Art in Kirikiriroa
Museum NCAA National Contemporary Art Award consists of an array of artist in the visual arts.The work in this show, although obviously disconnected for the competition, consisted of ideas and materials which interested me, a fair few of the works caught my eye. The works of interest had focuses on looking and observing but also…
Exhibition and Install plans
Some points and notes from the meeting. -Material Contrast-Revisiting / Time – Analogy of time through the works-Different visual approaches / light in time – play through installation-Temporal moments-Different aspects-Exploration of the moments (in paint and areas)-Illusion – Methodology to make space-The fleeting moment-Eludes to space-Install ideas in relation to location Milli Jannides at Costal…
Artist Models 2
Stella Corkery Stella Corkery’s work often plays off of musical investigations and experiences, her work draws from art histories and a pop sensibility. Corkery creates paintings with a test and play of materials, gesso is a material often used in painting but isn’t often referenced in artists work, Corkery however attempts to include all materials…
Book Shelf
These are some image research from books I am interested in, I hope to continue to add to this list. This list is an accumulation of books I have and have gotten out from around the place. I see a slight relevancy in these books in different ways from art to ideas, ways of making…
Artist Models
Laura Owens Laura Owens paintings play with texture, layering and exploring space seemingly through materials. Paintings have a clear sense of imagery but testing the materials such as with the monkey as paint seeps into the canvas it sits on creating a fuzzy texture, bark of trees feel textured through layering and paints sitting next…
Shows (placement / install)
Over time I have looked at a few galleries, art installations or events around Tāmaki Makarau. I have be come aware or interested in the installation of work, how it is shown and displayed to communicate ideas. Installation is something that can help elevate work but can also get in the way of work, how…
Walters Prize 2021
Projections with a pair of drawings and a large curved seat in the middle, I almost feel as if there was a disconnect of materials from projection to having the physical work in the space. Lacey’s works were calming even with the overwhelming size, I normally feel engulfed and confronted with large works but the…
Of Research
Works and ideas for consideration moving forward, idea, installation, presentation and how to navigate how and what I am working with / about. Jae Hoon Lee, Akiko Ueda, Nancy Lupo. “This landscape doesn’t exist in reality; instead it is comprised of a series of images of real locations that have been multiplied and manipulated, anchoring…
Shows (as a way to collaborate)
Exhibition Review Object space GalleryTunaga Funaki and Salle Tamatoa Weavings sit upon the wall, a collection of materials and variety of sizes. The talk with Salle was engaging and insightful opening up conversations of his own approaches to the practice alongside his Nan’s approaches to making. The use of materials made sense in relationship to cultural…
GROUNDWORK
Ground work is a sculptural show at St Peters including a variety of sculptural displays. Seeing the works which have often been observed in a gallery setting allowed new perspectives, some works sat between buildings playing off the grass green and the walls, often metallic works could show the surroundings reflecting outwards. Whilst wondering and navigating…
Longevity
In the world of art there seems to be an obsession over how long something lasts, preserving items, artefacts and paintings. This obsession is of interest to me. Preserving the longevity of well-known art works in relation to how long my work or the work of others would last for. Museums and art galleries almost…
The surrealism of landscape
Our mind was an access point to nature and the outside world before plein air, we had various ways of recording the outside, the inaccessible. Our mind may alter reality, but so does plein air, accuracy isn’t the point any more, not to me. I went to nature to escape the hectic world, to calm…
Cementing my ideas
A material which I had recently used was concrete panels, these panels were interesting and opened my eyes to new possibilities, the material was one which is so familiar to construction, it is a material which is found everywhere. Choosing what type of mix I wanted to use. Purchased from Bunnings. Frames have been made…
Exhibition Review
Hannah Ireland. Handshake in Hamilton.Weasel Gallery, 260 Victoria Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton, Handshake in Hamilton is an exhibition which consists of rectangular boxes displayed at a variety of heights amongst a plethora of items and other wall hanging objects. The gallery is narrow which encourages the viewer to be intimate with the rectangular boxes displayed on the walls alternating…
Reimagining the past
Why am I doing this, why is it relevant? Why should we look at the past, and should I be looking at it? Am I focusing too much on the history in the wrong way, does it become insensitive? How do I approach landscape in Aotearoa respectfully, and bring my knowledge and understanding of it…
Museum Moa
Large blue objectOutside Weathered Stone Carved Dinosaur like Laying on the ground White figures surround: possibly representing birds, water birds, cormorants on opposite sides Tui Materials look sturdy Stone Porous Blue / tealSwan has a pool of water on the top of it 3D printed Outdoors, birds chirping in the back ground Initial reactions to a teal shaped sculpture sitting outside the Auckland art gallery. Laying…
Louise Henderson
From Life exhibition is an exploration of Henderson’s life within New Zealand, including works made in other regions of the world including Paris and the Middle East. Each seperate room seems to explore a specific time of Henderson’s experiences within these countries.[1] Henderson includes native plant species into the statement, letting the viewer in to…
HoCKneY
David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape I was fascinated by Hockney’s video works which were a continuation from a previous work Pearblossom highway (1986) that had been a collage of multiple images taken at different angles of a singular area stitched together creating a final landscape image. The videos take a similar approach to this idea although…
Llenyd Price 