Temporary housing + shelter

A series of work produced for the publication project, Temporary housing + shelter by split/fountain. Publication design by Layla Tweedie-Cullen. Printed on risograph. Edition of 300. Launched in September at Tokyo Art Book Fair 2012.

Forgotten Prospect @ split/fountain

Forgotten Prospect Project

More info and photos here.

Exhibition:
9 June - 7 July
Opening Friday 8 June 6pm

War film event:
Saturday 23 June 8pm – Sunday 24 June 8am

Artist talk:
Saturday 7 July 2pm

split/fountain
3C/23 Dundonald Street
Eden Terrace
 

Forgotten Prospect was made possible with support from Creative New Zealand, the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and the Japan New Zealand Exchange Programme (NZJEP).

Forgotten Prospect 9 June - 7 July 2012

Exhibition:
9 June - 7 July
Opening Friday 8 June 6pm

War film event:
23 June 8pm – 24 June 8am

split/fountain
3C/23 Dundonald Street
Eden Terrace

Forgotten Prospect was made possible with support from Creative New Zealand, the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and the Japan New Zealand Exchange Programme (NZJEP).

Ulex vexillum @ The Sculpture Park

Gorse was once introduced by European settlers to New Zealand and quickly took over North Island much like the settlers themselves. Now regarded as a pest plant, the plant is readily removed from farms as well as the Sculpture Park.
A large gorse-dyed linen flag is suspended between two pine trees on the hill looking out to the Waikato plain. The setting incorporates the Waikato farmland as a borrowed scenery into the installation. Ulex vexillum breaches the boundary between the farm and arboretum, and extends the inquiries into the layers of human interventions to the park and beyond.

Ulex vexillum is a site-specific installation for the exhibition curated by Kim Paton for the Sculpture Park at Waitakaruru Arboretum.

Call and Response
17 March - 10 June 2012

The Sculpture Park
Waitakaruru Arboretum
207 Scotsman Valley Rd
Tauwhare, Waikato
http://www.sculpturepark.co.nz

Drawing a Sea @ Art in the Dark 2011

Drawing a Sea is a site-specific light installation that traces an imaginary shoreline with string lights that will rest 40 metres above sea level on the ground of Western Park. This height set out for the lights reflects the highest rise of water (run-up) in sea-level recorded in a small cove in Miyako City in the recent Japanese tsunami.

Even with an abundance of video footage of the tsunami engulfing the land, it is hard to grasp what people actually went through on that day. The artist hopes that as the audience wander in and out of the surface of this imaginary tsunami, the incomprehensible will become comprehensible.

Art in the Dark http://www.artinthedark.co.nz/
Western Park, Ponsonby, Auckland.
11-12 November 2011


















Looking up the "surface".


Panoramic view from inside of the "sea". (Compiled from four photos, spans approx. 225 degrees.)


From the east end of lights towards the west side of the hill.


Detail.







This project was made possible with supports from Art in the Dark 2011 team, La Lumiere who sponsored 450m string of lights, and Cameron, Tim & George who helped me setting out the height of the ground.

Art in the Dark 2011

New work of a site-specific installation will be part of Art in the Dark, two nights event of art in Western Park, Freemans Bay/Ponsonby.
11 & 12 November 2011

www.artinthedark.co.nz


Drawing a Sea, a concept sketch.

Surface Characteristics @ split/fountain

Inconspicuous Motto

Surface Characteristics 29 July – 20 August 2011

A group show with Claire Cooper, Clara Chon and Xin Cheng

Surface Characteristics @ split/fountain