Victoria Ginn
'A selection of vintage prints'
25th July to 21st August 2014

This is the first showing of Victoria Ginn's photography for some years. Her work is in the collections of the Auckland City Gallery, Te Papa Tongarewa, and various overseas public and private collections.

The photographs on show are a mixture of large and small vintage Cibachrome and silver-gelatine prints selected from her exhibitions 'Figure in the New Zealand Landscape' and 'Spirited Earth'.

For more information, see www.victoriaginn.com

Victoria Ginn, 'Dust to Dust' (dancer Paul Jenden)

Victoria Ginn - biography

Victoria Ginn was born of the artist/actress Ellinor Ginn in the house of her grandmother, the renowned opera singer and teacher Anna Ginn, on the 14 October 1952, in Wellington New Zealand.

From the beginning of her photographic work, at the age of 15 years, this self-taught photographic artist has focused on Individuality as the purveyor of the inner ‘invisible’ – the Self, as symbol and archetype.

Utilising natural or found light, her creative focus, initially seen via the black-white portrait, evolved to encompass the intertwined contexts of landscape and culture.

In her photographic essays, done through the  mid-1960s to mid-1990s, she explores the South Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Central Asia, and Southern Europe, in search of and to document art-performance-religious expressions of these regions.

Victoria Ginn’s work has been published world-wide. Her major photographic essay, 'The Spirited Earth – Dance, Myth and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific', was published by leading fine-art publisher Rizzoli International, New York.

Cover of 'The Spirited Earth' by Victoria Ginn, Pub. Rizzoli, NY, 1990

P129 of 'The Spirited Earth' by Victoria Ginn, Pub. Rizzoli NY, 1990