SOLOMON MORTIMER, ZAHRA KILLEEN-CHANCE
HANDSHAKE WEED
20/09/23 — 07/10/23
Handshake Weed presents 16 photographs from The Sun Sets Beneath the Ocean, Zahra Killeen-Chance and Solomon Mortimer’s 2023 book and exhibition at Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. The photographs were made during the time of Aotearoa’s second covid lockdown while the artists were in residence at Tylee Cottage, Whanganui. The works are part of an ongoing collaboration, but also record the suddenly circumscribed days of lockdown as experienced in an unfamiliar city — a time Mortimer has described as spent chasing shadows and light bars.
The Sun Sets Beneath the Ocean was published by the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui with the support of Creative New Zealand. Foreword by Sarjeant Gallery curator, Greg Donson; image sequencing by Ben Davis; design by Solomon Mortimer; typography by Joseph Salmon; cover image by Richard Killeen. Tri-fold insert with essay by Greg Donson and responses by Tylee Cottage Artist Residency alumni, Conor Clarke, Marie Shannon, Roberta Thornley and Richard Orjis.
A Tāmaki Makaurau Book Launch for The Sun Sets Beneath the Ocean will be held in the Handshake Weed exhibition on Saturday 23 September at 3pm Edition of 200. Cash Sales only. $65.
Zahra Killeen-Chance, Solomon Mortimer, The Sun Sets Beneath the Ocean
First published March, 2023
Published by Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui
Edition of 200
Handshake weed, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Skylight composition #06, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Tracing Pumice, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Skylight composition #03, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Kōwhai composition #01, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Fennel from a gun embankment, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Through the lounge window, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Kōwhai composition #04, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Shadow grass, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Wharf street weeds, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Zahra amongst the flying sea-foam, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Towards the dome, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Solomon warming his toes, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Wrapping the gallery, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5
Mangaweka Gorge, 2021
Silver gelatin print on warm tone fibre-based paper printed by Solomon Mortimer 2023,
155 x 197mm, Edition of 5