Winner - The Wellington Photographic Supplies Graduand Photographer of the year Award - 2011

Ryan McCauley has just completed his Bachelor of Design (honors) majoring in photographic design at Massey University. His major project work focused around ideas of reality, memory and play. The work is entirely photographed on a pinhole camera which he constructed himself specifically for the project which is a continuation of his interest in alternate processes of image making. Ryan was awarded the Wellington Photographic Supplies Graduating Photographer of the Year award for his continuous high standard of work throughout the course of his studies. He has also been selected to exhibit at Thistle Hall alongside well-known photographers Ans Westra and Andrew Ross for Thistle Hall’s final exhibition of the year, which is a documentary project celebrating the upper region of Cuba Street. Ryan’s interest is in photography, architecture and the built environment. He wishes to further develop these interests through a Masters of Fine Arts focusing on the role of architecture and the built environment within the context of a post-conflict society.

'Show V' at Nina Van Der Voorn Gallery

Spectrum Graduate Exhibition

"In Response" Exhibition

Photography Exhibition - PARALLAX

Student exhibition Co-op Opening Saturday



Wayne Barrar at College of Arts and Sciences American University/Katzen Art Centre, Washington D.C.

Wayne Barrar, Underground office, Space Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA 2004. Courtesy of the artist.

Associate Professor Wayne Barrar is currently showing  'An Expanding Subterra' In Washington D.C. at the American University Museum/ Katzen Art Center. 

Since 2002, New Zealand photographer Wayne Barrar has been shooting underground structures. Not caves and other natural features, but rather man-made facilities such as mines and power plants.

His pictures — which include a Carlsbad Caverns restroom, subterranean office cubicles and what’s advertised as the world’s first underground paintball park — have a surreal quality. There are no people in them. But if there were, you’d half expect them to look like the troglodytic Morlocks from the 1960 film version of H.G. Wells’s “The Time Machine.”

There’s another weird thing about Barrar’s photos: A surprising number were taken in Kansas City, Mo.

That’s because, over the past few decades, the town has made something of a name for itself for the creative re-purposing of old limestone mines, several of which have been been turned into thriving businesses, including one with the fanciful name of SubTropolis. According to the Atlantic magazine, which wrote about K.C.’s booming subterranean real estate market last year, it’s the world’s largest underground industrial and business park, with six miles of roads and 5 million square feet of leased warehouse, light-industry and office space.

Working there — which entails commuting via a hole in the side of a hill — has its advantages. Since there are no heating or cooling costs involved in the naturally climate-controlled environment, businesses can accurately boast of in­cred­ible energy savings. But the weather can get a bit monotonous, too, as the Atlantic reported, with a forecast that is eternally “overcast and mid-60s.” 

Washington Post Review at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/art-review-fall-exhibitions-at-au-museum/2011/09/08/gIQAL8yaUK_story.html?wpisrc=nl_gogthu