Local Knowledge

Local Knowledge explores connections between geography and time. UK artistSimon Faithfull’s film 0°00 Navigation charts an epic journey to walk the Greenwich Meantime line across the UK, literally walking through time. Defying standard regulations of timekeeping, Whanganui artist Julian Priest creates a new time zone especially for the Hutt City that changes in response to local activity.

Wellington photographer Andrew Ross depicts his subjects within their own houses or workplaces, against the accumulation of objects that comprise a life fully lived. Lower Hutt local and renowned photographer Ans Westra’s classic images of street life capture residents in the everyday actions of shopping, strolling or just hanging out in the city.

Auckland artist Dan Arps, winner of the 2010 Walters Award, has created a new installation in and around a caravan in the gallery, A Scale Model of Christchurch. The work conjures up histories eradicated from his childhood town and hints at the city’s architectural response to the disaster through temporary construction; camping and containers. Another Aucklander, Joe Sheehan, is well known for his pounamu jewellery but Songs Remain The Same II is a greenstone cassette tape that plays a soundtrack of the river from where its material was sourced.