Installation – AARON LISTER

Eerie Pageantry

20242025

‘Don’t you see,’ implores Sergeant Neil Howie as he is led to the sacrificial bonfire in The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy, 1973), ‘that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?’. In this classic folk horror film, the modern worldview clashes violently with fertility rituals, human sacrifice, and ancient superstitions. Eerie Pageantry […]

Entering The Room of Time

20232024

In 2015 a number of plans were floated to redevelop the interior of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. One idea proposed the opening up of the entire ground floor space. The north-facing windows at the far end of the Hancock Gallery would be removed, and replaced with a second entrance, directly opposite the existing […]