Gone Home

Gavin Hipkins and Peter Peryer

CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art
Christchurch

14 December 2019 - 16 February 2020

CoCA, in partnership with City Gallery Wellington, is delighted to present 'Gone Home', curated by Robert Leonard and Gavin Hipkins, showcasing photographs by Hipkins and Peter Peryer in a game of visual snap. The show takes its title from a Peryer photo of a gravestone inscribed 'Gone Home'. Peryer died in November 2018.

Peter Peryer, from the series Gone Home, 1975 — Peter Peryer, from the series *Gone Home,* 1975

Gavin Hipkins, Clandon (Hinemihi), 2015 — Gavin Hipkins, *Clandon (Hinemihi)*, 2015

The occasion for the two-hander is City Gallery Wellington's touring of Hipkins’s new body of work, The Homely II (2001–17). Hipkins shot the eighty images on sightseeing jaunts through New Zealand (his home) and the United Kingdom (the homeland). The Auckland photographer visited tourist spots and museums, as well as more humble and nondescript sites. In the UK, his itinerary took in iconic landscapes such as the Lake District and Scotland’s national parks and industrial-revolution locations like New Lanark and Ironbridge. In New Zealand, he frequented Rotorua, the Moeraki boulders, Milford Sound, and several early-settlers museums. The project alludes to colonialism and empire, the legacies of industrial expansion, landscape traditions, and ideas of domesticity and family.

At CoCA, The Homely II will be accompanied by a selection of around fifty photos by Peter Peryer, including such classics as Self Portrait (1977), My Parents (1979), Frozen Flame (1982), Bluff (1985), Dead Steer (1987), Trout, Lake Taupo (1987), and Home (1991).