School of Fine Arts

Professor

Anne Noble


Professor of Fine Arts (Photography)

College of Creative Arts Director of Research


MFA ( Auckland University )

BFA ( Auckland University )

Expertise in contemporary photography and installation practice with a special interest in the theories and practices related to contemporary documentary, landscape and participative research methods.

Anne Noble is internationally known as one of New Zealand ’s most highly regarded contemporary photographers. Her practice spans landscape, documentary and installations that incorporate both still and moving images. She often works in series enabling her to explore the medium and its possibilities in great depth. She has turned her attention to subjects ranging from The Wanganui River (1982) and (1990 - 91) to her evolving documentation of childhood, Ruby’s Room, 1998-2007. Within a multiplicity of subject matter and media, her work is consistently pre-occupied with people and the places they inhabit. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery curated a major retrospective exhibition of her work, STATES OF GRACE which toured New Zealand between 2001-2003.

Since 2002, Noble has been researching and photographing Antarctica continuing an ongoing investigation into landscape and representation. Questioning the practice of framing Antarctica as heroic, picturesque or sublime, Noble is searching for appropriate forms of representation in light of our current, rather than historical, relationship to place.


Research Highlights: Practice


2007 Anne Noble - Ruby’s Room, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
2007 Antarctica : Joyce Campbell, Anne Noble, Connie Samaras Pitzer Galleries Claremont College , Los Angeles
2007 Reveries: Photography and Mortality, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2006 ICONICA: The connection between contemporary art and reality, Patio Herreriano, Museom de Arte Contemporaneo, Valladolid , Spain
2006 In Cold Light, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne , Australia
2005 Anne Noble: Ruby’s Room, Speilhaus Morrison Gallery , Berlin , Germany
2005 Critic’s Choice 3. Jeno Grindl, Peter Hendricks, Reinhard Matz, Anne Noble, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin , Germany
2004 The Line Between Us. Anne Ferran, Donna Bailey, Polixeni Papapetrou, Pat Brassington, Anne Noble, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia


Research Highlights: Publication


2007 Anne Noble RUBY’S ROOM. Editions Nicolas Chaudun, Paris
2002 Paton, J. (2002) Anne Noble STATES OF GRACE VUW Press, New Zealand

Contact details:

Phone:
+64 4 8015799 ext 62101
Email:
a.noble@massey.ac.nz
Address:
Private Box 756 , Wellington 6140

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