Our exhibition was in Artsdiary!

And I had no idea until now. Fantastic!

http://www.artsdiary.co.nz/70/1867.html

Images from 'Food?' exhibition

Full list of works here.

Gummo IV

‘SCULPTURE IS EVERYTHING’ ... AT GOMA

When I visited Brisbane in the summer I loved this kinetic sculpture by Lara Favaretto: 'Gummo IV'. It keeps popping into my mind lately.

Food? exhibition

Jane and I proposed a group exhibition based on ideas around food.
The result was an exhibition this past week in Projectspace. We're all thrilled at how it went. The opening night was a hit, and the feedback during the week has been fantastic.

Attached is the list of works, and images

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Food?                                                                                    Projectspace Gallery, 21-25 July 2015

Levi Brinsdon-Hall

Bought to you by Farro Fresh

fruit and vegetables. wooden bowl

Every night the show is running for, the artist will go and collect fruit and vegetables that Farro Fresh supermarket has thrown into their bins and will add them to this fruit bowl. 

Participants are invited to take whatever food they may want from this bowl and the following morning it will be replenished by the artist.

*Food has been washed in hot soapy water and then rinsed and dried with a clean towel. All food was thrown out in a fresh produce bag and therefore hasn’t been contaminated with meat or dairy, only other fruits and veg.

Emma Glučina

Golden mornings

coloured glass. plastic. margarine. 

I am interested in the routine of the everyday, where the body has marked an object in passing. Casting has become a tool in which allows me to record these impacts of the body on domesticated objects. By casting an object you ensure that the form will forever continue to exist, therefore all fleeting traces and imprints are caught in time or in a moment, capturing the memory of its mould. I find that this impermanence is fitting, especially in the case for something like food, as it eventually gets eaten, melts, or rots away. Casting for me has been a way of obtaining something that we naturally could not.

Jane Lehtinen

Implanted

headphones. mp3 player. sound piece, spoken by Gene Siewing

Nick Pound

Untitled

blackboard. paper. pins.

Dominique Nicolau (nico)

Survival Tabs/ Survival Blanket.

paper. golden survival/space blanket. flesh coloured gaffer.

I am not advocating Survival Tabs as a survival food replacement. They consist of mostly malt and

milk. There are better alternatives.

Polycaprolactone Balls.

sound.

Soylent.

company promotional video.

Twentythird 23 Evolution.

the ultimate meal replacement. glass dome vitrine. spray paint. golden survival/space blanket.

iHerb.com packaging. flesh coloured gaffer.

Manifest Destiny

plastic. dirty water. wax.

The people on board the Star-Arc did not eat food as we know it. They swallowed synthetic food tabs 6 times a day that contained all the nutrients their bodies needed. As well as a chewing gum to mimic the necessary masticating benefits of chewing food. They also daily swallow a synthetic fibre substance device made predominantly of self-lubricating Polycaprolactone in the form of a small ball, to massage the internal gastoentalogical systems. This is excreted daily, sanitised, re-filled with synthetic fibre and re-used. The socialisation of meal time was no longer an activity that Homosapians henceforth partook of. All the people on board were lean and toned.

Adapting to the food tabs was difficult for the 1st Generation. They all understood the necessity but they missed nothing as much as the missed the comfort of the sustenance of Earth food.

Ollie Roake and Jacqui Margetts

Conversation table

pallet wood. found chrome frame. modified to house conversation box.

Alison Sydenham

Publication editor, food?

140 pages. edition of 10.

Anything to declare?

screen print on cotton. (grocery bag)

Decisions

MDF. acrylic. (dominoes)

Bites

screen print on ply. metal. (rodent traps)

Caution: traps are set.

Ruby Chang-Jet White

Cockfight

bowl set (left, by artist) : slip clay, hand-painted. kauri chopsticks.

bowl set (right, by machines) : clay, machine printed. pine chopsticks.

Barbara Tuck II

Some more by Barbara Tuck… [website]

I'm really enjoying this 'flattened landscape' thing - it seems a really successful way of portraying the quality of interconnectedness, which I'm interested in.

Barbara Tuck: Orients and Mortals

Barbara Tuck: 'Orients and Mortals'

A recent exhibition at Anna Miles Gallery. The curator was fine with me taking snapshots of the paintings I liked (i.e. all of them...):

Barbara Tuck has been at work on paintings indebted to specific ecologies for the past decade. Each year she has made autumnal trips to wild places before returning to the studio to distill her experiences. Over this period she has partaken of a geological and vegetative feast. Previous paintings have referred to single locations only, but in Orients and Mortals, Tuck has given herself license to riffle across the full variety of geographies she has immersed herself in to date.

Notes:

-Patchwork / collage aesthetic

-Illustrative, representational images meshed with patterns, abstraction, colour fields. Like a wide painterly vocabulary.

-Colour palette - consistent across the suite of works

-Size of canvas, amount of detail - also consistent

-Composition - organic? Balanced but doesn't looked 'planned'

Peter Coffin

Jon Bywater emailed me a promo of Peter Coffin's latest exhibition in London. 'Fjord bank glyphs quiz vest Cwm.' What a coincidence!

A preview of the video:

It often happens as an art maker that you hit on an awesome idea, and then find out that actually someone has already done it, and they've done it a lot better than you. 

It's okay when that happens, if you look at it the right way. Looking at other artists whose work is similar to yours gives you an idea of context, and it pushes you even further to find some uncharted territory that you might call your own.

Anyway. Some of Peter Coffin's other works that I find interesting…

Scratch and sniff Arcimboldo

Screen printing - the colour blending technique mentioned earlier

Greenhouse music for plants

Colour Clouds

Hand sculpture made from recycled wood

Hanging plant 2011

Japanese garden