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26th Nov - 15th Dec 09
'Guest Appearances' [2007 -2009]
Ink jet prints
Karen Crisp completed a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2008, having maintained a
decade-long interest in the idea of landscape as an
historical, conceptual, cultural and physical construct.
She utilises photography to consider the residues of history
contained in landscapes, and to portray sites as primarily marked by absence. Her images provide a scene for the examination of the landscape, and offer an interrogation of the mediated relationships that form through the
physical, historical, personal and associative meanings they conjure in the viewer.
Key themes include landscape as a history of ecological disruption, and the portrayal of the loss of biological
complexity and of habitats. The landscapes portrayed will be familiar and may appear banal to many New
Zealanders, but these are sites that have been destroyed by clearance, settlement and intensive agricultural
practices.
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po box 15148, tauranga
new zealand
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