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
  • ABOUT
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    • Contact: cathy.carter@xtra.co.nz
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Wai Wai Wai, 2019  Föenander Galleries 455 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland
Core Exhibition of The Auckland Photography Festival, Theme: Fissures, 2019
'Photography, among all the arts, is the first to use reality as an indispensable raw material. Yet it too is a fiction, generated by technical tools used to create and reproduce a perfect copy of what the eye sees: it inserts itself into the hidden most corners of the tangible, to make it so true, so real, that it seems unreal. Today, contemporary photography is a long way from being considered a mere representation of reality. It is an absolute protagonist because it breaks down reality: it reworks the past by imagining the future, and creates traces of an anti-reality, or rather a thousand other realities, simultaneously both true and false'. Info@gibellinaphotoroad.it

Wai Wai Wai is a collection of work that explores the concept of ‘Fissure’, the theme adopted for this year’s Auckland Photography Festival. Fissures appear in this work as a line between ocean and sand, the peak and trough of each swell or wave, a physical landscape and its reflected presence, or as fissures in time explored by the repetition of people and waves. ‘Fissure’ is also present in the representation of bodies of water going through historic changes and transformation as we enter the Anthropocene. They retain a sense of the sublime, particularly in human consciousness, but are no longer ‘natural’ in any historic sense, already altered if not beyond recognition, certainly beyond ecological balance by human activity on Earth. Carter draws on Barnett Newman’s post-WWII zip paintings, about which William M Boot wrote: “old standards of beauty were irrelevant: the sublime was all that was appropriate, an experience of enormity which might lift modern humanity out of its torpor.”

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Tamarama Bathers, 2019
​1400 x 850mm 
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Aurora Surfers, 2019
1400 x 400mm
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Rolling, Surfers, 2019
1390 x  640mm
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Motu-O-Kura, Eventide, 2019
​1340 x 650 
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Curl Curl Bathers 2019 
​1600 x 760mm

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Noontide Surfers, 2019
​1500 x 750mm
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