TRUTH + FICTION

May 20 — June 20, 2015

    In conjunction with the Auckland Festival of Photography, Trish Clark Gallery presents Truth + Fiction Salon, mediating upon the theme of the festival. Accompanying a solo exhibition by Jae Hoon Lee, the salon features photographic works by Roger Ballen, Stella Brennan, Chris Corson-Scott, Jennifer French, Michael Ghent, Alan Miller, Marie Shannon, Ann Shelton, Vincent Ward and Christine Webster.

    Maquettes and dolls confound a grasp upon scale in the works of Brennan, Shannon, and Ghent, while Miller’s delicate silver gelatin prints convert expansive landscapes into moody, miniaturised tableaus. The struggling figures of Ward’s Cloaked (2011) and Webster’s The Skeleton (1997) flip and distort as they are captured in motion, while those in Corson-Scott’s and French’s works appear as temporary flickers within unperturbed landscapes. Ann Shelton’s June 2004, Onaero Beach, Taranaki, looking north-east before dawn (2004/2012) appears as a misty morning, but is instead a four hour exposure tracking the path of Venus in a strike of white across the grain of the image. Likewise, Shannon’s Map of the Places (1992), tracks flight plans not across a map as it may first appear, but rather, a carefully engineered grubby patch of carpet. Channeling the viewer down unstable corridors of thought, this salon explores the affective potential of photography as a medium.

    • CHRIS CORSON-SCOTT / NZ
      Wildflowers in a Development near Tauranga, 2015
      Archival pigment print
      1400 x 1700 mm
      Edition 1/7
    • JENNIFER FRENCH / NZ
      ‘ “In order to build a solid aspiration for liberation from the cycle of existence, we must thoroughly examine our condition" - The Dalai Lama, 1994.’ (Detail 3) 1996/2014
      Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Paper
      760 x 1060 mm
      Edition 1/2
    • ANN SHELTON / NZ
      June 2004, Onaero Beach, Taranaki, looking north-east before dawn 2004 / 2012
      Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper

      1010 x 1245 mm (framed dimensions)

      Edition 2/7
    • MICHAEL GHENT / NZ / France
      Untitled (Dolls Series, Marseille, December 2009, 1-3 of 12) 2009
      Unique C-type prints
      520 x 415 mm framed each
      Unique set of 12
    • ROGER BALLEN / USA / South Africa
      Bite 2007
      Silver gelatin print
      800 x 800 mm
      Edition 6 of 10
    • MARIE SHANNON / NZ
      Map of the Places, 1992
      Silver gelatin prints, sepia toned
      Edition 4/12
    • MARIE SHANNON / NZ
      The House at Night, 1991
      Silver gelatin print, sepia, selenium and gold toned
      400 x 500mm
      Edition 10/15 (exhibition print on display)
    • ALAN MILLER / NZ
      Craters of the Moon Taupo 1997
      Silver gelatin print
      580 x 470 mm framed
      Edition 2 of 5
      Price: $1,750 framed
    • ALAN MILLER / NZ
      Ohinemutu, Rotorua 2012
      Silver gelatin print
      580 x 470 mm framed
      Edition 2 of 5
    • CHRISTINE WEBSTER / NZ / UK
      The Skeleton, 1997
      Colour digital print
      1180 x 1500 mm
    • JENNIFER FRENCH / NZ
      Decommission: Mackelvie Gallery, East wall, Edmiston Wing, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 3/10/08 11:33:02 2008/2014
      Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper
      650 x 1000 mm
      Edition 2/2
    • STELLA BRENNAN / NZ
      Little Boy, 2007
      Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper
      930 x 660 mm
      Edition 1/3
    • STELLA BRENNAN / NZ
      Fat Man, 2007
      Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper
      930 x 660 mm
      Edition 1/3
    • VINCENT WARD / NZ
      Cloaked, 2011
      Archival pigment print
      1700 x 1160 mm