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Now Showing:

Architecture For The Nation

- New Artists Show 2008
Dates: Saturday, 14 June 2008 - Saturday, 19 July 2008

YOU ARE HERE

Kah Bee Chow, Fiona Connor, Finn Ferrier, Alex Monteith, John Ward Knox

Curated by Ariane Craig-Smith, ARTSPACE 2007 Curatorial Intern

Exhibition dates: 2 February – 1 March 2008

Fiona Connor
Props, 2008
Wood, paint, acrylic, brackets

Fiona Connor, Kah Bee Chow & Finn Ferrier
Clear Float, 2008
glass, scaffolding
(constructed by MetroGlassTech & Safeway Scaffolding)

Photographer: Alex North

The 2008 ARTSPACE programme opens with You Are Here, Ariane Craig-Smith’s graduation exhibition. This is the culmination of her 2007 Curatorial Internship at ARTSPACE.

For this exhibition Craig-Smith invited five artists to explore personal strategies of mapping and says “I was responding to ideas within the work of these artists that excited me. Each speaks through individual concerns of concepts that I feel are universal. I’m interested in how we negotiate our way through the world and form personal relationships to the spaces we pass through or inhabit. Working with the artists has been fantastic, seeing new work unfold and existing projects evolve.”

Kah Bee Chow, Fiona Connor, Finn Ferrier, Alex Monteith and John Ward Knox present new and existing works which extend the idea of the map and its propositions beyond the page, to consider the tactical nature of experiencing space, place and motion. Through consideration of an architectural detail, or by propelling the body into and through the landscape, through a plotting of journeys or suggestion of a new viewpoint, these works push and pull at our familiar relationships to location.

The gallery itself forms an integral material within the exhibition. Visitors will have a new encounter with ARTSPACE, experiencing a shift in perspective that both locates and transports them as viewers.

Alex Monteith
Looping manoeuvre at Taupo Racetrack with a Ducati 996 and
two CCTV cameras for dual-channel video installation, 28 Oct 2007
6 minutes looping dual projection, stereo sound
Photographer: Alex North

 
Kah Bee Chow & Finn Ferrier
For F & F, 2008
Sand, calcite
Photographer: Alex North

Past Exhibitions:

FRUIT CAKE SMOTHERED WITH ICING SUGAR

Tom Kreisler

10 November - 15 December 2007

Tom Kreisler
Installation view
Photographer: Alex North

Tom Kreisler
Installation view
Photographer: Alex North

Tom Kreisler
Flying from Hong Kong to Ireland, 1983, acrylic on canvas
The key (Coat III), 1970, acrylic and dye on canvas, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery collection
Photographer: Alex North

   Aalto Kreisler Grey (Custom Colour)

Tom Kreisler
Wholey kamoley, 1999-00, acrylic on board
No chair was strong enough for him, 2002, acrylic on canvas
Comma dot dogma, 1999, acrylic on canvas, private collection
Old and new, 1983, acrylic on canvas, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery collection
Under Guarantee 1983, 1989, acrylic and enamel on board
Sig. nature denture, 2002, acrylic on canvas
Photographer: Alex North

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