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Artworks, Projects, Selected Exhibitions

Dreams Moons Circles Fictions

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(and fragments found on the forest floor of disquietude)

A solo survey show of works (2003-2014) exhibited at the Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, February 2014

For this exhibition, the projects A Humid Day and Untitled (White Book) were released as e-books.  

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A selection of works included in this solo survey show:

Untitled (Exportware)
Moon Bowl II
Monday
Body without Organs
Contemplating difference
Icons for observing points of the mind
Disappearance scheduled for Friday
She thought she was in a play when the whole scene had to be repeated again
You would, wouldn’t you? (For Ms AJ who remembers every minute of her life)
Hero
Familiar Spirit of The Cold Blooded Eater
Optimimsical
The economic interpretation of history is for the birds
Following fumbling falling finding fantasticities
They are usually wearing white.

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images courtesy of Papakura Art Gallery.

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Click here for images of the opening on Papakura Art Gallery’s facebook page.

To download the e-books featured in the show, please follow this link for further information.
 

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dreams Circles Moons Fictions and fragments found on the forest floor of disquietude held at Papakura Art Gallery in February 2014. For images click here.

An introduction by Tracey Williams, and a catalogue essay by Dr. Cathy Tuato’o Ross.

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Artworks, Found images, Selected Exhibitions

Resolution

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Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, August 2013

The Pleasantly Unnameable
Oh now, really? Well, so long and thanks for all the fish!
Following fumbling falling finding fantasticities
Bling Master and the Pink Bananas
Demeter’s man disappearing under a fog of spots
Enough with the irrelevant information, the point is now here
If only windows could roll too!

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A cloud to think about.
Conflagration of a bad star releasing energy
A triangulated chain reaction.

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Measured response to: “This little fellow is quite content to be held up for inspection…”
Aye, she’s beautiful, isn’t she? (the Sublime Monster sings the Song of the Universe)
The economic interpretation of history is for the birds

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Photography-based work, Selected Exhibitions

Disappearance scheduled for Friday and other works.

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Disappearance scheduled for Friday and other works.

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Exhibited in Page Blackie Gallery and Melanie Roger Gallery 2011/2012

Preparation Form #1
Disappearance scheduled for Friday
She thought she was in a play when the whole scene had to be repeated again
Looking down one spotted that reality and mind are one and perhaps the same?
Once in a blue moon illusions detach from reality and float up into the sky, only to return again the next day slightly hungover

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Installation at Page Blackie Gallery, 2011.

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Artworks, Photography-based work, Selected Exhibitions

Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once

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Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once

Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, September 2011

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Entering or Exiting, coming or going one wonders about the March of Time
Contemplating the eternal mind of Memory without the Body
Approaching with recklessness, drawing from the hilt with supernovas

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A Conflation of Fiction and Reality with a Switched On negation
Crinicultural Anxiety: An unsure fare-ye-well for the music of hair
The Eclipsing of Manners by a multitude of Retina Collapsing Patches
The Black Sunset wishes the Harlequin trade upon a Yellow room
Structural Constellations on the surface of a Neuro-Kinetic statement
Circles and Cycles make statistical claims and marks upon the Body
Interrupted Passageways through following an émigré
Time going Backwards with assistance

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Installation views.

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Entrance to Gallery 2
West wall
West and North wall
North wall
North wall
South Wall

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Exhibition catalogue with essay by Victoria Wynne-Jones can be downloaded here.

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Projects

Threaded Stories

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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia

A collaborative community project, facilitated by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney. Read more here & here.

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Embroidery hoops being prepared for the session.
Example of the chrysanthemum motif embroidered
Slideshow talk to the participants
Handling hair
Threading a needle with hair
Stitching with hair
First stitches
Template with embroidery underneath
Completed chrysanthemum embroidery.

 

.Photos by Garry Trinh.

Photos by Garry Trinh.

Artworks, Ceramics, Photography-based work, Selected Exhibitions

Exportware

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Photographic laser decals depicting a solitary woman in uncertain garb were fired onto found ceramic bowls. Alluding to trade routes of ceramics between Asia and Europe, this work speaks to the eventual migration of bodies from Asia to the rest of the world. Referencing Japanese souvenir ceramics in which an East Asian woman is drawn into a ceramic bowl, this work also recalls ancient incantation bowls on which Lilith, an ambiguous female archetype feared by some but also heralded as a symbol of female empowerment by feminist thinkers, appears.

Exhibited at Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, November 2010 & in various places.

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Ceramic decal images. 

 

 

Untitled (Exportware)

Found bowls with ceramic decals fired onto them, and painted over with acrylic.

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Installation views at Page Blackie Gallery

 

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Photographic laser decals depicting a solitary woman in uncertain garb were fired onto found ceramic bowls. Alluding to trade routes of ceramics between Asia and Europe, this work speaks to the eventual migration of bodies from Asia to the rest of the world. Referencing Japanese souvenir ceramics in which an East Asian woman is drawn into a ceramic bowl this work also recalls ancient incantation bowls on which Lilith, an ambiguous female archetype, feared by some but also heralded as a symbol of female empowerment by modern feminist thinkers, appears.

Associated essay by Vera Mey.

Artworks, Hair work

Moonbowls

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These were the final embroideries I made with hair. Featuring Sue Upritchard’s grey locks, and my own black hair. To read more about this body of work, scroll down or navigate to the page Mythical Creatures. Or refer to the artist’s book & catalogue, 9, published in 2008. There’s probably a few things floating around the internet about this body of work too.

 

Moon Bowl I
Moon Bowl II
Moonbowl III

 

August 2010