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Jon Carapiet - Photos from the Stomp project - April-May 2018

26/3/2018

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Note: exhibition opening and closing dates will be announced. Currently the building is undergoing earthquake strengthening work, as well as some alterations to the gallery space, and we don't know exactly when the main room will be usable for exhibitions. Hopefully soon. Watch this space.

Stomp comprises images made in Europe, India and Egypt since 2014 and began as a personal response to the destruction in Bamiyan and Timbuktu, Palmyra and Aleppo. Such recent manifestations of fascism have 20th Century antecedents in the Holocaust and Armenian genocide, but trace even further back in human consciousness. There is a long history of attempting to erase people from memory.

Stomp seeks to reach beyond a sense of despair and engage our shared humanity. It calls on powers of empathy
and universal understanding that survive any detachment from individual identity. Viewed through this lens the violence of human action becomes merely an acceleration of the disappearance wrought by time itself. As such the images are all the same: portraits of everyman and everywoman from every time and every place; pictures of us.

Jon Carapiet, from 'Stomp', photospace gallery, exhibition of contemporary photography, Wellington new Zealand
Jon Carapiet, from 'Stomp'
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Fergus Collinson, 1948-2018

19/1/2018

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photo by Fergus Collinson, Wilson st Newtown Wellington, Photospace Gallery
Photo: Fergus Collinson

We met Fergus through Photospace Gallery, and last week we were shocked to learn that he had died. We found out from Facebook, as you do these days. No one is certain, but it's probable he had a stroke or heart attack, dying peacefully in his sleep. He was 69.

Fergus was a regular visitor to Photospace Gallery, even before he had an exhibition here ('Romance on the Menu', Jan-Feb 2001). Often he would respond to an exhibition with a poem. Choosing a pen from his shirt pocket pen-holder, he would write a poem on the back of a gallery catalogue sheet or on paper he carried for the purpose. The last time we both saw Fergus was at an exhibition by Glen Burrell at Potocki Paterson Gallery, late 2017, where he once again gave us a poem. A highlight was when Denise and I went to Fergus's house for the first time to purchase one of his paintings, which we still have.

Fergus was warm, inclusive, thoughtful, accepting of everyone, and never seemed to have a bad word to say about anyone. Wellington will be a lesser city without his unique presence.

Searching an old gallery hard drive, I came upon a folder of a couple-hundred photos that Fergus had taken on his first digital camera. They are mostly interior details, and should be familiar to anyone who has visited his Wilson St  cottage. Here is a selection of Fergus photos..

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Andrew Ross - 'Portrait of a House' exhibition. 2nd Dec. 2017 - 27th January 2018, Photospace Gallery, contemporary new Zealand photography, Wellington.

23/11/2017

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With a nod to the late Robin Morrison's first book, 'Images of a House', Wellington large-format photographer Andrew Ross explores the ambience and history of an older, private house in Masterton, a place with personal connections for him.

Ross's black and white photographs have been widely collected by institutions and private art collectors, and he has exhibited at least annually at Photospace Gallery since early 1999, where a large collection of his work is held.
See Andrew Ross - Artist information.


Holiday hours
Photospace Gallery will be closed for a number of days between 23rd December 2017 and 14 January, 2018.
  • 23rd-26th December - I'm really not available
  • 30th December - 1st January, likewise
  • 13th January, I'm busy with something else
Other days, the gallery can be open for viewing by appointment. I'll be in for a couple of hours at a time several times a week.
Best course: email me at j.gilberd@xtra.co.nz

Earthquake strengthening work on the facade of this building
This was supposed to be happening around now-ish but now looks like starting sometime in January - maybe. Who knows? Not me.
Anyway, when it happens, Room 1 of the gallery may be inaccessible for a few weeks. This could potentially affect the Andrew Ross exhibition, but probably not the Su Hendeles exhibition, which is in Room 3 at the back of the building.
My advice: come and see the Andrew Ross exhibition between 2nd December and 22nd December - this year. We may have to re-hang the exhibition in a smaller space next year. I don't know at this stage, but that's one option if Room 1 is closed during part of January. Keep an eye on the gallery website and Facebook page for updates.

'Parental bedroom, 19-4-2012' from 'Portrait of a House'. 8
'Parental bedroom, 19-4-2012' from 'Portrait of a House'. 8"x10" silver-gelatin photograph by Andrew Ross.

Artist statement for this exhibition - below

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