{"id":3563,"date":"2023-11-09T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:44:56","slug":"there-is-nowhere-to-go-there-is-nothing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/there-is-nowhere-to-go-there-is-nothing-to-do","title":{"rendered":"There Is Nowhere to Go, There Is Nothing to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There Is Nowhere to Go, There Is Nothing to Do<\/strong>
Greta Anderson with essays by Hanna Scott and David Eggleton
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“In Greta\u2019s images ordinary things radiate mystery, haloed by an ecstatic glow. Her pictures traverse eerie latitudes; they are brushed by the phantasmagoric; they pulse with a visceral brightness.”
At the Edge of a Dark Forest, David Eggleton <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book brings together a selection of photographs produced between 1997 and 2022 by T\u0101maki Makaurau based artist Greta Anderson, a prolific photographer, film maker and musician. For over a quarter century, Anderson has been capturing dramatic scenes in films and photographs that quietly reference intensely personal narratives. There Is Nowhere to Go, There Is Nothing to Do<\/em> presents Anderson\u2019s works, covering genres as wide as portraits, still life, wild and domesticated landscape and suburban tableau. The book is curated and designed by New Public, offering a fresh juxtapositions of images from a wide range of series and one-off artist books Greta made over the decades, from the classic Stand-ins<\/em> (2001), Uncomfortable Conversations<\/em> (2005), Optimistic Tragedy <\/em>(2008), to more recent No Hording<\/em> (2021) and The Transcenders<\/em> (2021). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book features two newly commissioned essays by long-time friend and supporter of Greta’s work, Hanna Scott, and esteemed poet laureate David Eggleton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Greta Anderson\u2019s strange, psychically charged images of the ordinary<\/a> Culture 101, RNZ – fun-facts-filled interview with Greta Anderson by Mark Amery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greta Anderson<\/strong> is an Aotearoa New Zealand musician, photographer and teacher. She exhibits regularly at Two Rooms Gallery in T\u0101maki Makarau Auckland. Her work has been shown at many venues for international contemporary art and photography including The Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney), The Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego), The Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Eggleton<\/strong> is a writer based in \u014ctepoti Dunedin. He was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019 -2022. He has won a number of awards for his writing, including the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2016. His books include Towards Aotearoa: A Short History of Twentieth Century New Zealand Art<\/em>; and Into the Light: a History of New Zealand Photography<\/em>; and Ready to Fly: the Story of New Zealand Rock Music<\/em>; and Seasons: Four Essays on the New Zealand Year<\/em>. He is a regular art reviewer for a variety of publishing platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanna Scott<\/strong> met Greta Anderson as the newly-minted Interim Director at Artspace on Karangahape Road in 2002. She has written about Greta\u2019s work four times over two decades. Twice for the NZ Journal of Photography<\/em>, for Landfall<\/em> and for Art New Zealand<\/em>. Hanna is an experienced contemporary art curator, programme manager and researcher, based in T\u0101maki Makaurau since 2002. Her writing is published in broadsheets, magazines and books in Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand and the USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Public<\/strong> is a design and publishing project based in T\u0101maki Makaurau. It collaborates with artists and institutions to exhibit research devoted to the discussion of contemporary visual and material culture. Titles include On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies in the work of Joyce Campbell<\/em>, Sternberg Press, Berlin, and Adam Art Gallery Te P\u0101taka Toi at Te Herenga Waka\u2013Victoria University, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2020; Qianye Lin and Qianhe \u2018AL\u2019 Li,Thus the Blast Carried It, Into the World \u5b83\u4fbf\u968f\u7740\u7206\u7834, \u51b2\u5411\u4e86\u4e16\u754c<\/em>, Coastal Signs and New Public, T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland, 2021; The Dialogics of Contemporary Art: Painting Politics<\/em>, Kerber, Bielefeld and Berlin, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN: 978-1-99-116522-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 128pp, with colour reproduction
Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 288mm x 220mm
RRP $50.00<\/p>\n\n\n

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This book compiles a thoughtfully curated selection of Anderson’s photographs, capturing dramatic scenes and referencing intensely personal narratives. Covering genres from portraits, still life to landscapes, the book presents a diverse range of series and one-off artist books created by Anderson over the years, including classics like Stand-ins (2001) and Optimistic Tragedy (2008) to recent works like No Hoarding (2021) and The Transcenders (2021). New Public has curated and designed the book, offering fresh juxtapositions of images. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,112,14,31,86,11,74],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborative-art","category-contemporary-art","category-design","category-new-zealand-art","category-photobook","category-photography","category-urban-environment","tag-publication-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}