The Terrible Boredom of Paradise

The Terrible Boredom of Paradise

Derek Henderson

SPA_CE
Napier

Online exhibition

8 Jun 2020 — 27 Jun 2020

“These photographs were my first real attempt at doing a series of images which I could make into a book. I wanted to recreate the feeling I had as a child in the back seat of my parents car, driving somewhere we had not been to before on our summer holidays”.

Derek Henderson, Palmerston Street, Westport, West Coast. 6.25pm 2nd February 2004
Giclee print on cotton rag paper, 1000mm x 800mm & 720mm x 560mm, Edition of 15

“The side window of the back seat of the car was a kind of frame I saw everything through. That side window was replaced by my 4x5 field camera I had bought in London where I was living in 2003. The result was a journey around New Zealand in the Summer of 20003/04. I traveled 13,000km over 4 and half months”.

“These are a selection of the images I collected”.

Derek Henderson, 2020.

Works from this series sit in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and the Christchurch Art Gallery.