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GALLERIES, program to 27 October 2018 Gallery 1 [Inner, small gallery space], Gallery 2 [Outer, big gallery space] Gallery 1 Brooke Georgia, Bachelor of Design in Craft Art, CPIT, 1999 with exhibition experiences at Form Gallery, NG and CoCA in Christchurch. 'insupportable' Running 3 - 29 September Opening Event, 3 September, 5:30pm, All Welcome. This body of work looks at issues of belonging and displacement. From pieces alluding to a lack of home or place, and a series of drawings resembling an instruction manual to not be quite whole, quite like “every body else”. This work is relentlessly full of longing and discomfort. The pillows never reach the floor, the makeshift tent is no refuge, the figures in the drawings are puppets, or mannequins never entirely whole, never entirely dressed. With posts for legs or feet or arms everything is makeshift in this world of tomorrow or yesterday. Nothing here will or was ever whole, and so asks us to be present with discomfort. Gallery 2 Ari Edgecombe, Curator of the Visual Arts at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho o te Taniwha and holds a Masters from University of Canterbury, Christchurch. 'the Water Oracle' Running 3 - 29 September Opening Event, 3 September, 5:30pm, All Welcome. the WATER ORACLE is a culmination of what is rare and precious. An act of gathering past experiences and merging them as an elemental form, a place, a vision. Inspired by the visual quality of water surfaces in the remote area of Tamatea, kelp forest views off the shore of Aramoana, the search for a long buried whale in the dunes of Oue and by patterns of weaving and net making, Ari Edgecombe creates an environment connected to water that becomes a site for memory, life and experience. Large-scale suspended sculptural forms and painted lengths of material converge with moving imagery in this deeply layered, atmospheric installation. Gallery 1 & 2 1 - 5 October The Nelson Atomic Gardening Society and The Refinery ArtSpace present 'A SONIC MEDIATION' Countdown 1 - 5 October during gallery opening hours. Launch 5 October, door open 7pm, experiment starts at 8pm. An experimental event in an effort to raise funds for reduced gallery hire fees for our exhibiting artists. All ticket sales will support this aim, valuing the importance of art being an essential ingredient for our wellbeing and the community we serve. With buying a ticket we would like you to email a recording of a recollection, in form of a voice memo, of an actual personal memory from any year between 1977 and 2018. www.eventfinda.co.nz/2018/a-sonic-meditation/nelson It may be profound, personal, regional, national, international or a cosmological event. Approximately 10 seconds long, and ideally they should be extremely trivial. Please mention the year of the event in your voice memo and email to nelsonatomicgardeningsociety@gmail.com We appreciate your participation, these recordings will be used at the launch. The event will commemorate the launch of Voyager 1 in 1977 and leaving the solar system into interstellar space in 2012, During the Countdown [1 – 5 October, gallery opening hours] to our launch October 5, 7 – 9pm, random artefacts that reflect our optimistic 70’s space frontiers a modular generative path will slowly evolve, with minimal Interferences from human intent, allowing the freedom of analog illogical expression and semi-random sound collages to happen. Some tickets will be available at reception during countdown and we encourage visitors to record recollections at the venue during that time. We would like to encourage people who bought tickets to dress to a chosen decade between 1977 to 2012. Let us surprise you at the launch – an experiment with intent but with random events being unavoidable. Gallery 1 TBC - 8 - 27 October Gallery 2 As part of the Readers & Writers Festival, Nelson Arts Festival 2018 Gallery 2 presents Running 8 - 27 October Opening Event, TBC. 'The Story Inside My Head' a collaborative project that will result in an exhibition that aims to brings art and literature together. Curated by Nelson-based artists David Ryan and Jo Kinross, this cross-over show aims to deepen the gallery visitor’s experience by linking art works with a story written by playwright and author Michelanne Forster. Invited artists are [in no particular oder]: Errol Shaw, Catherine Salmon, Katie Pascoe, Stella Chrysostomou, Gebhard Krewitt, Wanda Tait and Lee Woodman. __________________________________________________________________________________ Featured artist in our Foyer Jason McCormick In recent years, Jason McCormick’s art practice has shifted from being primarily focused on painting to involving ‘constructed photography.’ This entails building intricate and precise scale models of structures and then photographing the models in various constructed compositions. These end up either as stills or as stop-motion moving images. Interested in the themes of ‘power and control’, McCormick explains that he is concerned with how his artworks might draw attention to false or misleading impressions of reality. “My work considers how, through the process of model making, illusion can manifest on a number of levels. From the idea of the illusion of power, the illusion of dimension – large to small and back to large – to the illusion of authenticity. This draws attention to and reflects the artwork's intention to unmask the reality of corporate power and control using intentionally illusory strategies and processes. Trying not to be overly didactic, my aim is to elicit a certain feeling from the viewer that all is not as it seems.” McCormick was born in Blenheim and currently lives in Nelson. He holds a MA in Visual Arts from AUT and a Bachelor of Arts and Media from NMIT. - Jasonmccormick.com |
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3 Halifax St, Nelson PO Box 566, Nelson. 7040. Manager: Ann Braunsteiner E: refineryartspace@gmail.com P: +64[0] 21 089 11577 |
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