This all-female group show stems from the artists’ desire to emphasise the presence of female makers within the Dunedin art scene. In a gallery whose exhibitions have inadvertently, but predominantly, entertained male artists, this group collectively respond to (or collectively respond through) their femininity. From Sinclair’s reliably picturesque landscape painting to mi$$match’s pink explosion of …
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Group Show Opening 19/7/12 Bekah Carran, Anya Sinclair, mi$$match and Willow McIsaac at 5:30pm 393 Princes Street Dunedin New Zealand agallerypresents.wordpress.com
It is near impossible to stand unmoved by A Gallery’s current exhibition. Perth-based artist Justin Spiers is a photographer with the capacity to translate intellectual conceptions into visual metaphors with rare fluency. The subject-matter of his collection is animals in captivity and the discussion is the space between the viewer and the viewed. The photographs …
An exhibition of seemingly conventional, uniform landscape paintings is an unexpected site at A Gallery. However, the ideas behind the work of Alexandra Kennedy easily explain the place of New Voids here. Kennedy spent nine months hunting through secondhand shops and garage sales for old paintings. One is a still life – the only hint is …
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The polished floorboards of A Gallery are competing with the working matter of Dunedin-raised artist Philip James Frost. Rather than exhibiting paintings, Frost is displaying the guts of his studio, causing that age-old question regarding what makes art “art” to be vanquished by the cohesion of process and product. Books, drawings, magazines, paintings, a palette …
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