On Campus Exhibition: Capacity

Andrew Beck, Richard Niania & Joyce Campbell, Julian Dashper, Richard Frater, Marie Shannon, Matt Tini

Selected works from Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection

Rutherford House
Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
33 Bunny St, Wellington

20 March – 20 July 2025

Presnted by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery as part of Focus on Photography

Open 7.30am - 3.30pm, Monday to Friday

Matt Tini (Waikato, Ngaati Tiipa, Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu), sitters I, 2022

Capacity brings together a selection of works from Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection which reflect on the possibilities of images to hold multiple temporalities. Marie Shannon’s Wrapped Photograph (Julian Dashper, Bedroom at Aachen, 1995) (2012) alongside Bedroom at Aachen (1995) by her late artist husband Julian Dashper dwells in a personal space, imbued with memory, emotion, and connection. The Roto (2010), part of Joyce Campbell and Richard Niania’s ‘Te Taniwha’ series, an ongoing collaborative process which reveals the importance of place in both holding, and releasing, memory and story. Richard Frater’s Not Titled (2017) and Andrew Beck’s Glass Strata (2015) upend present-day expectations of the reproduceable image, presenting unique prints grounded in old technologies. Matt Tini’s sitters I (2022), also a unique print, re-images colonial narrative dominance by foregrounding a queer Māori perspective referencing the political imbalances steeped in the photographic histories of Aotearoa.