WAYNE BARRAR by Milford Galleries

WAYNE BARRAR The Catchments

22 Aug - 16 Sept 2015 www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

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From the Banks of Waipahatu Toward Punehu Falls, the Catlins 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 516 x 572 x 35 mm, printed image: 275 x 400 mm

Falling Water at Waihopai River Dam Structure, Marlborough 2012 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 437 x 539 x 35 mm, printed image: 180 x 253 mm

Lake and Dam at Birchville, Upper Hutt 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 439 x 539 x 35 mm, printed image: 194 x 277 mm

Discharge from the Mangahao to Mangaore Stream, Shannon 2012 gold toned matt albumen photograph, frame: 631 x 445 x 35 mm, printed image: 400 x 295 mm

The Shine Falls from Boundary Stream, Hawkes Bay 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 635 x 445 x 35 mm, printed image: 399 x 273 mm

High Water, Edge of Lake Wairarapa 2015 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 516 x 573 x 35 mm, printed image: 250 x 378 mm

Edge of the Wairau River (south bank), Marlborough 2011 gold toned matt albumen photograph, frame: 427 x 529 x 29 mm, printed image: 183 x 244 mm

Felled Pine Near Lake Otamangakau 2013 platinum/palladium photograph, frame: 433 x 540 x 35 mm, printed image: 281 x 355 mm

Rangitaiki River Remnant Flow from Lake Aniwhenua 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 516 x 572 x 35 mm, printed image: 270 x 394 mm

Restoration at Para Wetland, Marlborough 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 438 x 540 x 35 mm, printed image: 241 x 305 mm

From the Banks of Waipahatu Toward Pouriwai Falls, The Catlins 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 516 x 574 x 35 mm, printed image: 269 x 392 mm

Elvy Stream Waterfall, Pelorus 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 517 x 574 x 35 mm, printed image: 275 x 400 mm

Falling water at Birchville Dam, Upper Hutt 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 430 x 530 x 33 mm, printed image: 185 x 270 mm

Waiatiu Falls, Whirinaki 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 438 x 540 x 35 mm, printed image: 200 x 277 mm

Mangatini Falls at Ngakawau Gorge 2013 gold toned matt albumen photograph, frame: 623 x 438 x 29 mm, printed image: 375 x 247 mm

Felled Pine from Top Valley Road, Wairau Catchment 2013 platinum/palladium photograph, frame: 540 x 437 x 35 mm, printed image: 285 x 344 mm

Shifting Waters on the Ohau Canal 2013 gold toned albumen photograph, frame: 516 x 572 x 35 mm, printed image: 278 x 401 mm

Wayne Barrar is an observer, a researcher, and a narrator. His photographs have a depth and warmth. At the same time they speak volumes, and convey the photographer's deeply felt interest in - and concern at - the way humans have affected and interacted with the landscape. These interests have led Barrar through an impressive array of portfolios, ranging from studies of the salt production at Lake Grassmere to An Expanding Subterra, his major exploration of underground industrial communities. Barrar's research interests have led him to experiment with the processes used in the original photographic surveys of New Zealand, most importantly the albumen print process developed by Blanquart-Evrard in the 1850s. This process, a painstaking method involving coating paper in an egg and salt wash and then floating on silver nitrate, produces images with a rich brown cast and yellow and cream highlights. (1) The current exhibition focuses on this process, one which has been largely unused in New Zealand for over a century. With The Catchments, Barrar returns to his long-term interest in historical New Zealand landscape representation which, combined with the methods and warm tones of the works, gives the images a strongly nostalgic feel. Rather than focus directly on human impact on the land, here the natural world and the artificial reflect each other, most poignantly in images of bushland waterfalls and similar cascades flowing over weirs and dams. The long time-exposures render these cataracts as silk curtains draped over a dark land which becomes alternately primordial and controlled. We may have "learned to perceive the picturesque and scenic as a particularly authentic representation of the land", (2) but here we are challenged to look again at the environment and human impact upon it, seeing both the natural and manipulated beauty of the scenes. 1. Misa Jeffereis, Albumen Print, Henry Collection, <http://dig.henryart.org/photography-and-video/www/innovation/albumen-print/#0> 2. Di Halstead, "Shifting Nature" review, Junctures Magazine, No 2, 2004, <http://www.junctures.org/index.php/junctures/article/view/154/157>

EXHIBITION PRICELIST 1

From the Banks of Waipahatu Toward Punehu Falls, the Catlins 2013

3,650

Falling Water at Waihopai River Dam Structure, Marlborough 2012

3,150

Lake and Dam at Birchville, Upper Hutt 2013

3,150

Discharge from the Mangahao to Mangaore Stream, Shannon 2012

3,650

The Shine Falls from Boundary Stream, Hawkes Bay 2013

3,650

High Water, Edge of Lake Wairarapa 2015

3,650

Edge of the Wairau River (south bank), Marlborough 2011

3,150

Felled Pine Near Lake Otamangakau 2013

2,650

Rangitaiki River Remnant Flow from Lake Aniwhenua 2013

3,650

Restoration at Para Wetland, Marlborough 2013

3,150

From the Banks of Waipahatu Toward Pouriwai Falls, The Catlins 2013

3,650

Elvy Stream Waterfall, Pelorus 2013

3,650

Falling water at Birchville Dam, Upper Hutt 2013

3,150

Waiatiu Falls, Whirinaki 2013

3,150

Mangatini Falls at Ngakawau Gorge 2013

3,650

Felled Pine from Top Valley Road, Wairau Catchment 2013

2,650

Shifting Waters on the Ohau Canal 2013

3,650

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

WAYNE BARRAR b. 1957, lives Wellington

Wayne Barrar: High Water, Edge of Lake Wairarapa 2015

"Most of my work is centered on the impact on land of the consequences of shifting cultural practices. Occasionally I will venture into the laboratory, as a place of change, in order to investigate human intervention at a ‘micro’ level. At other times I may revisit historical imagery or sites as a reference point…. In order to deal with the complexities and ironies inherent in the relationship between people and the environment, my work has evolved into a number of series – some finite, others ongoing. They may vary in approach and process, but in all of them the central consideration is this inter-relationship between culture and nature in an increasingly complex society."(1) Wayne Barrar’s territorial explorations into New Zealand’s landscape, which has in recent times extended into Southern Iceland and the Great Salt Basin, Utah, convey human adaptation of the landscape with a surprising approach. Barrar’s photographs powerfully argue the connection between nature and culture and the ongoing relationship between them. "The country in his pictures has been entirely cleared of human beings, but humans are without doubt the reason that the country appears as it does. These are places we have ‘settled’, but in Barrar’s images they are capable of unsettling us."(2) "Though the views are not what many of us would consider picturesque, Barrar manages to instill an order and calm to the scene, imparting them an uneasy beauty. He comfortably moves from grand expanse to the intimacy of a petri dish…. Barrar’s work is beautifully considered, his method is classical and technically superb." (3) “Barrar has focused his coolly dispassionate lens on our artificial lake in Marlborough, wilding pines in the Mackenzie Basin and environmental degradation on the Island of Nauru, among other “New Topographies”. (4) Born in Christchurch in 1957, Wayne Barrar gained a Bachelor of Science from The University of Canterbury in 1979, a Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1996, and a Masters in Design from Massey University in 2005. He currently works as the Associate Professor and Director of Photography, School of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington. He has been awarded a number of international and national art residencies and grants. Barrar’s first survey book “Shifting Nature” was published in 2001 by University of Otago Press. In 2010 a major publication by Dunedin Public Art Gallery, “Wayne Barrar, An Expanding Subterra” accompanied his significant touring exhibition of the same name. His works have been exhibited in public galleries around New Zealand including the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, the City Gallery, Wellington and the Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui. He has exhibited internationally around the USA, as well as in Hong Kong. Barrar’s works are held in public galleries, private and corporate collections in New Zealand and abroad. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Artist Statement, 2003. Geoff Park, essay in ‘Shifting Nature: Photographs by Wayne Barrar’, University of Otago Press, 2001. Ian Robertson, ‘Changing the Focus’, Evening Post, 19 December 2001. David Eggleton, ‘Notes from the Underground’, The Listener, 2010.

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WAYNE BARRAR b. 1957, lives Wellington EDUCATION 2005 1996 1979

Master of Design, Massey University Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland Bachelor of Science, University of Canterbury

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015

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The Catchments, milford galleries queenstown Underground: Subterranean Economies and Ecologies, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA Gone to Ground, Humanities Center Gallery, California State University, Chico, USA Bio Borders, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures, Porirua, Wellington Torbay ti kouka, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra, City Gallery, Wellington An Expanding Subterra, American University Museum/Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, USA Contact Topographies, Milford Galleries Dunedin An Expanding Subterra, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin The Machine Room, Milford Galleries Auckland, Auckland Inner Space, Milford Galleries Auckland, Auckland Sightlines South, Milford Galleries Dunedin, Dunedin Selections from the Home Range, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui Accumulating Histories, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui CLUI at Wendover, USA (2005) Parts Unknown, Milford Galleries Auckland, Auckland Straumur McNamara Gallery, Wanganui Wayne Barrar: Landscapes of Change, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA An Immortal Double, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton An Immortal Double, Sarjeant Gallery, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt An Immortal Double, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, Images from Shifting Nature, The Bath House Art and History Museum, Rotorua Shifting Nature, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Shifting Nature, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Western US Landscapes, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Mason Bay: A Natural Succession, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Saltworks: The Processed Landscape, Sarjeant Gallery; Waikato Museum of Art and History; Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North; Marlborough Arts Centre, Blenheim; Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland (1994) New Landscape Cibachrome Photographs, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Landscape of Change, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013

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Flora Photographica Aotearoa, Bowen House, Parliament, Wellington The Earl Street Journal, milford galleries queenstown Seasoned: Contemporary Salt Prints, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui Freedom Farmers, Auckland Art Gallery Present History: A Selection of Photographs of New Zealand 1960s to the Present, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Kainga, Whenua, Moana â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Home, Land and Sea in Nga Toi Arts Te Papa, Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Available Light, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui Down and Dirty: Mining Photographs, 1850-present, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Now and Then: Enduring and Developing Themes in Contemporary New Zealand Photography, Te Manawa Gallery, Palmerston North Running on Pebbles, Snake Pit Gallery, Auckland Chemical Traces, Scott Building, University of Plymouth, UK

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Placemakers, The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington Scheimpflug Principle, projectspace B431, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland Sightseeing, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui Sightseeing, St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland Community Garden, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington A serious kind of beauty: the heroic landscape, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui Recent: Work by Ten NZ Photographers, Tauranga Art Gallery Light: Black and Silver, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae Earth: Prix Pictet (exhibition video presentation), Passage de Retz, Paris (plus other international venues) AC/DC: The Art of Power, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland Picturing Eden, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA Picturing Eden, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Land Wars, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland Close-up, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland Picturing Eden, Munson-Williams-Procter Arts Institute, Utica, NY, USA Picturing Eden, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA Toi Te Papa: Art of the Nation (2008 curation), Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Picturing Eden, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA New Zealand Legacy: Aotearoa Taonga-tuku-iho (Min. of Culture and Heritage), The Art House, Singapore Manapouri: Art, Power, Protest, National Library Gallery, Wellington Collection in Focus, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui The Long View, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui Southern View: He tirohanga mai te Tonga Photographs of New Zealandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture, heritage and landscape, NZ Embassy, Hong Kong Picturing Eden, International Museum of Photography and Film/ George Eastman House, Rochester, USA Perpetual Verdure, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland The Altered Landscape, National Academy of Sciences Gallery and the Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington DC, USA Pacific Light, Pataka Museum, Porirua Solstice, Matakana Pictures, Matakana Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington Toi Te Papa: Art of the Nation, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington The Altered Landscape, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada The Altered Landscape, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada Is As, Landscape as Metaphor, Milford Galleries Dunedin The Altered Landscape, Yellowstone Art Museum, Montana, USA Set Up, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery Wellington The Caravan, Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua The Altered Landscape, Norsk Museum for Fotografi, Norway Victory over Death, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington Chosen, Milford Galleries Auckland, Auckland The Caravan, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui Old Gates New Journeys, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery Wellington Just Black and White, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Landmarks, TeWa/ The Space, Wanganui The Altered Landscape, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona USA; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Not by Subject, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno USA Sustainability: The Land Remains, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Sum of its Parts, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Automotive: Questioning the Car, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt Waikato Te Awa: The People and the River, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton

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Ink and Silver (works from publication), Escalante Gallery, Auckland Currency, Contemporary Photographic Art, Auckland Institute and Museum River Images Revisited, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Natures Limits, New Work Studio, Wellington Big Green, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt Pacific Traces, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Contemporary Update, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Exit, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland Twenty Photographers, Newton Gallery, Auckland Photoforum 90, NZ Centre of Photography, Wellington, Blue Angel Gallery, Auckland United Photographic Award Exhibition, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Now See Hear!, Wellington City Art Gallery History and its Theatre, Wanganui Regional Museum Readings from a Certain Landscape, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Acquisitions Review, Auckland City Art Gallery New Works for the Collection, Manawatu Art Gallery Two Photographers, McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch Regional Photographers, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Acquisitions, Waikato Museum of Art and History Five Cameras, Wellington City Art Gallery Saltworks: The Processed Landscape, Sarjeant Gallery; Waikato Museum of Art and History; Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North; Marlborough Arts Centre, Blenheim; Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland (1994) New Landscape Cibachrome Photographs, 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington Landscape of Change, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; 33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington

AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES 2011

Research Fellowships: School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth (UK) MAPDA - Museums Australia book award, (winner, major exhibition catalogue category) for An Expanding Subterra 2009 Nominated for Prix Pictet (and included in associated publication), UK 2005, 07, 09,11 Massey University Research Grants (MURF) 2007 COCA Mid Career Researcher Award 2004 Light Work Residency, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Syracuse (NY), USA 2002 Project Grant (New Work, Visual Arts) Creative New Zealand, Arts Council of New Zealand 2001 CLUI Artist Residency to USA 2000 Straumur International Artist Residency to Iceland 1995 STA Study Award for full time postgraduate study in photography 1994 Documentary Commissioning Grant Waikato Museum of Art and History 1990 Direct Assistance Grant QE 11 Arts Council of New Zealand

COLLECTIONS Auckland Art Gallery George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, USA Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt Light Work, Syracuse USA Te Manawa/ Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Collection, Wellington Ministry for Culture and Heritage Collection, Wellington Nevada Museum of Art, Reno USA Riddet Collection, Massey University, Palmerston North Christchurch Art Gallery Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill State Services Commission Library Collection, Wellington University of Auckland Collection Real Art Charitable Trust Collection

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Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton Wellington City Council Art Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Work also held in private and corporate collections in New Zealand and overseas.

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Pike, David, The Bunkerization of Albania (with images by Wayne Barrar), Cabinet, No. 50 Bolland, Mark, Cultural Cross-Pollination: Wayne Barrar’s Torbay ti kouka,” Art New Zealand 142 Patrick, Martin, Imagined Landscapes and Subterranean Simulacra, Afterimage 39 (6) Preston and Wayne Barrar, Julieanna, Subterra: Interior Economies of Underground Space, IDEA Journal 2011 (published 2012) Now and Then: Enduring and Developing Themes in Contemporary New Zealand Photography. Exhibition catalogue. Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North An Expanding Subterra, Wayne Barrar (monograph book), with essays by David L Pike and Kreisler, A. Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2010 Scott , Hanna & Ann Shelton (eds). Sightseeing, Rim Books Camera Austria 107 (journal portfolio), Graz, Austria Earth: Prix Pictet (book), teNeues, London 2009 Campbell, Fiona (ed).Real Art Roadshow: The Book, Craig Potton Publishing 2009 Bugden , Emma (ed) Land Wars: The Reader, Te Tuhi/ PROGRAM, Berlin Close-up (exhibition catalogue) Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland Pike, David L, Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001, Cornell University Press Eggleton, David, Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography, Craig Potton Publishing Reviewing Subterra, (conference paper) Southerly, Vol .65 Number 3. Sydney Klochko, Deborah, Picturing Eden, Steidl/ GEH, Gottingen/ New York Park, Geoff, Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua, Victoria University Press Strongman, Lara (ed) Contemporary New Zealand Photographers Mountain View Press Hipkins, Gavin, Dugout: Wayne Barrar’s Subterra, Art New Zealand, 116 Bayly, Janet Contact Sheet 132, (Portfolio with essay) Light Work, Syracuse. NY Coolidge , Matthew Accumulating Histories, (exhibition catalogue), Sarjeant Gallery Terrain, Landfall, 204, University of Otago Press Straumur (poems by Kerry Hines) McNamara Gallery The Caravan (exhibition catalogue), McNamara Gallery in association with Pataka Park, Geoff, Shifting Nature: Photographs by Wayne Barrar, University of Otago Press Thompson, Paul, New Zealand, A Century of Images, Te Papa Press Brown, Warwick, Another 100 New Zealand Artists, Godwit Barrar, Wayne, An Immortal Double (exhibition catalogue), Sarjeant Gallery Waikato Te Awa, The People and the River, (catalogue from the commissioned photographic documentary project), Waikato Museum of Art and History Ink and Silver Photoforum (limited edition book) Turner, Jon B & Main W, History of New Zealand Photography from the 1840’s to the present, Photoforum Barrar, W and Ministry for the Environment Shifting Nature (exhibition catalogue) Exit (exhibition catalogue) Artspace, Auckland Paul, Joana, Landscape as Text: the Literacy of Wayne Barrar, Now See Hear!, Victoria University Press and Wellington City Gallery Schulz, Derek, A Delusive Light through a Bouncing Wall: Issues of Landscape and Powerlessness in the Photography of Wayne Barrar, Art New Zealand, No. 53 United Photographic Award (exhibition catalogue) Paul, Joanna, Saltworks: The Processed Landscape (exhibition catalogue), Sarjeant Gallery Pardington, Neil, Landscape of Change, (exhibition catalogue) Sarjeant Gallery

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