Laurence Aberhart Grave 3, Andersons Bay, Dunedin, December 1980. 1980. Medium gold toned photographic print. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1981 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
World's Edge
6 October 2006 - 25 February 2007
In World's Edge, New Zealand artists set their sights on one of the most familiar and elusive landscape images – the horizon. In Colin McCahon's five-part evocation of the Ahipara coast, an earthbound beachwalk becomes a spiritual journey. Ralph Hotere's painted window from 1982 portrays the horizon as the backdrop for urgent environmental protest. In Anne Noble's 'whiteout' photographs made in Antarctica, the horizon is a place where whiteout threatens and vision is pushed to its limits. The exhibition includes work by Laurence Aberhart, Maddie Leach, Kathryn Madill, Maria Olsen, Peter Peryer and Marie Shannon.