Sites and Settings

Sites and Settings

Kate Woods

Northart
Norman King Square, Ernie Mays St, Northcote, Auckland

1 - 27 June 2021

Opening 4pm Sunday 30 May

Artist Talk: Sunday 20 June, 1 pm

Artist Workshop: Saturday 12 June 

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography

Kate Woods, Energy Tree, Waitītiko Creek, 2021. Courtesy Bartley & Company Art.

Woods creates imaginary landscapes or alternate worlds through constructed photography and video works. In past work she investigated the documentary photography of 60s and 70s Land Art in the way some of the images tend to give the sense of a non-space, or at least a space that can never be physically accessed, as it may not exist anymore. 

Woods uses appropriated ubiquitous imagery as backgrounds for her constructed photography. For this new series, inspired by her connection to the bushwalk near her home, she has included firsthand photographic components of Waitītiko / Meola Creek. She pieces together found materials and her own photography with digital additions and painted cardboard assemblages in order to “highlight and re-contextualise particular events and key moments from cultural and art historical discourse”.