Category Archives: Selected Exhibitions

Artworks, Hair work, Projects, Selected Exhibitions

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64zero3, Christchurch, July 2008

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Hero
A Bowl to Catch the Sun
Empire
Memory of Hat
Sky Chart
Hedge Maze
The Cockroach
Ouroboros
1:1 scale of the ‘pyramid’ on the reverse of the United States one-dollar bill

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These scans were taken prior to framing and feature in the accompanying catalogue.

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Hero
A Bowl to Catch the Sun
Empire
Memory of Hat
Sky Chart
Hedge Maze
The Cockcroach
Ouroboros
1:1 scale of the ‘pyramid’ on the reverse of the United States one-dollar bill

Link to the catalogue for this exhibition.

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Artworks, Projects, Selected Exhibitions, Text-based work

A Humid Day

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These works sit in a narrative, that of a day in the life of a young woman. I have taken text out of “graphic designed” items such as commercial packaging, signage etc. and replaced it with text from Untitled (2001) and changed the visual elements of these items to suit the text.

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Announcement card
Graph
Page excerpt from recipe book
Bookshop frontage
Page excerpt from a program manual
Museum poster
Book cover from Classics section in a bookshop
Pack of self adhesive labels.
Tickets to a play

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Based on existing forms and formats of graphic designed ephemera, a New Zealand bookstore (Whitcoulls) sign is transformed into the words “Falling into Fiction” and a Penguin Classics book is altered to mirror the questions the protagonist has. A museum poster, using the background of a piece corrugated cardboard, purports to show the increasingly jaded protagonist “Treasures of the Unknown and Uncharted”. A page from a computer manual helpfully delineates “methods” of making paintings.

And finally, in a form of mirroring (such as the play within a play or a story within a story), the person goes to the theatre, only to find “herself” as the character. Her companion never shows up.

Installation at the University of Auckland Gus Fisher Gallery in 2007

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Project Website
A Humid Day website. Formerly at www.ahumidday.info
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Click here to visit the project website.

 

 

A Humid Day E-Book Edition (Published 2014)

To download a copy of the recently digitised edition of the book, please follow this link.

A Humid Day (Abridged Version) 2014

A hard copy of the abridged version can be purchased on demand here.