Current Season Current Exhibitions Current Events Video Lounge Future Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Touring Exhibitions News Catalogues Online Projects How to propose an exhibition Exhibitions for Hire 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 Circus of Angels 16 July - 14 August, 1999 Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm Gallery One Christine Webster Sumptuous, spectacular, strange ... Christine Webster's massive cibachrome images of dancer/performer Douglas Wright create a magical illusion of gravity confounded. Floating, suspended, levitating or teetering on a tightrope, Christine Webster presents the body on the edge - transcendent, powerful yet vulnerable. Christine Webster is one of New Zealand's leading photo-artists with an international reputation for her carnivalesque images of ambiguous ritual and psychological game playing. Less directly sexual than her previous work, 'Circus of Angels' inhabits the main gallery as a physical space in which Douglas Wright's sturdy body hovers, hangs and balances in a tantalising yet unsettling manner. Image Credits: •  Christine Webster, 1998 Default Blue Gallery Two Pat Brassington Delicate, dreamlike and disquieting- Pat Brassington's images simultaneously delight the eye and disturb the senses. Pursuing her long-term interest in montage and collage, this new work employs digital software in place of scissors and glue. These pictures exploit the legacy of surrealism, but to new ends. Whilst the surrealism, of the mid-twentieth century was essentially an evocation of the masculine dream world; Pat Brassington's work subtly subverts those traditions with a clearly feminine and feminist inflection which calms the image to a hushed but uncanny whisper in the ear of the subconscious. Image Credits: •  Pat Brassington, Small Thing, 1998 Terms and Conditions | © Copyright: Australian Centre for Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. Site by Suture Net | Hosting by Dreamhost