Second Nature series

Second Nature (Large book)

1990

Cibachrome photograph, 410 x 825 mm. In billboard form, printed vinyl, 3000 x 6000 mm.

From the series Second Nature. Alternative title Large Book (what you get is what you see).

Exhibited in billboard form at the Wellington Railway Station in Now See Hear! Art, Language and Translation, Wellington City Gallery, curators Ian Wedde and Gregory Burke, 1990.

The six works in the series Second Nature were also exhibited in photographic form in a solo show of the same name at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton in 1990, accompanied by a sculptural work Large Neurological Fictions.

Also in the solo exhibition Second Nature at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1992.

Shown in billboard form for The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, curator Anthony Bond, 1992/93.

Shown in billboard form for Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, and Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, curated by Gregory Burke and Peter Weiermair, 1995 and 1996 respectively. 

Second Nature (Small book)

1990

Cibachrome photograph. 300 x 260 mm.

Exhibited in Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, and Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, curators Gregory Burke and Peter Weiermair, 1995 and 1996 respectively.

The six works in the series Second Nature were also exhibited in photographic form in a solo show of the same name at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton in 1990, accompanied by a sculptural work Large Neurological Fictions.

Also in the solo exhibition Second Nature at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1992.

Private Collections and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

Second Nature (Names and Places)

1990

Cibachrome photograph. 465 x 590 mm.

The six works in the series Second Nature were also exhibited in photographic form in a solo show of the same name at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton in 1990, accompanied by a sculptural work Large Neurological Fictions.

Also exhibited in the group exhibition Signatures of Place: Paintings and Placenames, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, curator Francis Pound, 1991. The work appears in monochrome on the cover of the catalogue.

Also in the solo exhibition Second Nature at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1992.

© All images copyright Ruth Watson