Dance, Dance is a site-specific project created by award-winning photographer Kate van der Drift during her time on the Auckland Council residency 2024 in the Waitawa Regional Park. The project explores the entangled social and ecological histories of Waitawa; the works engaging with the layered history of colonisation, industry, and environmental restoration. Using cameraless photographic techniques, van der Drift creates alchemical lumen exposures with large format silver gelatine film, plants, herbicide, and sunlight–considering what it means to “take care” of the land and waterscapes. The resulting images map marks of human intervention alongside the agency of plants; capturing ongoing processes of transformation, resilience, and hope.
Dance, Dance
In-Venue
Sanderson Contemporary • 27 May - 22 June
Opens
5:30-7pm Wed 28 May
Hours
10am-6pm Mon to Fri and 10am-4pm Sat & Sun
Where
Osborne Lane, 2-4 Kent St, Newmarket
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Artists
Kate van der Drift
Theme
Pinus Contorta (Wilding Pine)
Ulex Europaeus (Gorse)
Nassella Tenuissima (Fine Stemmed Needlegrass)
