Stefan Roberts
Stefan Roberts has been exhibiting his photography for over 25 years in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. During this time, his work has received recognition in many of New Zealand’s significant art awards and is held in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has been teaching at Ara Institute of Canterbury for 20 years.
‘I have explored how the photographic frame, or the lack thereof, affects representation… The frame truncates the world, the viewer sees and interprets what they have been allowed to see. The image itself may have been curated from an unknown sequence of rejected images. By constructing my own camera, I have done away with the discrete frame. My images spill off the outer edges of the film as well as becoming serendipitously entangled with neighbouring perspectives. From a distance the strip appears as a continuous vista, but on close inspection, there is a journey, another subjective and mythical representation of place’
Exhibitions:
2024 – EXCURSION
2024 – COAST – group exhibition
2022 – WIDE – group exhibition
2022 – WATERLOG