I spent 32 days in New Zealand on the South and North Islands. I took 15,240 photographs which I heavily edited while visually completing photographic stories of my New Zealand research.

This series of photographs is a merging of my artistic and academic skills as a visual arts researcher. It is the artful process of developing a body of photographs depicting that experience. The visual narrative that emerged is similar to grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) used for my academic research. New Zealand told me what photographs needed to be taken and my photographic eye knew when to take the photographs from my years of experience as an artistic photographer. Each of the photographs were printed and framed for exhibition at the Art Gallery of Sudbury.

I create photographic stories by allowing the experience to speak to me. I put together photography exhibitions by collecting large amounts of data (photographs), intensively editing while comparing and contrasting. Each of the photographs tells a visual story. As I continuously edited my photographs for months while making files in folders, I asked myself:

What was my experience of New Zealand?

How can I represent this experience so that it has the feeling of what each inspiring photograph had when I took the shot?

It is a reliving and recreating of experience while working with specialty papers to photographically tell the stories. The 14-limited edition colour archival quality giclée photographic prints are the result of my amazing New Zealand experience. 

Kathy had support from Laurentian University for her New Zealand research and publication/exhibition and the Art Gallery of Sudbury. 

Allans Beach
I walked up the sand dunes from Sandfly Beach which is near Dunedin on the South Island. In the foreground are the lush rolling hills of the Otago Peninsula. There is a kilometre long spit of fine white sand that separates Hoopers Inlet from the Pacific Ocean.

See Kathy’s New Zealand video at:

https://artsudbury.org/en/whats-on/exhibitions/kathy-browning-new-zealand-2/

Bio

Kathy Browning is an Artist and an Art Educator. She has a Ph.D. and B.Ed. from University of Toronto, an M.F.A. from York University, and a B.F.A. Honours from the University of Manitoba. Kathy has taught Visual Arts and Technology at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. She has shown artwork in all art media in Canada and the United States. Kathy has received provincial and national awards and recognitions for art, videos, art education, writing, publishing, and editing. Kathy’s giclée photographic prints are on archival paper in editions of 10. 

Please see the following URLs for her websites and videos.  

https://laurentian.ca/videos-visual-artists-greater-sudbury

www.northernartistsgallery.ca/member/kathy-browning/

https://tarenwhitegallery.ca/artists/kathy-browning/