The Adam Art Gallery is pleased to present a forum featuring some of New Zealand's leading commentators, writers and artists who have experienced, or share a fascination with Antarctica. These include Kim Hill (Broadcaster), Bill Manhire (Poet and writer), Stella Brennan (Artist/Curator) and Anne Noble (Photographer).

The Drama of Looking
The Adam Art Gallery
Saturday 24 September - 2pm

Image: Peter Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, 1996 - 2005, Collection of the ArtistThe Adam Art Gallery is pleased to present a forum featuring some of New Zealand's leading commentators, writers and artists who have experienced, or share a fascination with Antarctica. These include Kim Hill (Broadcaster), Bill Manhire (Poet and writer), Stella Brennan (Artist/Curator) and Anne Noble (Photographer).

The Drama of Looking
The Adam Art Gallery
Saturday 24 September - 2pm

Image: Peter Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, 1996 - 2005, Collection of the ArtistArtists and writers have, for over a century, endeavoured to record and represent Antarctica. Historically perceived as a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa', visitors to this ice-covered continent often experience a shift in their perception of the real and the illusory as they attempt to define 'place' in this space that is constantly shifting.

The forum entitled, The Drama of Looking will explore the act of seeing, perceiving and representing Antarctica. It will focus on the complex interplay between the real and the illusory and the prevailing perceptions and interpretations of Antarctica in literature and the visual arts.

This free public forum will be held at the Adam Art Gallery on Saturday 24 September at 2pm.

The four invited panellists will present papers in response to some of these ideas focusing on their own experiences and interpretations of Antarctica.

This forum is a great opportunity to gain first hand insight into the ways in which we perceive and represent Antarctica's alien, yet alluring terrain.