Dec
12
to 16 Mar
Background Matters: Portraiture and Place in Aotearoa New Zealand
A picture is a whole world unto itself.
Step beyond the frame and see what you find. Background Matters asks what can be revealed when we view the sitter of a portrait in the expanded field of their surroundings. In bringing the background to the fore, this exhibition subverts the hierarchy of subject and setting to consider the portraiture of Aotearoa New Zealand from a fresh vantage point.
Nicolette Page, Carmen, Oil on board, 2012