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EXHIBITION -EVENT PROGRAMME to end of 2019
3 - 29 September 2019
'BILDUNGSROMAN' - Areez Katki
Traveling Exhibition.
29 new works by the artist, developed over the past eight months while he was living and working in India. The exhibition focuses on Katki’s personal heritage, specifically in relation to Zoroastrianism and the Parsi community to which his family belongs. Through his needlework based craft practice, Katki explores third-wave diaspora and the survival of Zoroastrianism, alongside his own revelations and responses to this now-powerful minority in Mumbai.
Exhibition Catalogue: uxbridge.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Exhibition-Publication.pdf
Critical Reviews: www.pantograph-punch.com/post/areez-katki-bildungsroman
Opening celebration Thursday 5th September, 5.30pm
30 September - 9 November 2019
'RAW 2' - an Arts Council Nelson Initiative
Opening celebration Monday 30th September, 5.30pm
11 November - 7 December 2019
Billy Apple© - Institutional Critique - Refinery ArtSpace
Some reading material here: www.thearts.co.nz/artists/billy-apple
'His Institutional Critiques represent his long-range investigations into the site-specifics, context and politics of spaces where art is exhibited. '
More details - Opening, Artist Talk to be confirmed soon.
9 December 2019 - 18 January 2020
Dii Moffat - Paintings
'Moffatt (Macandrew Bay, New Zealand) is an artist who mainly works with painting. By questioning the obvious, Moffatt finds that movement reveals the un-noticed. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for change.
Her paintings isolate the movements of subjects and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between object and hyperobject. By applying abstraction, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a manner that is sometimes physical, and believes in the idea of subject following form in a work.
Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and use everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, she creates intense personal moments created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Dii Moffatt currently lives and works in Dunedin.'
Centre for Fine Woodworking - end of Master Programme of Fine Furniture Programme.
Opening yet to be confirmed.
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3 - 29 September 2019
'BILDUNGSROMAN' - Areez Katki
Traveling Exhibition.
29 new works by the artist, developed over the past eight months while he was living and working in India. The exhibition focuses on Katki’s personal heritage, specifically in relation to Zoroastrianism and the Parsi community to which his family belongs. Through his needlework based craft practice, Katki explores third-wave diaspora and the survival of Zoroastrianism, alongside his own revelations and responses to this now-powerful minority in Mumbai.
Exhibition Catalogue: uxbridge.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Exhibition-Publication.pdf
Critical Reviews: www.pantograph-punch.com/post/areez-katki-bildungsroman
Opening celebration Thursday 5th September, 5.30pm
30 September - 9 November 2019
'RAW 2' - an Arts Council Nelson Initiative
Opening celebration Monday 30th September, 5.30pm
11 November - 7 December 2019
Billy Apple© - Institutional Critique - Refinery ArtSpace
Some reading material here: www.thearts.co.nz/artists/billy-apple
'His Institutional Critiques represent his long-range investigations into the site-specifics, context and politics of spaces where art is exhibited. '
More details - Opening, Artist Talk to be confirmed soon.
9 December 2019 - 18 January 2020
Dii Moffat - Paintings
'Moffatt (Macandrew Bay, New Zealand) is an artist who mainly works with painting. By questioning the obvious, Moffatt finds that movement reveals the un-noticed. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for change.
Her paintings isolate the movements of subjects and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between object and hyperobject. By applying abstraction, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a manner that is sometimes physical, and believes in the idea of subject following form in a work.
Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and use everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, she creates intense personal moments created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Dii Moffatt currently lives and works in Dunedin.'
Centre for Fine Woodworking - end of Master Programme of Fine Furniture Programme.
Opening yet to be confirmed.
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