Bruce Connew

#Photographe

Bruce Connew was born in New Zealand in 1949. He lives in Wellington and works in and out of New Zealand. Connew's most recently completed project, in collaboration with Dean Tiemi Te Au, explores the relationship between New Zealand Maori and their annual collection of the migratory muttonbird.

Exposition

I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon - Bruce Connew

Bruce Connew’s I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon opens as a photographic exhibition at {Suite} Gallery, New Zealand (March 24–April 16) and will be published later in the year as the final volume in his recent trilogy of artist books. Featuring a series of 24 photographic images, the concertina-format book will run as a signed and numbered limited edition of 600 copies. As with I Must Behave (2009), the second in the trilogy, I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon has been purposefully compiled without any accompanying text. Connew has asserted the importance of this move away from text as an attempt to negotiate any prescriptive interpretation of the works, although perhaps his title offers a signpost. Following on from I Saw You (2007) and I Must Behave, I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon continues to explore t...