Observations of a Rural Nurse

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Observations of a Rural Nurse (Hardback) By McIntyre, Sara RRP: $50.50 $40.40 Save $10.10 Pub Date 13 May 20 Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kakahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kakahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter for painting. Fifty years on, when she moved to Kakahi to work as a district nurse, she began to do the same on her rounds, as a photographer. This book brings together her remarkable photographic exploration her observations of Kakahi and the sparsely populated surrounding King Country towns of Manunui, Ohura, Ongarue, Piriaka, Owhango and Taumarunui.

Sara McIntyre was born in Wellington and worked there as a neonatal intensive care nurse for several years. In 2010 she moved to Kakahi in the King Country, where she had been coming to since her family arrived there for a fishing trip in 1960. While working as a district nurse, based at Taumarunui Hospital, she had the opportunity to further explore the area as a photographer. This led to her first solo exhibition at the Anna Miles Gallery in 2016. The Serjeant Gallery, Whanganui, will exhibit her work on May 2020.

' ... a truly magnificent collection of colour photographs, impressively large in size, capturing the richness of a sequestered territory and its isolated inhabitants, both outdoors and indoors.' - Clarke Isaacs, Otago Daily Times;'It's a cracker!' - Kathryn Ryan, RNZ; 'A thick book of astonishing photographs taken in the King Country, flicking through feels like going for a walk just after it's stopped raining.' - Unity Books Auckland ; 'The pleasures of Observations are many: rusted rooves and dilapidated exteriors contrast with almost Baroque interiors; communal spaces are sites of care, joy and public rigour; intimate and revealing portraits mix it up with landscapes of a little-visited and hilly, misted terrain. The shadow of Peter McIntyre may be ever-present but, with this book, Sara McIntyre presents a King Country that is hers alone.' - Don Abbott, Art New Zealand;