Cryosphere
Cryosphere
Jonathan Kay
Jhana Millers Gallery
Level 1, Mibar Building
85 Victoria Street, Wellington
24 March – 23 April 2022
Artist talk: 2pm, Saturday 26 March
Drinks: 3 – 5pm, Saturday 26 March
Jonathan Kay, Ice Aperture #2, Glacial cave, Haupapa/Tasman Glacier, 2018
“Kay’s Cryosphere project is at least in part an attempt to bring a concern for climate change back to something more tangible, and to place it within a local context. Following in the footsteps of early European explorers in Aotearoa, Kay took to the mountains and glaciers himself seeking to document through photography his own journey within these landscapes. His images play with the conventions of landscape imagery; the tendency to aestheticise the landscape rendering it picturesque, romantic or sublime. In doing so, his works suggest a keen awareness of the power images have to both reflect and shape our understanding of the world. Where some examples of early photography in this region might have celebrated the awe-inspiring granduer of the environment alongside the achievements of the conquering explorer, Kay’s photographs offer something more nuanced and atuned to the plight of the glacier in this period of environmental crisis”.
Excerpt from catalogue essay by Dr Barbara Garrie, Senior Lecturer, Canterbury University
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