Breckon and Shaun Waugh: Two Photographers
Two photographers' takes on the real estate game.
Overview
Photography exploring ideas around place, shelter and protection, through physical or digital manipulation will be on show at the suitably named Two Photographers exhibition at Wellington’s non-commercial artist-run Enjoy Gallery. Two Photographers will present a selection of photographs from Breckon and Shaun Waugh.
Western Australia-based New Zealand artist Kate Breckon’s ‘Real State’ series features images cut from real estate advertisements, selected for their likeness to old and semi run-down properties she lived in while flatting. Prompted by the physical scars of these rental properties, Breckon further scars the images – cutting and tearing them to consider the provenance of each house and expose the wear and tear of sheltering emotional people.
Shaun Waugh is a Wellington artist whose practice draws on photography’s artistic and technical histories, exploring a balance between ‘pictorial’ and ‘conceptual’ strategies. Waugh’s ‘Covenant cut-outs’ foreground the act of selection, using digital manipulation to mask areas of the photograph beneath a single colour. The series also references the protection of natural and cultural features on privately owned land through the legal mechanism of an open space covenant – a landscape project initiated in 1977 by the QE2 National Trust.
An artist talk with Breckon and Shaun Waugh will be held on Friday, September 5 at 5.30pm.
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