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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have had a fascination with the connections scientific processes have with making work and how the ideas within that fascination can help drive my practice. Being interested in a scientific method, ways of starting a project or work slightly changes, the way I approach making and looking changes, I normally form drawings or sketches of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Llenyd Price 