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What's On in the Arts in Central Otago - April
'Family History' from the 'Still Series' by Annemarie Hope-Cross. We love to hear news of the significant successes of our Central Otago artists on a national and international level and are excited to report that Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand have purchased an edition of Annemarie Hope-Cross's Still Series, part of her larger body of work entitled The Heidelberg Project. These nine images were the first works Annemarie made in response to her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. We asked Annemarie to tell us more about these images, the inspiration and the processes which led to the creation of her collection of works. The Still Series came about because I was diagnosed with breast cancer on 10th August 2017. The diagnosis came two days after my 49th birthday, and the date of my grandfather HHC's birthday. The next morning, I woke at 5:15am remembering the pharmacy
museum bottles at the Heidelberg Museum in Germany, which I had visited in 2002. Those pharmacy museum bottles had been in my mind as something I wanted to make images about, but I was never quite sure how....at 5:15am on the 11th of August 2017 I could visualise the images. The series was intrinsically linked to my diagnosis. I knew I would need chemo, major surgery, and radiation. All these hideous things meant I needed to focus on creating something positive, as I was able. I was exhausted - making 'slow' images with a mousetrap camera to create photogenic drawing paper negatives, with exposure times of up to eight hours,
allowed me periods where I could rest in between. The bottles, inspired by the Heidelberg Pharmacy Museum (or Heidelberg Apotheken Museum in German) prompted recollections; bottles of photographic chemicals from my grandfather, a bottle of perfume my father gave to my mother…bottles are receptacles for many things, healing herbs and medicines, nourishing creams, food, and wine. To me they speak of memories and are perhaps allegories for life. Inherent in my photogenic drawing images are the links to Lacock Abbey in the UK, where I learnt the photogenic drawing process - the first photographic process from which a positive image can be made. William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the photogenic drawing process, and the first photographic process from which reproductions could be made, inspires me. I was mindful of some of his early camera images in the making of this series. He was very interested in botanical specimens too, as am I, hence their inclusion in these and many of my other works. Annemarie has a solo show on at Eade Gallery until the 4th of May. The Still Series and more of Annemarie’s photographic works can be viewed on her webpage www.annemariehopecross.com. Scroll down to
see What’s On in the Arts in Central Otago and surrounds this month.
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