Don't act all scared like before (Kate)
Don't act all scared like before (Kate)
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Artist
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Production Date
2009
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Medium
colour photograph
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Size
331 x 431 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the artist and Sue Crockford Gallery, 2009
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Accession Number
C2009/1/38/4
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Accession Date
14 Dec 2009
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Department
New Zealand Art
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Classification
Photograph
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Collection
Chartwell
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Chartwell Notes
For those more familiar with Kate Newby’s recent installations in clay and glass, these early photographic works may come as a surprise. Yet they reveal a consistent principle that has long animated her exhibition-making: a close attention to the quotidian details of specific places, which guides her work to remain, in her words, “in conversation with the environment in which it exists.”
The two Don’t act all scared like before photographs were first exhibited in Newby’s 2009 exhibition Get off my garden at Sue Crockford Gallery. The exhibition also included the Chartwell Collection works I’m so ready—a yellow wool carpet stained with red wine—and You make loving fun—a floor-to-ceiling wall one brick wide. Newby has described Get off my garden as an attempt to make work that “redirect[s] the body through that gallery space” and “shift[s] people around a room in a very assertive way but without being bossy.”
