 7 February 2022.
Featuring work by Wayne Barrar, Mizuho Nishioka, Tane Moleta and Kerry Hines.
Forrester Gallery, Oamaru – 30 October 2021 to 7 February 2022.
The festival, titled In Kepler’s Gardens, features around 120 sites around the world. An Architecture of the Sea is part of Garden Aotearoa New Zealand.
An Architecture of the Sea is an exhibition in an immersive virtual environment. Curated by Tane Moleta, it features:
To view the exhibition after 13 September, go to the permanent archived link here. Note: runs best via Firefox.
Barrar’s earlier work emerged out of an interest in visualising and thinking about the human-modified landscape, referencing historical topographic photography and the influential American contemporary exhibition New Topographics. While his more recent projects have engaged with nature at other levels, including via issues such as biotechnology and within the realms of science, the topographic has been an ongoing interest in his work.
Paired Topographics runs at Page Galleries (42 Victoria Street, Wellington) from 13 February to 7 March 2020.
For more info, see pagegalleries.co.nz.
Edited by Mark Stocker, the book features around 270 artworks from Te Papa’s collection, with accompanying short essays by a range of writers. It’s available from bookshops, and from Te Papa’s online store.
Wayne will give an artist’s talk on The Glass Archive at 11am, Sunday 12 November, the Bird Hall, Canterbury Museum – further background available here.
Courtesy of SCAPE Public Art
A sample of works by eight of the photographers included in the exhibition can be viewed here.
Wayne Barrar, Strew from North German Coast (brackish), from an NBS slide c.1960 (Photographed in 2015)