15th August - 1st September
Gallery One: Catch
Becky Richards, Daegan Wells, Tyne Gordon, Felixe Laing, Jordan Davey-Emms, Greta van Oyen, Janie Bruce
Opening August 15th from 6pm.
A living body is more than matter. Muscles and bones, breath and heartbeat – all are animated by forces unseen. Chemical processes, the swooping rise of elation, the jagged-edged pressures of anxiety, the whine of electricity, the deep thrum of the earth.
What rhythms, what small processes might return us to our own limbs? How does one’s inner world shift, with the press of one body against another? And what uneasy content lurks beneath the polishing and modification of flesh?
Catch opens up the intangibilities of bodies; wrapping form around the invisible, the often unspoken. Featuring work from seven young New Zealand artists, covering diverse mediums, each seeking methods to catch, conquer, and celebrate that which can’t be grasped.
Image: Jordan Davey-Emms, 'Tower', hand built ceramic, 2019.
The Canning Room: Emma Hamilton - Arctic Eye
Opening August 15th from 6pm.
Emma Hamilton’s series of photographic objects ‘Arctic Eye’ was taken during daily walks while on residency in Iceland. She has captured these moments via a digital camera, shot through the viewfinder of an analogue camera. These photographs now exist as a slither of a printed image. Hamilton makes visible the space of the viewfinder, using it as a lens through which to view a winter morning. Here the blink of an eye becomes the opening and closing of the camera shutter, the light of the morning changes incrementally through the landscape.