The 2019 Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission

The Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission 2019

Yvonne Shaw - Auxilary Movement

Silo 6
Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland

30 May - 16 June 2019

Opening Thursday 30 May 6:00pm

Saturday, 1 June, 11:00 - 11:45am: Curator Jessica Lim & Yvonne Shaw in conversation, Silo 6.

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

Read the PhotoForum interview with Yvonne Shaw

The Auckland Festival of Photography 2019 features the 9th Annual Commission. Each year, an Auckland-based artist is commissioned to create a new body of work for exhibition during the Festival. This year's commissioned artist is Yvonne Shaw.

Yvonne Shaw uses photographic portraiture to explore interpersonal relations and a multiplicity of roles. She is interested in patterns of attraction and rejection within social groups. Her unscripted process of working with the protagonists in her photographs allows for both spontaneity and enactment. The resulting images hover between psychological theatre and the authentic tension of human encounter.

Yvonne completed a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Hons) at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2017.

Installation photos by PhotoForum: