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McNamara Photography Gallery: Aspects of Internationalism

The topic of Internationalism with regards to  NZ photography, comes up for comment every so often.  Below are notes compiled by Paul McNamara (McNamara Gallery Photography, Whanganui), as part of his 2011 presention at Art Lounge, Auckland Art Gallery highlighting aspects of Internationalism – the off-shore exhibition and collection of NZ photography. Our thanks to Paul for allowing us to share this information.

 

The Exhibition & Collection of NZ Photography Nationally & Internationally

Auckland Festival of Photography
Art Lounge Sessions
Sunday 5 June 2011 • 1pm

NZ PHOTOGRAPHERS EXHIBITING INTERNATIONALLY
&
COLLECTIONS HOLDING THEIR WORK

 

Looking at the experiences of 19 artists, 8 of whom have off-shore dealer representation and 14 have work in off-shore public collections in: Australia, New Caledonia, Taiwan, Macau, USA, UK, Holland, France & Spain

The selection ‘mechanisms’ involved in these exhibitions are no doubt many and varied, but one anticipates the work is subjected to robust critical debate; that it participates in the international discourse.
It appears that artists who work in tertiary institutions [artist as academic/teacher] are particularly well placed to exhibit internationally as their institutions liaise with off-shore curators and galleries    [- including university galleries].

This factor may give some bias with regard to the type of work shown internationally [e.g. research –/project-based work]. As apposed to social documentary, street photography, architectural, staged etc.
However non-teaching artists Aberhart [1], Adams [5], Cauchi [1], Peryer [1] have also exhibited at university galleries.
I suspect most of these off-shore exhibitions are curated from outside NZ.

Australian photography Centres have exhibited: Aberhart, Adams, Crowley, Henderson, Noble [2], Robertson, Shelton and Tocher.

As you will appreciate from the detail below, off-shore galleries acquire NZ work.
However, one suspects the reverse applies infrequently, namely the acquisition of international work by NZ public collections, apart from the Chartwell Trust. [A private trust collecting a diverse range of contemporary New Zealand and Australian art – Tracey Moffatt, Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson]

Read more here: Paul McNamara LECTURE – Internationalism AFP 2011 (pdf)

 

 

McNamara Gallery Photography  opened 25th January 2002, and exhibits New Zealand, selected Pacific Rim & International, photographically-based art. They are dedicated to exhibiting and promoting lens-based media, and exploring the range of practice, both materially and conceptually.

Visit their Exhibitions page where all exhibitions, including  out-reach exhibitions [29 so far] in blue ink can be found.  Denoted in the listing [via*]  are various genres, and also aspects of materiality [photograph type].

McNAMARA GALLERY Photography Ltd
190 Wicksteed St. WHANGANUI 4500
NEW ZEALAND

Tuesday / Wednesday – Saturday 11 – 3 [often open to 6] or by appointment
* Please check website INFORMATION page for occasional closed days due to travel commitments
06 348 7320 / 027 249 8059 mcnamaraphotogal@xtra.co.nz
www.mcnamara.co.nz

 

Paper/Cupboard Gallery, Auckland: Geoffrey Heath

Performance Anxiety – a series of ten new works by photographer Geoffrey Heath, is currently on show at Paper/Cupboard Gallery, in Mt Albert. The gallery runs as a small exhibition space inside Cosset Cafe. The shared exhibition (with pottery by John Kelly) runs until 11 May 2014.
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Paper/cupboard - Geoffrey Heath

 

 

John B.Turner’s Photography blog: New Zealand’s profile at 2013 Pingyao International Photography Festival


Elaine Smith, volunteer Lisa Lee, foreign guests coordinator Amy Liu,and Julia Durkin at PIP Pingyao September 2013

Following on from the first Auckland Festival of Photography’s exhibition last year and my two-person show with Julian Ward, which followed PhotoForum’s six Auckland photographers show in 2011, the profile of New Zealand photographers is gradually being lifted in mainland China.

Credit goes to Julia Durkin for hosting PIP artistic director, Zhang Guotian during the Auckland Festival of Photography in June, as part of the effort to coordinate and exchange work from the growing number of photography festivals worldwide. Zhang said he enjoyed his visit and the welcome given him in recognition of Pingyao’s aims and achievements. He saw a wide range of New Zealand work at the Festival and visited local archives to study historical collections and curatorial practices.


Zhang Guotian, Artistic Director of PIP, 2013

Durkin’s right hand woman at the AFP, Elaine Smith, selected work by four Aucklanders to show at PIP this year: Chris Corson-Scott (5 images), Geoffrey Heath (5), Anita Jacobsen (4), and Vicky Thomas (5). It was a modest beginning for presenting the work of people who have earned this exposure, when compared to the more ambitious solo presentations of PIP old hands, like Don Penny (USA) and Bronek Kozka (Australia), just a dozen metres away. It is a pity that they were unable to attend in person to experience the cacophony if images of all subjects, sizes, and levels of competence that surrounded their work in the old cotton mill and most other spaces.


Geoffrey Heath’s work at PIP 2013

Vicky Thomas’s work at PIP 2013

For me, Heath, Jacobsen and Thomas’s work was very competent but they are still in the process of finding their full voice. Unlike them, Corson-Scott avoided the art schools, with their growing conservatism, and struck out on his own. Consequently, he seemed to pop out of nowhere with a mature vision, when I first saw his work in the show at Northart that he curated with Edward Hanfling for this year’s AFP, and their meticulous preparation for that show convinced PhotoForum and Rim Books to publish their  Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography. PhotoForum, Auckland, 2013).



Geoffrey Heath (left) and Chris Corson-Scott’s work at PIP Pingyao, 2013 . Photo courtesy Julia Durkin

Chris Corson-Scott’s work at PIP Pingyao. Photo courtesy Julia Durkin

Corson-Scott’s contemplative, intensely rendered images belie the fact that he is still at an early stage in his development. His thinking is remarkably advanced and more ambitious than most of his peers, partly, I think, because he shares with his late father, the painter Ian Scott, a high level of intellectual enquiry about the nature of form and content in relation to the vernacular. The lighting is always dicey at PIP but if anything, Corson-Scott’s prints could have been bigger to dominate the large panels they were on, as they did in Auckland. Read the full article HERE

John B. Turner, Beijing, China
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