Gavin Hipkins
Biography
Gavin Hipkins, Blue Field, 2022–2024, 416 unique cyanotype prints, 418 x 296mm each, installation dimensions variable.
Installation view, Michael Lett, Karangahape Road.
Gavin Hipkins, Blue Field, 2022–2024, 416 unique cyanotype prints, 418 x 296mm each, installation dimensions variable.
Gavin Hipkins, The Deep, 2022 Installation view, Michael Lett, Karangahape Road
Gavin Hipkins, Texas Highway (detail), 2022, Suite of 20 inkjet prints on newsprint, 390 x 545mm each
Gavin Hipkins, The Habitat, 2000 Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. Photograph: John Lake
Gavin Hipkins, The Trench, 1997–1998 (detail), 1 of 80 projected slides, dimensions variable
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely II, 2001–2017, 2018 Installation view, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Crystal Palace (Park), 2015, archival pigment print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Te Wairoa (Falls), 1999, c-type print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, 1997–2000 Installation view, Unnerved, GoMA, Brisbane, 2010. Photograph: Natasha Harth. Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, City of Tomorrow, 2017 (production still), looped digital video, 11 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014, looped digital video, 20 minutes. Installation view, Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. Auckland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014 (production still), looped digital video, 20 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, The Crib, 2000 Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Colony, 2000–2002 Installation view in Metropolitan Iconographies: 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2002, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection
Gavin Hipkins, Zerfall, 1997–1998, Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Shaman (Grey), 2006, unique archival pigment print, 1200 x 1200mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Auckland (Path), 2004, unique silver-gelatin print, 375 x 375mm
Gavin Hipkins, Blue Field, 2022–2024, 416 unique cyanotype prints, 418 x 296mm each, installation dimensions variable.
Gavin Hipkins, Texas Highway (detail), 2022, Suite of 20 inkjet prints on newsprint, 390 x 545mm each
Gavin Hipkins, The Trench, 1997–1998 (detail), 1 of 80 projected slides, dimensions variable
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Crystal Palace (Park), 2015, archival pigment print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, 1997–2000 Installation view, Unnerved, GoMA, Brisbane, 2010. Photograph: Natasha Harth. Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014, looped digital video, 20 minutes. Installation view, Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. Auckland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, The Crib, 2000 Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, Zerfall, 1997–1998, Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Auckland (Path), 2004, unique silver-gelatin print, 375 x 375mm
Gavin Hipkins
Born 1968, Auckland (NZ). Lives and works in Auckland (NZ)
Over the past three decades, Gavin Hipkins has developed a practice in photography and moving image that frequently returns to the intersections of modernism and the post/colonial nation-state by repurposing images and texts. His work addresses the histories of his chosen media as well as the ways in which images have shaped the contemporary world as transmitters and visual manifestations of ideology.
Hipkins received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 1992 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 2002. An extensive survey of his practice, Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, was exhibited at the Dowse Art Museum in 2017. He has exhibited extensively both internationally and in Aotearoa. Hipkins represented New Zealand at the 2018 Asia Pacific Triennial, the 2002 Sao Paolo Biennale and the 1998 Biennale of Sydney. In 2006 he undertook a residency at the ISCP in New York and in 1998 he was selected as the inaugural New Zealand resident at Artspace Sydney. Hipkins’ first feature film Erewhon—based on Samuel Butler’s 1872 novel Erewhon, Or Over the Range—premiered in 2014 at the New Zealand International Film Festival and Edinburgh Art Festival.
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Gavin Hipkins, Blue Field, 2022–2024, 416 unique cyanotype prints, 418 x 296mm each, installation dimensions variable. Installation view, Michael Lett, Karangahape Road.
Gavin Hipkins, Blue Field, 2022–2024, 416 unique cyanotype prints, 418 x 296mm each, installation dimensions variable.
Gavin Hipkins, The Deep, 2022 Installation view, Michael Lett, Karangahape Road
Gavin Hipkins, Texas Highway (detail), 2022, Suite of 20 inkjet prints on newsprint, 390 x 545mm each
Gavin Hipkins, The Habitat, 2000 Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. Photograph: John Lake
Gavin Hipkins, The Trench, 1997–1998 (detail), 1 of 80 projected slides, dimensions variable
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely II, 2001–2017, 2018 Installation view, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Crystal Palace (Park), 2015, archival pigment print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Te Wairoa (Falls), 1999, c-type print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, 1997–2000 Installation view, Unnerved, GoMA, Brisbane, 2010. Photograph: Natasha Harth. Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, City of Tomorrow, 2017 (production still), looped digital video, 11 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014, looped digital video, 20 minutes. Installation view, Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. Auckland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014 (production still), looped digital video, 20 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, The Crib, 2000 Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Colony, 2000–2002 Installation view in Metropolitan Iconographies: 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2002, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection
Gavin Hipkins, Zerfall, 1997–1998, Installation view, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Shaman (Grey), 2006, unique archival pigment print, 1200 x 1200mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Auckland (Path), 2004, unique silver-gelatin print, 375 x 375mm