Bodies of Work /

once more with feeling

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Wintering, after a Van der Velden study, Otira Gorge, (detail), 2008. Diptych, C-type photographs, Printed in two sizes, 720 × 900mm and 1214 × 1520mm each.

2008

“Shelton’s remake focuses the viewer on art as a cultural construct and points to the reliance of traditional painting on sight. The mirror image of her paired photograph of Otira Gorge is anti-spectacle; it challenges the primacy of vision by locating the meaning beneath the photograph’s surface in a process which figuratively situates the ‘spectator’ beyond what is immediately apparent. The viewer is directed away from the act of looking to a world hidden from the surveyor’s categorising gaze where thinking and remembering are privileged and the cohesive logic of the visual field is shattered. This aspect of Shelton’s practice is consistent with the questioning of the primacy of the visual in the later half of the twentieth century by French theorists such as Jacques Derrida who believed that photography should be understood as writing or ‘text’.”

Natalie Poland, once more with feeling, p.8, Hocken Collections, University of Otago, 2008.
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Wintering, after a Van der Velden study, Otira Gorge, 2008. Diptych, C-type photographs, Printed in two sizes, 720 × 900mm and 1214 × 1520mm each.
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Artist unknown rack 1, Hocken Collections, 2008. C-type photograph, 800 × 1000 mm.
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Artist unknown rack 2, Hocken Collections, 2010. C-type photograph, 800 × 1000 mm.
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Artist unknown rack 3, Hocken Collections, 2010. C-type photograph, 800 × 1000 mm.
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Artist unknown rack 4, Hocken Collections, 2010. C-type photograph, 800 × 1000 mm.
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Artist unknown rack 5, Hocken Collections, 2010. C-type photograph, 800 × 1000 mm.
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Artist unknown rack 6, Hocken Collections, 2010. C-type photograph, 800 × 1000 mm.
port-gore
Atlantis, Port Gore, Malborough Sound, New Zealand, 2008. Diptych, C-type photographs, Printed in two sizes, 720 × 900mm and 1214 × 1520mm each.
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Back of Painting (Lionel Terry, [Moonlit landscape] n.d.), Hocken Collections. C-type photograph, 370 × 515 mm.
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Back of Painting, (Lionel Terry, [Self portrait]), Hocken Collections. C-type photograph, 515 × 370 mm.
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Back of Painting, (Lionel Terry, [Waterfall], n.d.), Hocken Collections. C-type photograph, 370 × 515 mm.
seacliff
A view of Seacliff, after an O’Brien painting, Truby King Reserve, Seacliff, New Zealand, 2008. Diptych, C-type photographs, Printed in two sizes, 720 × 900mm and 1214 × 1520mm each.
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once more with feeling, installation view, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, 2009.
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once more with feeling, installation view, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, 2009.
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once more with feeling, installation view, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, 2009.
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once more with feeling, installation view, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, 2009.
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once more with feeling, installation view, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, 2009.
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