10 February -  
16 February 2025

A Lonely Place Facing The Sun

Amber-Jayne Bain
Photographic/still image artwork by Amber Jayne-Bain. Delicate tracery of long grass and seedheads is double exposed with a scene of a woman at a clothes line hung with tea towels. Her clothes are late 19th century. She stands with her back to us, holding a basket on her hip and gazing at a kereru in flight.
Photographic/still image artwork by Amber Jayne-Bain. Rippling water fills the image. Dark rocky blue and opaque, the surface gives few clues as to the scale or type of body of water it shows.
Opening
Opening Hours
Wednesday - Friday: 12pm-8pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am-5pm

A Lonely Place Facing The Sun presents moving image installation works by Amber-Jayne Bain, as the realisation of a two year Master of Fine Arts degree at Massey University.

‘Family folklore can warp and change with the telling’ - Marie-Jean Mills

This exhibition is an exploration of memory, isolation, domestic repetition and the juxtaposition of moving and still photographic imagery. Immersive and visual, it brings past and present together, and offers a response to the plurality of memory enacted through stories inherited from my mother, Marie-Jean, about her childhood on Waitai, Rangitoto ki te Tonga, D’Urville Island. The work draws upon an abundant trove of colonial settler female experiences recorded by my matriarchal line, and incorporates my own memories of a similar family place, Waitui, in the outermost tip of the Marborough Sounds.

 

EVENT

Artist talk
Saturday 15 February, 1pm

 

CONTACT

Website: ajbain.com
Email: aj@ajbain.com
Instagram: @amber_jayne_bain

 

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