Cathy Carter New Zealand Photographer and Multimedia Artist
  • Art Awards
    • Art Awards: Wallace Art Awards Finalist 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
    • Headon International Portrait Competition Finalist 2015, 2016, 2018
    • Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards Finalist 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Series of Photographic Works
    • Weird Fishes, 2018
    • Waimarama, Reflecting on Water 2018
    • Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, Motu-O-Kura, 2018
    • Poolside, Immersion and Emergence Malolo , 2017
    • Poolside Immersion and Emergence 2017
    • Portals of Bare Attention 2016 / 2017
    • 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
    • Weird Fishes, 2018 Allpress Studio
    • Photoforum Exhibition 2018
    • Waitemata, Auckland Art Gallery
    • Poolside Immersion and Emergence Arthaus Gallery2017
    • 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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    • Curiculum Vitae (expanded)
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    • Contact: cathy.carter@xtra.co.nz
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Waitemata 'Obsidian Waters' Public Project   2013 

Waitemata ‘Obsidian Waters’ is a photographic project interested in how we experience this stretch of water and the nature of our relationship to this water that surrounds Auckland City.  The project aims to bring a contemplative awareness to this body of water that stretches from Riverhead in the north-west, to Tāmaki River in the east.  Members of the public participating in this project will have an opportunity to reflect upon their relationship with this water during the time spent in planning and photographing and thinking about our proximity to, and associations with, this water. 

In keeping with the intentions of The Lab, the photographs will be printed inside The Lab and installed within this context of other works in progress. The final install will offer an immersive experience of this elemental space through the scale and repetition of this representation of site.

History of the naming of the Waitemata:
Wai-te-matā means ‘obsidian waters’ – the glassy surface resembled volcanic obsidian rock. In Te Arawa tradition, the harbour was named by the ancestor Tamatekapua, when he placed a volcanic stone as a mauri (talisman) in its waters near Birkenhead. The Ngāpuhi people called it Te Wai-o-te-mate (the waters of death) – a reference to battles to control the Tāmaki isthmus. (Margaret McClure. 'Auckland places - Waitematā Harbour', Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 2012, p. 9).


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