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Artist: Gavin Hipkins (New Zealand)
Gavin Hipkins regards himself as a 'tourist with a camera'. For
Bright Paradise he will present 30 images from his 80
image series
The Homely. Gavin bills this series as a "post-colonial Gothic novel". Through a cinematic run of images, which are often slightly blurry, and filled with the soft colours of a dreamspace, Gavin re-presents monuments and memorials of Australian and New Zealand nationalism with fragmented glimpses of domestic interiors and museum dioramas. "Although New Zealand has an international reputation for being 'clean, green and beautiful' (a mythology that New Zealander's often call on to represent ourselves), it is the treatment and conquest of nature as an adventure playground that interests me with this project."
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The Homely:
Napier (Tree)
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