August 18 - September 16, 2023
along with 23 friends & colleagues invited by the artist to share the exhibition space...
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - back gallery
Peaks and Troughs offers an extravaganza of contemporary New Zealand photography. A beautiful new body of work by Conor Clarke is accompanied by the work of 23 others. These are friends and mentors invited and wrangled by Clarke, grateful for the company and inspiration offered her along the way. So, this is a rare opportunity to scope recent work by many of Aotearoa’s best photographers: Mark Adams, Edith Amituanai, Chris Corson-Scott, Solomon Mortimer and Zahra Killen-Chance, Haru Sameshima, Jae Hoon Lee, and Tim Veling amongst others. John Collie catches memories in the Christchurch red zone; Roberta Thornley captures in haunting detail eerie light down a fenceline; Greta Anderson’s painterly still-life geranium is far from what it seems; and Tia Ranginui’s spectral male and female figures look both ecstatic and supernatural.
There are many different approaches to photography on show here – and certainly something for everyone, from the delicate play of light, shadow and sinuous form (in the Mortimer + Killen-Chance work), to the panoramic detail of Corson-Scott, the intimate photograms of Adams + Wilkinson, and the humour of Sam Hartnett’s Pioneer Fly.
Then there is Conor Clarke’s work. Much has been written recently, from the terrific text by Lachlan Taylor in Art Collector magazine #105, to the excellent essays around this exhibition by Kirsty Dunn and Barbara Garrie in the handsome little catalogue designed by Sang Kyu Moon and Ken Santos. There are glimpses of the everyday presented along a shelf – 12 stations in all – whilst the other images are all landscape tropes, mountains in the main, but all are simulations of the real, fictions constructed at least one step away from reality. And they are glorious.
JS
Selected works - Conor Clarke
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Images and details of works by the 23 artists invited by Conor to contribute to this exhibition are shown in the Details of works section below. Those participating are:
Edith Amituanai
Greta Anderson
Joy Auckram
Caryline Boreham
Mary-Louise Browne
Conor Clarke
John Collie
Chris Corson-Scott
Andrea Gardner
Sam Hartnett
Craig Hilton
Joseph Jowitt
Jae Hoon Lee
John Miller
Solomon Mortimer + Zahra Killen-Chance
Louise Palmer
Tia Ranginui
Haruhiko Sameshima
Shigeru Takato
Roberta Thornley
Tim J. Veling
Areta Wilkinson + Mark Adams
2016
silver bromide photogram (moa egg shell + crop stones)
16” x 20”
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2017
silver bromide photogram (moa feather)
20”x 24”
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
1995
silver gelatin fibre based print, open edition
450 x 580mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
1995
silver gelatin fibre based print, open edition
450 x 580mm, print only
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2013
archival pigment print, ed 3/7
1100 x 1350mm, framed with solid ash, UV perspex
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2013
archival pigment print, ed 4/7
1400 x 1750mm, framed with solid ash, UV perspex
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2021
gelatine silver print, ed 2/5
8” x 10”, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2021
gelatine silver print, ed 2/5
8” x 10”, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2016
archival pigment print from composite digital negatives, ed 1/1
1000 x 8000mm, unframed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2016
archival pigment print from composite digital negatives, ed 1/1
1000 x 8000mm, unframed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, ed of 6
800 x 1200mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, ed of 6
800 x 1200mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2010
colour photograph
665 x 565mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2010
colour photograph
665 x 565mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2010
colour photograph
665 x 565mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
3D printed Polymer objects, concrete object, prints
dimensions variable
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
embossing on paper, ed of 5 + 2A/P
297 x 420mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2004
black & white diptych
395 x 835mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2021
single channel video, ed 2/3
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2013
archival pigment ink photograph mounted on aluminium, ed 4/5
780 x 520mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
archival pigment print from digitised tri-colour negative, ed 1/3
833mm x 1016mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2015
chromira on metallic paper, ed of 3
500 x 500mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
archival photo on Ilford Smooth Cotton Rag, 1/3 +2A/P
770mm x 480mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/1
450 x 300mm, print only
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2011
colour photograph, ed 2/5
600 x 730mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
colour photograph, ed 1/3
600 x 400mm, framed in pioneer red frame
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
graphite on paper
325 x 425mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
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2020
leadlight window
535 x 640 x 45mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
fibre-based B&W analogue print/photogram
490 x 385mm
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2016
pigment print, ed 2/3 + 2A/P
1155 x 930mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
800 x 647mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
800 x 644mm, framed with gridded glass
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 2/3 + 2A/P
800 x 606mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
800 x 650mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
800 x 650mm, framed
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 2/3 + 2A/P
560 x 470mm, framed without glass
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2018
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 2/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2018
pigment print, ed 2/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2022
pigment print, ed 2/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2020
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs
2023
pigment print, ed 1/3 + 2A/P
508 x 406mm, mounted onto Dibond
Exhibited in
Peaks and Troughs