Cathy Carter New Zealand Photographer and Multimedia Artist
  • Art Awards (dropdown)
    • Wallace Art Awards 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
    • Devonian Reefs, Molly Morpeth 3D Award, 2020
    • Parkins Prize 2019
    • Headon International Portrait Competition Finalist 2015, 2016, 2018
    • Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards Finalist 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Series of Works
    • Almost Paradise, 2021
    • Wai Wai Wai 2019
    • Weird Fishes, 2018
    • Poolside, Immersion and Emergence Malolo , 2017
    • Poolside Immersion and Emergence 2017
    • Waimarama, Residency: Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, 2018
    • Portals of Bare Attention 2016 / 2017
    • Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, Motu-O-Kura, 2018
    • Seaside Series 2016
    • Between Worlds
    • Oceanids: Rising
    • Oceanids # 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Drifting #1, 2, 3
    • Immersive Emergence
    • We Float
    • Viridescent -becoming green
    • Waitemata, 'Obsidian Waters' ( A public project)
    • Ophelia # 1, 2
    • Imminence
    • Immersion and Emergence
    • Adrift
    • Subtle Space
    • Mist
    • Zone of Immanence
    • Fluid Fields
    • Convergence
    • Sea Lion Rotation (light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio ( Light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio
  • Photos of Exhibited Work
    • Wai Wai Wai exhibition Nkb Gallery
    • Weird Fishes, 2018 Allpress Studio
    • Photoforum Exhibition 2018
    • Waitemata, Auckland Art Gallery
    • Arthaus Gallery 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography 2017, Theme: Identity. 2017 'Open Waters', (curated by Cathy Carter)
    • State of Play 2016
    • Oceanids , Paris Apartment.
    • Oceanids Rising 2016 Moaroom, Paris.
    • We Float 2014
    • Immersive Emergence 2013 (installation)
    • Imminence 2013
    • Zone Of Immanence 2012
    • Convergence 2012
    • Transitions 2012
    • Land vs Sea 2011 (Immersion and Emergence)
    • Mist 2010
    • Waterways 2012
    • Between Worlds
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Infra_Moana #2, 2019
Finalist Parkins Drawing Prize,  2019
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Infra_Moana #2, explores the sea, our familiar playground, as a ‘future sea’ further into the Anthropocene. It plays on the concept of infrared photography which captures levels of heat. Infra-Moana provides an imaginary opportunity to see the warming of the seas using yellow as a symbol of warmth. The work also references the increasing occurrence of algae blooms as the seas warm up. This turns the water red, green or yellow. Some algal blooms are the result of an excess of nutrients (particularly phosphorus and nitrogen) which cause an increase in the growth of algae and green plants. As this organic matter dies it becomes food for bacteria that decompose it. With more food available, the bacteria increase in number and use up the dissolved oxygen in the water killing many fish and aquatic insects. This results in a dead area in seas or lakes. This work was in part inspired by a report from Qingdao, China, in 2013, about a massive algae bloom attracting beach goers. People flocked to the beach to play in the water transformed by the algae bloom. News reports included photographs of people swimming and playing on 'floaties' within this thick green algae which covered a record breaking 28,900 sq km. In this work, like apocryphal ‘frogs in a bathtub’, humans go about their leisure, or current behaviour, seemingly unaware of their authorship of future reality, including significant impacts upon our environment.
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