Join us to celebrate the opening of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi’s exhibition Site Seeing at The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna
Mātauranga o Aotearoa. Hear artists Conor Clarke and Bridget Reweti discuss with curator Dr Kirsty Baker how their work encourages us to reconsider the ways we see and imagine our relationship to the land.
Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu)
Conor Clarke graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2005 and is currently a Master's candidate and Lecturer in Photography at Ilam School of Fine Arts, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury. Her work uses photography to explore the living world, ecology, whenua, and concepts of nature. Images consider what should or shouldn't be looked at, represented, or shared, as well as that which is unseen, imperceptible, overlooked, or unknowable.
She has recently exhibited at Sydney Contemporary 2023, Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2023, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2020 – 2021), Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui (2018), Giftraum, Berlin (2014).
Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi)
Bridget Reweti is a Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi artist and curator. Her lens-based practice shines light on Māori histories embedded in landscapes through names, narratives and lived experiences. Bridget has held multiple residencies nationally and internationally including Canada, Indonesia and Singapore. She was the 2020/21 Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago which culminated in an exhibition and artist book Pōkai Whenua, Pōkai Moana. Bridget is a member of Mataaho Collective, co-founder and current editor of ATE: Journal of Māori Art and co-curated the survey exhibitions Māori Moving Image and Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills, publishing respective books by the same name. In 2023 she received the Leadership Visual Arts Tauranga Moana at Ngā Tohu Toi Award. Bridget holds a Master of Māori Visual Arts with first class honours from Massey University and a PgDip in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.
This event is part of Focus on Photography. Visit focusonphotography.nz for more information.
