The City of Gold and Lead by Ann Shelton. Softcover as New.

The City of Gold and Lead is the story of a town of equal parts: conventional and cryptic, a town with ordinary and arcane histories running in parallel. When Ann Shelton arrived in Whanganui in December 2012 for a three-month residency at Tylee Cottage, she found a city ripe for inquiry. The Tylee Cottage Residency requires artists to engage with the local, to make work as a response to this place and community. Shelton’s immersive, committed and thorough processes have always had a strong sense of place, making her uniquely suited to this type of residency programme. She uses short periods of time in precise locations and landscapes to explore broader themes of history, politics, evidence and loss. Traversing moments and places as disparate as a cholera outbreak in nineteenth century London (the index case, 2011-12), vestiges of Nazi Germany in suburban Timaru (in a forest, 2005-) and intimate collections of archives and personal memories (a library to scale, 2006, the result of her 2004 Govett Brewster Art Gallery residency), Shelton’s work conceptualizes documentary photography and problematizes accepted histories.

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