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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: Shelley Simpson, Vessel, 2024 (detail), courtesy of the artist.}

In Stonesense, Shelley Simpson offers paradoxically intimate encounters with materials not typically associated with the body. Hand moulded objects are cast in iron to reenact the act of touching. A live electroforming processes takes place in situ, while solid lumps of slag, the byproduct of iron making, anchor metal plates and prop the door open. Alongside these sculptural experiments, Simpson presents microscopic views of iron as prints and video, revealing a strikingly organic world that sits beneath the threshold of attention.

Stonesense, Simpson's PhD exhibition, builds on her research into how such encounters can emphasise cellular and mineral connections between our human bodies and the material world. For Simpson: ‘We are all mineral beings. Bodies, whether animal, plant or lithic, enfold within them minerals such as iron...minerals that cross the binary of the living and the non-living, loosening the categories that separate entities in the world.'