Masters Graduate Exhibition / 27-29th November 2020
Doing something, claiming time.
Whitecliffe Form Gallery, 67 Symonds Street, CBD, Tāmaki Makaurau
Presented works make up the outcome of a Masters of Fine Arts project focused on time spent in Opoututeka (Cox’s Bay), Tāmaki Makaurau.
Originating with a serendipitous encounter, and later custodianship of a small sailing vessel in the bay, time spent in Opoututeka focused on the rhythmic transitions within the intertidal / littoral mudflat and its boating community.
In this context the Sisyphean maintenance of boats provided a means of exploring the process of being and becoming, while simultaneously operating as a catalyst for reflections on belonging to this community and potentials for escape into or out of it.
List of Works:
Potential limitation, line of escape, 2020.
Digital video projection, sound.
9 min 45 sec.
Aid in maintenance, 2020.
24 framed photographs.
870 x 1030mm
Retaining a tide, 2020.
24 framed photographs.
1030 x 870mm
An incoming tide continued, 2020.
Diptych of 48 framed photographs.
870 x 2110mm
Laying an anchor, 2020.
26 framed photographs
1030 x 870mm
Returning moments, 2020.
Construction with water, solar panel and pump.
1960 x 775 x 555mm
The artist will arrive at 9:00am each day during the exhibition period to monitor and maintain the work Returning Moments.
Thesis available on request
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