Place Time Relations.
A group exhibition bringing together 14 artists exploring the theme Time, Place and Relations.
Toi o Wairaka Gallery, Unitec, Mt Albert, Auckland. October 2026
"The photographers featured in Place Time Relations also resist an easy and often cliched sense of the everyday. It is not that they conjure the exceptional, but they ask of us to think about the relational and they ask us to think of spaces. What makes a place to stay with us, so we can imagine it again.
This is one of the enduring outcomes of photography's engagement with place. The ability to harness an emotional charge that allows us to speculate what it is about a place that resonates beyond its location. We are given the opportunity to share the curiosity of the photographer." – David Cowlard
Shifting Morphologies
Audio Foundation, Auckland July 2025
Fluid Archipelago
Skar Image Lab, Kingsland, Auckland, 2024
Fluid Archipelago, a series of images from extensive road-trips throughout parts of Aotearoa during which I sought to engage with the fluidity of landscape: its movement from both recent (land instability, flooding) and historic (land-use conversion from settler colonialism). A key undercurrent was our collective complicity in climate change. Dr Robin Kearns, Professor of Geography at Auckland University has contributed an essay, An Invitation to be Moved, to accompany the work.
Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Awa
Pah Homestead, Auckland
This exhibition was part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2022.
Reviewed by Nina Seja, Art New Zealand, Issue 183
'Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Awa is one of Auckland’s longest urban streams, flowing from Hillsborough through Mt Roskill, Owairaka and Waterview to the Waitematā Harbour. The creek’s rich Māori and European heritage and abundance of native and exotic flora and fauna makes it an important natural asset. In this series, photographer Tony Nyberg documents the environmental and cultural changes of the creek and its surrounds throughout the seasons, over a three-year period. Tony’s attentiveness to this local ecology over several years highlights the richness of life around this urban waterway.'
