Process at Toi Pōneke Gallery brought together original works by the HS4 jewellery artists who were half-way through their two-year mentorship process. This challenging exhibition, designed by artist Gabby O’Connor extended the idea of process, both by the transformation of the Toi Pōneke space and through the inclusion of works in progress alongside the installed finished pieces.
The gallery became a space for experimentation, offering insights into the thoughts of presentation, idea, making, material transformations, and more……
Kylie Sinkovich
Caroline Thomas
Brendon Monson
Mandy Flood
Nik Hanton
Keri Mei Zagrobelna
Nadine Smth
Sandra Schmid
Vivien Atkinson
Katie Pascoe
Kim Whalen
Jennifer Laracy
Raranga kono workshop
Polarity thoughts and talks
Peter requested that I make my small intro talk for our opening into a blog so here it is 🙂 I will be sharing a few ideas with you on Polarity: the meeting of opposites; two forces, opposing yet mutually interdependent. It’s all real, and it’s all a dream. All...
Jewel wears Jewel
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Three OCTOBER 2018 exhibitions
exhibitions: JEWELdisplayJEWEL at Pataka, Porirua till 14 October MOREPOLARITY at Corbans, Auckland till 21 October MORETe Ao Hurihuri – Ever Changing World at the Crypt, London 23-27...
Non-Dualism
Polarity at Corbans Art Centre
7 September - 21 October 2018 HANDSHAKE 4 last public exhibition READ more
Dual Process
When we’re making decisions we approach the process using two different systems of thinking. In Psychology, the name for this process is called "Dual Process Theory". The first system is our intuition. It's swift, automatic, subconscious and emotional. The second...
Polarity and/both
Polarity suggests opposite ends, black and white, contrast, extremes, a certainty of one or the other. What I am interested in, is something less sure, the vaguely illuminating space in-between. Somewhere intuition, conflicted states and dissonance lie. Highs and...
Seeing self, observing others
Reflective materials interrupt spatial perceptions and redirect the viewer from not just seeing the object but places their own body in space in relation to that object. In Mirror Affect (2016), Christina Albu explores artworks with mirroring or reflective...
Intersection / Polarity
A different kind of Polarity... It's not news that there's a considerable overlap and intersection between different art practices. Maybe one of the least expected intersections could be the relationship between hip-hop and traditional art movements such as the...