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Imperial Leather

Margaret Dawson
Megan Campbell
John Baxter
Nicholas Netzler
Jarad Bryant
Paula Mason

Tuesday 08 March - 27 March

Imperial Leather brought together a range of work which takes as its subject, colonialism and its aesthetic heritage.
Auckland artist Jarad Bryant takes well known historical images and bends them. There’s a headless Captain Cook and the Pink and White Terraces made from paint cans dripping with white paint.
Using the graphic language of Maori carvings, Paekakariki artist John Baxter recreates scenes of the arrival of the first ships to Aotearoa New Zealand.
Christchurch artist Margaret Dawson’s photographs capture the scenes around the sickbeds of fictitious characters taken in the historic Dee Street Hospital building in Invercargill. The styling of the photographs is immediately recognisable as Victorian.
Wairarapa artist, Megan Campbell also plays with a colonial Victorian aesthetic in her paintings. Using the ideas of objects of the period she paints ‘factional’ scenes compiled in a ‘Victorian’ album.
Wellington artist Paula Mason recently visited Te Papa to research and draw historic objects. Her two drawings of top hats in plastic bags are as she found them at the museum. They capture a nostalgia for the period inherent in the preservation of historic objects.
Creating a “Colonial Calendar” with his series of black and white photographs (rephotographed historic images) from the colonial period in the Pacific, Auckland artist Nick Netzler, overlays dates of significance to colonization and comments on western/colonial contact.


Headless Captain Cook by Jarad Bryant

Untitled I & II by Paula Mason