Anne Noble: The Colour of Gold
03 Nov 2009
- 28 Nov 2009
Bartley + Company Art is proud to present an exhibition of works by one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed and respected photographers, Anne Noble, on display from 3 - 28 November 2009.
Anne Noble has been described as “one of New Zealand photography’s most subtle and poetic of practitioners” and her work as strangely arresting and almost always profoundly moving”.
This is an exhibition about photography and about Antarctica – about surface and depth, beauty and toxicity, about what is shown or not shown. The title plays off the connotations of gold – its beauty and its power, seduction and lure.
Anne Noble has been researching and photographing Antarctica since 2001. It is project that has taken her to Antarctic centres all over the world in an investigation of how our knowledge of Antarctica is shaped through imagination and representation. In 2008 she won a prestigious US National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Award to travel and work in Antarctica to complete this project. There were 97 applicants for six awards and she was the only recipient from outside the US. The images in this exhibition come from that trip.
These photographs challenge the traditional depiction of the Antarctic landscape as heroic, picturesque or sublime. With wit and warmth, they show the human presence in a continent that has never been a place of permanent human habitation. With quiet understatement, they point to the complexities in debates around the potential exploitation of the region’s resources.
Anne is a Professor of Fine Arts (Photography) at Massey University Wellington and was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to photography in 2003.
Meet the artist at the opening preview Tuesday 3 November from 5.30 -7.30pm.
Image: Anne Noble, Spoolhenge South Pole Antarctica
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