Antarctica is a landscape that exists only in most peoples imagination, known from photographs and other re-presentations in Antarctic Centres around the world. Anne Noble began to investigate this general experience while waiting to depart for the ice. To fill in time, she visited the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch and started to photograph what she could find of Antarctica in Christchurch, thus beginning the project that took her as far afield as Scandinavia and Japan and which is now presented in this exhibition.
'The Polar Sea (Japan), 2003-04
Antarctica, Nagoya, Japan, 2003.
Paradise Harbour, Antarctica, 2005
Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica, 2005.
This new work by Anne Noble interests me a lot and I think some of what she's talking about relates to what I'm wanting to do in my work. The whole tourism aspect and how we now see the world. We don't have to travel for weeks to get to far away countries. We can visit them in less than a day, or via the internet in less than a minute.
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