Gavin Hipkins
Gavin Hipkins is an Auckland-based artist who works with photography and film. His photographs and moving image works interrogate how images create meaning through modernist technologies. His work explores the nation state, particularly in colonised countries in an era of re-imagined communities and ideas of social and political utopia. His recent moving image works engage film as a cinematic art that blurs conventional genres of essay film, documentary and experimental narrative structures.
Gavin Hipkins on CIRCUIT · 15 works
Motion of a Current (2024)
Motion of a Current documents Tāmaki Makaurau’s public gardens using slow-motion video recording. Diverse garden landscapes and flora details come together in a hybrid form of sanctuary, a backdrop to the city’s rhythms, communities, and neighbourhoods.
Nature Writing (2023)
Filmed at night over a number of days, Nature Writing is a rhythmic, observational portrait of real and imagined wildernesses.
Writing & podcasts featuring Gavin Hipkins
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
Artists Layne Waerea, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Gabriel White and Tia Barrett discuss their video works for Wild Wild Life with curator Mark Williams.
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life is a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day. Featuring works by Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White.