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Postcards From New Zealand - Bruce Foster

Auckland Festival of Photography is proud to present work by Bruce Foster. Bruce became obsessed with photography in 1972, after stepping into the Photographers’ Gallery and Bookshop in London. In 1980 He graduated with a Master’s degree from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, where he studied under John B. Turner and Tom Hutchins. He has exhibited widely and has work represented in a number of public collections including: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Bruce Foster’s landscape photographs in the 1980s were meditations on the dialogue between natural and modified environments. The coastline figured prominently in these works but subjects also included other water/land interfaces such as rivers, lakes and canals. These preoccupations continue to the present day. RECENT EXHIBITIONS In 2011 he was one of nine artists on the ‘Kermadec Project: Lines Across the Ocean’, an initiative to articulate the issues facing one of the few pristine ocean sites left on the planet. This work was shown in eleven public galleries in New Zealand. His works ‘Invasive species’ and ‘Mapping the Pacific’, both dealt with oceanic plastic pollution. His research sparked an interest in the ‘left-footed jandal phenomenon’, the washing ashore of predominantly left-footed jandals onto New Zealand’s beaches. This quasi-scientific project, resulted in ‘Drift’, an installation of 200 pink jandals in the form of an ocean wave, at the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Nouméa ‘Intertidal’ from 2014, explores environmental changes over a small stretch of North Auckland coastline, the Mangawhai Spit. A vast archaeological site, it is a stark picture of dramatic and irreversible environmental change. ‘Carbon Ghosts’ of 2016, explores traces of human occupation at the Spit over the last 800 years. In 2017 he was involved with The Water Project: thirteen artists exploring the cultural, conceptual, and imaginative qualities of rivers, lakes, wetlands and freshwater systems. This exhibition originated at the Ashburton Gallery, close to the epi-centre of Canterbury’s water woes precipitated by the rapid industrialisation of dairy farming in the region. This exhibition toured six public galleries. COMING UP Toitū Te Whenua – The Land Will Always Remain, a collaboration by five artists, each investigating forces that shape land and identity, opens at Aratoi in Masterton on September 4. The Lobster’s Tale is a collaboration with Chris Price, poet and essayist. It’s the third book in the kōrero series from Massey University Press. It will be Launched October 7. Thanks to Creative NZ Music by Willamette www.brucefoster.nz www.photographyfestival.org.nz