Centre for Contemporary Photography
‘P.North’ – Exhibition Opening
Exhibited for the first time in its entirety ‘P.North’ doesn’t refer to a place, but rather to a dreamlike and dislocated moment in time. McCool’s work shows shopkeepers, youths, churchgoers, young children and animals populating the nondescript landscapes of sleepy small towns amidst strangely loaded backdrops.
More a poetic essay than social documentary ‘P.North’ was produced in the context of the neo-liberal restructuring of the New Zealand economy, and its devastating impact on the rural and working classes. A young McCool, aware of a country and a way of life undergoing drastic change, was driven to create a segue, an imagined borderland made up of her rich, peculiar and subjective imaginings. At the same time this period was one of her own transition from childhood to adulthood, and a visual reckoning with her own small corner of the world, and what might lie beyond.
After making these images, McCool did not make photographs for many years. Included in this exhibition, alongside the full suite of ‘P.North, also features new work, as McCool has recently taken up her Rolleiflex camera and is once again photographing her community.
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Kathryn McCool is a New-Zealand-born photographer who has lived and worked in Australia since 1994.
Venue
Perry Street Building
Collingwood Yards
Collingwood, 3066
Accessibility
Floor access to the Perry Street Building can be made via the following paths. From 30A Perry Street, a footpath leads to the retail area of Perry St (UG) and courtyard. The Perry Street Lift can be accessed via 30A and 30B Perry Street, allowing access to levels 1 and 2 of Perry Street Building. From Johnston Street access to Perry St Building can be made by crossing the courtyard.
Accessible toilets are located in three areas within the Perry Street Building. On the Upper Ground Level (Level UG) the accessible toilets are located in the service corridor in the northern part of the Building. near the staircase. These toilets are open throughout event hours. On L1 and L2 the toilets are located in the northern part of the building, behind heavy manual blue double doors. All accessible toilets are equipped with manual locks, exit buttons and grab rails.
