Victoria St West, Auckland (from 'The Long View')
I'm a Wellington-based New Zealand photographer, poet and art writer with a long career of exhibiting and publishing photographs.
My work has covered projects that explore ideas about how culture and society are constructed. My last book,The Long View, looks to get inside the feeling of Auckland's CBD, one of the sources of New Zealand's wealth and power, as it reinvents itself for the 21st Century.
Bent, a project begun in 2011, reflects on the way we use trees in New Zealand - from the swathes of native forest cleared for agriculture by settlers or today's farming of Radiata Pine.
Old New World, (Lopdell House Gallery, 2012), looks at changes in New Zealand society as seen in small towns throughout the country. The work was also a nationally toured show and excerpts were published in Tahake magazine (no 77) and Booknotes (no 176). Old New World includes an interview with Gregory O'Brien about the ideas behind the work.
Series such as 17 Days of Shopping and Plant Life have been published in Sport and Landfall magazines, respectively.
Constructed images
In earlier series such Fabrication, White Thread, Partial View and At Sea I worked with staged images to dramatize ideas. Sarjeant Gallery curator Greg Donson has written an essay about this strand of my work. My most recent work, Medical Daydreams, which features my iPhone photographs, returns to the lyrical, poetic side of my work.
My exhibitions span dealer and public galleries throughout New Zealand and my work is held in collections such as: Te Papa Tongarewa, the Sarjeant Art Gallery, BNZ Collection, MFAT, Wellington Museums Trust, James Wallace Arts Trust, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dowse Art Museum, the Waikato Museum.
Represented by Photospace Gallery, j.gilberd@xtra.co.nz
Follow me on Instagram @macpherson.mary
Blog at marymacphoto.wordpress.com
Off the Tracks podcast interview with me about my poetry and photography
Biographical notes
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I am also a poet with an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University and my poetry can be found in journals and sites such as Sport, Landfall, the SpinOff, Hue and Cry, Poetry New Zealand, among others. There's more about my poetry on my blog.
Poetry book published
In October 2019 the Cuba Press published my first solo poetry collection, Social Media. The photograph is by noted New Zealand photographer, Peter Black.
My work has covered projects that explore ideas about how culture and society are constructed. My last book,The Long View, looks to get inside the feeling of Auckland's CBD, one of the sources of New Zealand's wealth and power, as it reinvents itself for the 21st Century.
Bent, a project begun in 2011, reflects on the way we use trees in New Zealand - from the swathes of native forest cleared for agriculture by settlers or today's farming of Radiata Pine.
Old New World, (Lopdell House Gallery, 2012), looks at changes in New Zealand society as seen in small towns throughout the country. The work was also a nationally toured show and excerpts were published in Tahake magazine (no 77) and Booknotes (no 176). Old New World includes an interview with Gregory O'Brien about the ideas behind the work.
Series such as 17 Days of Shopping and Plant Life have been published in Sport and Landfall magazines, respectively.
Constructed images
In earlier series such Fabrication, White Thread, Partial View and At Sea I worked with staged images to dramatize ideas. Sarjeant Gallery curator Greg Donson has written an essay about this strand of my work. My most recent work, Medical Daydreams, which features my iPhone photographs, returns to the lyrical, poetic side of my work.
My exhibitions span dealer and public galleries throughout New Zealand and my work is held in collections such as: Te Papa Tongarewa, the Sarjeant Art Gallery, BNZ Collection, MFAT, Wellington Museums Trust, James Wallace Arts Trust, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dowse Art Museum, the Waikato Museum.
Represented by Photospace Gallery, j.gilberd@xtra.co.nz
Follow me on Instagram @macpherson.mary
Blog at marymacphoto.wordpress.com
Off the Tracks podcast interview with me about my poetry and photography
Biographical notes
*
I am also a poet with an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University and my poetry can be found in journals and sites such as Sport, Landfall, the SpinOff, Hue and Cry, Poetry New Zealand, among others. There's more about my poetry on my blog.
Poetry book published
In October 2019 the Cuba Press published my first solo poetry collection, Social Media. The photograph is by noted New Zealand photographer, Peter Black.
