Mary Macpherson - 'The Long View' - 3rd May-3rd June 2019

Mary Macpherson - 'Takarunga - Mt Victoria, Devonport', from 'The Long View'

UPDATE, September 2020:
There will be an exhibition of a selection of photographs from The Long View showing in rooms 3 and 4 of Photospace Gallery, running from 2nd to 13th October, 2020. Note: gallery hours are currently 10am-3pm Mon-Fri, 11am-2pm Saturdays.
After-hours viewing by appointment.

Note: this exhibition has been extended till Friday 7th June.
Closed Queen's Birthday, Monday 3rd June.

"Harking back to the 19th century when artists like Alfred Sharpe and John Kinder were making images of the city-in-progress that would become colonial Auckland, Mary Macpherson’s ‘long view’ of Tāmaki Makaurau is both a product of its times and an imaginative response to the subtropical metropolis.

"Her photo-sequence also asks questions of its subject: To what extent does the evolving urban environment reflect the needs, desires and dreams of its population? Do the communities that live and work within the metropolis determine its shape and direction, or is the city the orchestrator and shaper of the lives of its citizens?"

- Gregory O'Brien

Mary Macpherson's exhibition 'The Long View - Auckland photographs 2014-2017' is showing at Photospace Gallery from 3rd May to 3rd June, 2019. Mary has been exhibiting at Photospace Gallery since 2014 - artist info.

The Long View - reviews, interviews, video

• Interview with Lynn Freeman, Radio New Zealand, Standing Room Only 2018
• The Spinoff, 2018
• Review by Jodie Dalgleish in Landfallonline, October 2018
• Podcast interview with Andy Spain
• Video interview by the Wallace Arts Trust
• Article by Mary Jane Duffy, Art New Zealand, Spring 2018 (not online - copy to view in gallery)
  
• Interview about editing, DPhoto magazine, Sept. 2018
  

'The Long View' exhibition is part of the Photival festival of photography in Wellington, 4th-26th May 2019

Copies of the book 'The Long View' are available for $35.00

Link to Mary Macpherson interview on Vimeo