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 […]
Side by side these images almost feel disturbing and difficult to look at, the colonial history all seems to lay on the other side of the paintings, objectified almost from a point of otherness. I am always scared that my paintings may be seen or read as removing indigenous Māori people, but my intension is […]
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 […]
I have been doing a lot of thinking, and coming back to this idea of the ‘artificial landscape’. I had been stuck on the artificial in relation to the virtual version, recreating a landscape digitally, this is one strand of an artificial but then had gotten interested in Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (1929) famous for its representation […]
My thoughts are not to be taken too serious, ideas which I ponder on the daily, where do I fit into this whole narrative, do I need to fit in anywhere. I am an immigrant of lost immigrant parents, ancestors who’s journey cross over many continents. I am not from Aotearoa, I am not from […]
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 […]
From what was said and what I am thinking of testing further I have made some plans which I want to test out and tease out, wanting to see them work in a space, I didn’t feel like they would have worked best for last hand in as it may have been too much. I […]
This post will look at notes and ideas which were brought up during the July seminar week. There were many things which I believe could have been changed to be better and make the exhibition install read better and become more specific and interesting to an audience. I’ll start with notes thanks to Alan: -Is […]
Installed in the new building created an environment to test and view the work in a new space, feedback physically giving back new ideas compared to the digital feedback. I was glad to be in a more serious and professional environment as it allowed for testing and failures. Tracks How we track and navigate through […]
Passages is an work which I made for a company’s, within Auckland city, project which I was a part of, reimagining how a company would reuse corflute signs, in the I made a painting depicting an array of areas around auckland which are popular gathering spaces for city dwellers. In this brief I was encouraged […]
Llenyd Price 