2025 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture with Anne Noble
Soundings Theatre – Te Papa Tongarewa
55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Thursday 7 August 2025
6:30pm – 9pm
Organised by Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts
Anne Noble is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts (Photography) at Massey University. She has received many awards including the 31st Higashikawa Photography Award, an Arts Foundation Laureate Award and US National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Award. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is held in collections throughout the world.
In this lecture, Anne Noble will discuss modes of collaborative practice across projects, including her work with bees and work capturing the environmental degradation of our waterways.
In 2023, Anne Noble was commissioned by Ngāi Tahu to create an archive of images that would reveal the deteriorating state of freshwater across South Island waterways and the resulting impact on mahinga kai customs and practices.
These photographs supported the Ngāi Tahu Statement of Claim heard recently in the High Court in Ōtautahi Christchurch, seeking recognition of Rangatiratanga (authority) over wai māori (fresh water) within Ngāi Tahu takiwā.
An collaborative exhibition drawing on the archive is currently showing in Ōtepoti at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
This year's lecture is one of a number of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Photography programme at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University.
Entry is free, however bookings are advised. Doors open at 6.15pm, lecture at 6.30pm. Lecture will finish at 8pm, please join us for refreshments afterwards.
About the Peter Turner Memorial Lecture
Since 2008, the College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwhārangi brings an internationally significant photographic historian, theorist or artist to Wellington to deliver the annual Peter Turner Memorial Lecture.
The lecture has been established in the memory of the late Peter Turner – photographic historian, curator, author, editor, publisher and teacher.