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_{Image: Michael Mahne Lamb, Structure I (23002-11), 2024 (detail), courtesy of the artist.}

Based on the recent namesake exhibition at City Gallery Wellington, Michael Mahne Lamb's Through Points probes the boundaries of photography and sculpture. Working both with and against traditions of architectural, street, and conceptual photography, Lamb presents a body of analogue black-and-white prints, each enlarged to a point where the prints flex under their own weight and the film grain becomes highly pronounced. Presented with unique acrylic and aluminium supports, Lamb seeks to embody both physical and psychological experiences of the built environment.

_{Michael Mahne Lamb is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based artist, and co-director of photobook publisher Bad News Books. He completed an MFA at the University of Hartford in Connecticut in 2022, and the exhibition includes selected earlier works developed during Lamb's studies.}

_{Image: Esther Deans, The Source, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.}

Please join us Wednesday 18 September, 5–7pm to celebrate the opening of An Iconography of Doubt, by PhD candidate Esther Deans.
Deans’ practice is concerned with fragile ecologies; be it at a global scale, such as the impact of climate change, or a social domain, such as communities of faith, which Deans describes as an ecosystem of fellowship. The exhibition draws on a range of sources, including ideas of eschatology, time, literature, art history, memory, and nature, to build a unique and distinctive painterly language that speaks to both personal and universal themes.