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TIM J. VELING – Pūharakekenui, Styx – 30 July-17 Aug 2024

Detail of 'Pūharakekenui Styx River, Brooklands Red Zone, 2022', by Tim J. Veling

Creating what he describes as topographic photo-maps that act as intimate studies of light, weather and water, Tim J. Veling has produced a broad art-documentary record of Ōtautahi’s Pūharakekenui Styx River catchment. This work marks Veling’s first experiments utilising the tri-colour separation process. The resulting prints are ghostly impressions of delineated light. They carry an extended sense of duration and an ineffable sense of place.

ARTIST TALK: Friday 16 August, 12pm

Pūharakekenui Styx River, Brooklands Red Zone, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, Archival pigment print from digitised tri-colour negative, 1 of 3, 845 x 1045mm   Pūharakekenui Styx River (Dry Swale) Harewood, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, Archival pigment print from digitised tri-colour negative, 1 of 3, 845 x 1045mm

Pūharakekenui Styx River, Redwood Springs, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, Diptych, Archival pigment print from digitised tri-colour negative, 1 of 3, 845 x 2090mm overall Pūharakekenui Styx River, Brooklands Red Zone, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, Triptych, Archival pigment print from digitised tri-colour negative, 1 of 3, 715 x 1740mm overall Pūharakekenui Styx River, Styx Mill Conservation Reserve, Northwood, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, diptych, Archival pigment print from digitised tri-colour negative, 1 of 3, 580 x 1430mm overall

 

Pūharakekenui Styx River (Dry Swale) Harewood 2, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, silver gelatine contact prints, handprinted from 8x10” negatives, 1 of 3, 225 x 1380mm framed total row width Pūharakekenui Styx River, Redwood Springs 3, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, silver gelatine contact prints, handprinted from 8x10” negatives, 1 of 3, 225 x 1380mm framed total row width Pūharakekenui Styx River, Redwood Springs 2, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, silver gelatine contact prints, handprinted from 8x10” negatives, 1 of 3, 225 x 1380mm framed total row width Pūharakekenui Styx River, Brooklands Red Zone 2, 2022, by Tim J. Veling, silver gelatine contact prints, handprinted from 8x10” negatives, 1 of 3, 225 x 1380mm framed total row width Pūharakekenui Styx River, Kainga Road Reserve (flood gates), 2022, by Tim J. Veling, silver gelatine contact prints, handprinted from 8x10” negatives, 1 of 3, 225 x 1380mm framed total row width

Tim J. Veling, born in 1980, lives and works in Christchurch. He is currently a lecturer in photography at the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts. Veling has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is held in private and public collections throughout New Zealand, including in the University of Canterbury and Christchurch Art Gallery collections.

The cornerstones of Veling’s practice are the psychological landscape and social-political environment. His work straddles the genres of fine art and documentary photography.