Multimedia artist Serena Stevenson presents  Beyond Documentary (her Masters show) in its entirety at MIC Toi Rerehiko Gallery opening this Friday 9th July at 5pm. Exhibition runs until 21st August 2010.

Shed 11, Queens Wharf, Wellington

28 July - 12 September 2010                                                                                                                       Opening Wednesday 28th July 5.30pm -7.30pm

19 Artists, 61 works 1973-2009                                                                                                                       Laurence Aberhart, Janet Bayley, Alan Bekhuis, Peter Black, Rhondda Bosworth, Fiona Clark, Richard Collins, Margaret Dawson, Bruce Foster, Joseph Griffen, Paul Johns, Nikolai Kokx, Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, Clive Stone, Olivia Taylor, John B. Turner & Ans Westra.

Image: Paul Johns, Noela Lillian Johns, 1998. LED print

The connections between the family and photography have been evident since the invention of the medium.

A photograph has that sense of presence, that trace of the real, and photographs sometimes make appear what we never see in a real face, a genetic feature.

We all make portraits photographs of family members and this exhibition looks at work made by currently active ‘creative photographers’ who look to their first- & second- degree relatives. However, rather than being the mirrors of the soul of the subjects, these portraits may reflect more the personality of the photographer.

Link to further exhibition notes (scroll down page)

Kin:an exhibition developed by McNamara Gallery for The New Zealand Portrait Gallery/Te Pukenga Whakaata