Geoffrey Heath debuts his first solo exhibition with City Art Rooms in the new series North Shore FX. Heath documents young people modified by self-applied theatrical make-up. Stripped bare of sentiment and dramatic staging, the subjects are presented in their full humdrum glory.

 

Although composed in the classical genre of portraiture, Heath’s images do not attempt to define the individual. Instead, he discerns the results of their shared social activity: inventing fantasies while suspending disbelief.

 

Geoffrey Heath is a breakthrough Auckland photographer who recently exhibited at the Queensland College of Art gallery in Brisbane, Australia with other prominent New Zealand artists.