Chimeras! Oh my! Ben Lysaght (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Pakeha) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Chimeras! Oh my! is a collage exhibition which experiments and embraces the tactility of papers and the happenstance in finding old imagery. Collage, for Lysaght, is about creating new relationships out of disparate sources and finding a way to make sense out of the chaos of random stacks found in book fairs and op shops. This is often their last stop before being destroyed, collage gives them the ability to be reimagined within new contexts. In Chimeras! Oh my! Lysaght has brought a magical lens to the printed image, transforming symbols of pop culture, mythology and sexuality into something both familiar...
Duality by Samuel O'Malley \An art exhibition featuring paintings by Samuel O'Malley, focussing on the theme of dualism, human dominion over nature, and idioms to stimulate narratives. The exhibition invites viewers to delve into the complexities of artificial experiences through television stills, synthetic materials compared jarringly against Mother nature traditions. Each diptych serves as a visual dialogue, showcasing conflicting or comparable subjects whilst coexisting, some works inspired by idioms and novels to start this connection. The works encourage viewers to question the nature of opposites and seek the hidden connections between seemingly disparate concepts. https://huntersandcollectors.net.nz/collections/art All of the works are listed under the 'Art' section of our website in full detail. We offer a 2 month layby on all art...
REMNANTS1. 'a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed ordestroyed’.A fashion exhibition created from repurposed textilesby Paula Collier and Aeron Balgemino.This collaboration between artist Paula Collier and Design graduate AeronBalgemino came about through a shared vision to design a collection with preexisting materials and utilise the textile waste that is becoming an increasinglyurgent issue in the fashion industry.They want to challenge the western consumer led obsession with fast fashion andthe devastation that mass production of clothing has on our lived environment.This collection utilises their personal stores of short end fabrics, collected vintageclothing and leftover dead stock fabric.Their design practice is a labour of collection, selection, repair, deconstruction andreassembly, it is a materials led...
To view and purchase please CLICK HERE TESSA AYLING-GUHL GEIST Geist is an intimate body of photographic portraits by Tessa Ayling-Guhl. Largely untranslatable from German, the term Geist contains the English meanings of ghost, spirit, mind, and intellect in one – and in so doing encapsulates a person’s essence, the elemental quality of the body as well as its fallibility. The title is a fitting tribute to the subject of the images – the visionary artist, dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright (1956-2018). Born in Tuakau in the Waikato in 1956, Wright began his career as a dancer with Auckland-based Limbs Dance Company in the early 1980s. He went on to spend time in New York with the Paul Taylor Company, and in London...
Weathering is the process of wearing by long exposure to the atmosphere—the destruction and creation of landscapes by the long passage of geological time. Weathering is an exploration of these natural processes that shape the landscapes around us, told through the medium of film photography - itself an example of exposure facilitating creation. These photographic works serve as an alternative, and an accompaniment, to Flo Isaacs’ scientific research into the same subject. Weathering gives great weight to the idea that art and science are two sides of the same coin, different approaches to make sense of the world we live in. Flo Isaacs is a photographer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Flo uses the medium of film photography to engage with...
