Margaret Dawson

Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1950

Woman at the Catholic Cathedral, Christchurch

Margaret Dawson poses outside Christchurch’s Catholic Cathedral with hat, gloves and handbag, recreating a photograph she found in the street and salvaged. The internal experience of this tightly buttoned-up churchgoer is overshadowed by the institution that towers over her. Where does her power lie?

(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)

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