SUMMER: Utopia into Dystopia
01 Dec — 17 Mar 13
Curated by Claire Ulenberg
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Lang Ea
Target
Polystyrene with concrete base
White polystyrene with concrete base – 16 sculptures in totalIs New Zealand a Utopia place? most of us cannot imagine our country being a target, a...
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Nick Coldicutt
It hurts to Lye (once and twice); Untitled #1, #2, #3
recycled rimu; polyester
“I find that sculpting is a great way to document how all these different elements are or have effected me and others in the past and present.”
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Lisa Radford and Sam George
Google Flag
Fabric, flag pole
The flag flying over the quarry is printed with the words from many emails sent between Sam and Lisa during the development of a previous project, ...
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Mark Graver
Forty four sounds; Impression
Magnetic text panels; HD video
Please follow the linkForty Four Sounds is a text based, sound collage, film work. The text was arrived at througha random selection of previously ...
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Sam Hamilton
Three Trees Dress up for Halloween; Can't see the Forest for the Guitar
White sheets; electric guitar
Electric GuitarA memorial song sculpture for the tropical hardwood species Swietenia spp and Dalbergia Nigra and all those others who suffer our sh...
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Gaye Jurisich
Sway; Ladder
Cord; flax and no 8 wire
Sway is suspended above the lake creating a fragile, open, bridge like structure across the water. It reflects subtly on the water below. The wind ...
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Andy MacV
Just another morning song
Resin, bird cage
The phrase 'living like a canary in a coal mine' serves as a metaphor for future concerns, as miners used to take a caged canary with them down min...
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Charles Ninow
Municipal Bonds
Electroplated steel
Municipal Bonds uses the language of hard wearing public architecture to promote a discussion about shared space.
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Sacha Nunn
Fukushima in an Ocean of Complacency
Recycled materials, fishing equipment, nylon rope, rubber and plastic floats, steel frame
Recycled materials, fishing equipment nylon rope, rubber and plastic floats, galvanized steel frame Our lives are entwined currents on the Pacifi...
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Charlotte Parallel
Plastipedia
found objects, lots of tinfoil
Plastipedia is a work of accumulated floating plastic islands. It is a direct reference to the plastic trash islands known as the Great Pacific Gar...
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Jo Pervan
Faces
Clay
"Faces" can be made on request, please enquire at [email protected] FacesClay BalanceHinuera Stone & stainless steel pinned H...
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Jo Pervan
Flow; balance; Hooked; Boat Bowl; Spiral Vessel
Hinuera Stone
A fascination with people, contrast, shadow and form is evident in the smooth simple lines Jo Pervan strives for. HookedHinuera Stone (+ wood &am...
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Lou Pendergrast-Mathieson and Aja Pendergrast
Birds of a feather
Crystal cast glass
Bird control techniques only work if the birds are interested. The plastic ‘dummy’ owls strategically placed in the trees of Hurstmere Road, Takapu...
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Jocelyn Pratt
Mangrove Ripples; Molten Passion
Maratoto andesite; Taupo scoria
Molten Passion is also seen as symbolic of the Heart of Stone. Sculpted out of volcanic stone that retains heat from the sun and challenges the int...
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Helen Reynolds
White Cloud/ Black Mist
Polystyrene, wood, assorted rubbish, fishing line
Utopia: unattainable (clouds in the sky, soft palaces of pillows) (new products in shiny packaging) Dystopia: brought to earth a cloud becomes mis...
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Donna Sarten
Attitudinal Change
Cell phones and cord
Currently 152,800 care and protection notifications are made to Child, Youth and Family, each year. 418 calls are made each day, and these service...
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The Band: Barak Yahav, Lilach Paul, Koro Puhipuhi
Harmony
Oamaru stone with copper inlay
This sculpture piece was created by THE BAND - a group of three artists: BarakYahav (Israel), Lilach Paul (Israel) and Koro Puhipuhi (Maori), throu...
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Elaine Barry Conway
Icy Beauty overturned
Inkjet print on pvc vinyl, stretched on timber frame
The world is in an increasingly dire situation with industry and deforestation adding to the melting of the diminishing icecaps. Our Antarctic safe...
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Billadonna
Billadonna's Wunderkammer
wire; earth pigment
No matter how tight you pack and label your little boxes, there is still space for magicand THE WORLD STILL DOESN’T MAKE MUCH MORE SENSE
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Phil Bonham
Twig
Clay, steel, epoxy
A small twig inspired the form of this sculpture. Twig feels an existential relationship to the pattern, textures, and forms of the hood...happily ...
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Stuart Bridson
Post industrial imaginary forest
metal, wood, rubber, car paint, wheels- all recycled
The vision of fields of cars, metal and plastic, leftovers from the industrial age, the once utopic dream. These massive forests of rusting steel b...
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Christine Cathie
Pohutukawa leaves
Cast glass
New botanical species are still being discovered – recently a giant variety of the pohutukawa tree (metrosideros excelsa magnus) was found near a g...
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Chris Charteris
Harmony and Chaos
Andesite
In this work the stone is treated as a canvas, using a diamond blade on an angle grinder as paint brush. The lines are spontaneous and quickly cut ...
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Leah Fraser Henderson
Tangata Whenua
Stainless steel
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Jan Gosling
State of Mind
Oamaru stone
Our State of mind is a fragile and beautiful thing which can be destroyed by our own failings – slowly disintegrating making something that has the...
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Brad Lay
Krakenflower
Steel, rope, resin
My work often starts with the ocean, as it is something that I find to be rich in material potential, and somewhat conceptually challenging. I find...
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Faith Tavernor
Fractured Reality; Spatial Dislocation
Mirrored and black acrylic
Fractured Reality and Spatial Dislocation are both created for viewerto explore and enjoy a spatially challenging visual adventure where movement, ...
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Robyn Webster
Out of the Past comes the Future
bronze wire, mono filament, fibre optic filament
From a small distance this work disappears due to its fineness; this embodies its demand for interaction of a personal nature. Behind the work are ...
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