Falling Shadows

Airini Beautrais, Christine McFetridge and Virginia Woods-Jack

Photospace Gallery
37 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington

06 March - 25 April, 2020

Postponed due to COVID 19 response, all NZ art galleries closed.

Associated publication available from Bad News Books

Falling Shadows brings together photography and poetry that responds to a collective interest in belonging, familial identity and memory. And in recording those closest to them, the artists explore how personal narratives can overlap.

McFetridge’s photographs aim to rediscover her late-grandfather, Colin Coutts, through his garden and by borrowing from a series of images taken by him. Woods-Jack considers the complexities of growing up through the perspectives of her children with pictures from Even while you watch I am fleeting and a selection from her archive of work made as a teenager.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark, writes Rebecca Solnit, That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Everything is temporary here; and, though still, these quiet works are symbols of passing time.

A limited-edition photobook published by Bad News Books will be available, featuring poetry by Airini Beautrais.