In “Not afraid”, Simon Attwooll presents a series of bright, energetic pieces on paper. His mixed media works, created from the cultural ephemera of newspaper, magazine, and internet images, are intended, in the artist’s words, to “encourage us to explore our current contemporary psyche through [ … ] the reproduced images it consumes and is …
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Kluster****. Sam Ovens, Nathan Forbes and Ant Scarer. Hope, comfort, and censorship; just three ideas that Ovens, Forbes and Scarer willingly stomp upon. This is commendable, however, since these astute Dunedin artists demonstrate insight and wit rather than prosaic discontent disguised as rebellion. Ovens uses the pop aesthetic to express socio-political commentaries. The audacious, commercial …
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“To be a good painter, you have to be a bit stupid” -Salvador Dali The act of painting; It’s like creating a flame by rubbing two sticks together. The discipline isn’t always efficient. It’s messy, materially and conceptually, but the process is spiritual and the resolution, magic. Passionate and romantic, the small colourful works …
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