David Loughlin
Artist
Artist Profile
David Loughlin is a New Zealand lens-based artist and registered architect whose work explores relationships between whenua, ecology, memory and photographic process through contemporary and nineteenth-century photographic practices.
He lives and works in Whāingaroa Raglan and is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
Can ritual observation and photographic process deepen our relationship with whenua and whakapapa?
Repeated visits to specific sites with intent to deepen understanding and relationship.
Encounter
Digital observations made through repeated return and attention
Commitment
Wet Plate Collodion slows photographic seeing through ritual and material process
Transformation
Cameraless works made with oneone, rongoā plants and light
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