Final submission
Regulating the land How landscape is navigated and tracked has changed as a consequence of colonisation.Land gets broken up for new housing, earth is up turned and shifted around changing the landscape over the years. Barriers slice through the land, pavements snake alongside these rails, painted in a dark green to blend the metal into…
ORAL PRESENTATION
Oral presentation surrounding my practice. I found the feedback and discussions that came from this presentation went well and opened up future possibilities and areas of investigations. Discussions surrounding what landscape may mean and possible politics of landscapes and how as an outsider I approach ideas of conservation and whenua. Also highlighted were how object…
September hand in
Apparatus and regulation I test colours of brightness meant to stand out in front of dulled natural backgrounds. I contrast the blending of other colours. Some objects stand out on purpose while others try to hide themselves, made for a specific area the natural world. Attempts to see how apparatus work in a gallery setting…
Practice Statement
My work is concerned with the ongoing pressures that urban development has on native ecosystems. The ever creeping housing developments bleed into the land scape; boundaries change and push native forests back, and roads lay new paths like rivers through tall trees. An outsider of this land(what do you mean by being an outsider of the…
Lit Review
1: Imagining Decolonisation In the text Imagining Decolonisationfocusing on the text written by Moana Jackson, the ideas of colonization are discussed, some ideas which can also be found by supporting texts such as Decolonising Methodologies written by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. The idea of Decolonizing is discussed in relation to the history of colonization, stories discussed through journeys of indigenous Māori…
End.Of.Year
Sectioned off In my work I have been investigating the recent infrastructures that border various ecosystems local to me, harboring life found nowhere else in the world. Our landscape is getting more difficult to recognise as ‘Aotearoa’. Plants which are introduced creep into the natural ecosystem; human scraps are left lying around. Forest floors are littered with twigs…
Key Questions
Questions of key for going on, the next phase of works. What will I question? What is key? And how will I unlock the answers? These questions pose whether I approach them in one way or another, a moral back ground to a practice which may be considered rooted heavily in a history filled with…
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…
Contextual Statement
Dealing with issues facing the land of Aotearoa today I build a fascination toward histories of the land, gaining historical knowledge helps with, not only plant species, but also in understanding who had lived and voyaged to Aotearoa previously. In effects of what might be happening to these spaces currently, through effects of colonialism such…
Q and Aye
Llenyd Price, ‘Ferns above reserve’, mixed media on found wood, 2019. Q & A 1) what do you do? What sort of things do you make? Or select? Broken Landscape Paintings are made on found wooden discarded boards which I have gathered around building or renovation cites. These paintings are based on untouched areas founds…
Llenyd Price 