Home affairs
Carry me home
monoprints + kete
Kete made by Colleen Jamieson - rocks from Waitaha (Canterbury, NZ)
monoprints + kete
Kete made by Colleen Jamieson - rocks from Waitaha (Canterbury, NZ)
25 October - 1 December 2019
Manly Art Gallery.
West Esplanade, Manly, 2095, NSW.
This exhibition features new works by 38 artists. The curatorial inspiration for these works has been taken from a single theme, ‘home affairs’.
… home, homeland, homeless, home affairs, homing, home-grown, home owner, home-made, homewards …
Artists explore the concept of home as; a place, an idea, a possibility, a refuge, a presence, a contested space, somewhere to escape to or from, a memory.
When contemplating the concept of ‘home’ my thoughts drifted to the rolling paddocks, braided rivers and the enveloping mountainous regions of the Waitaha (Canterbury) region of Aotearoa (NZ). Carry me home depicts the kete, a traditional Maori basket. Through the series a fragmentation and manipulation of object can be observed. A loss of tradition perhaps, but what is the replacement? Can modern substitutes weather the storms, or is the natural order to return to which is cultural? The work may be viewed as a comment of social habits. The fracturing of one's own relationship to custom through migration.
Beneath the 9 monotypes is a Kete. Overflowing with stones from the three braided rivers of the Waitaha (Canterbury) region, from which I hail. Anchoring the works to the spirits of the land (whenua).
Manly Art Gallery.
West Esplanade, Manly, 2095, NSW.
This exhibition features new works by 38 artists. The curatorial inspiration for these works has been taken from a single theme, ‘home affairs’.
… home, homeland, homeless, home affairs, homing, home-grown, home owner, home-made, homewards …
Artists explore the concept of home as; a place, an idea, a possibility, a refuge, a presence, a contested space, somewhere to escape to or from, a memory.
When contemplating the concept of ‘home’ my thoughts drifted to the rolling paddocks, braided rivers and the enveloping mountainous regions of the Waitaha (Canterbury) region of Aotearoa (NZ). Carry me home depicts the kete, a traditional Maori basket. Through the series a fragmentation and manipulation of object can be observed. A loss of tradition perhaps, but what is the replacement? Can modern substitutes weather the storms, or is the natural order to return to which is cultural? The work may be viewed as a comment of social habits. The fracturing of one's own relationship to custom through migration.
Beneath the 9 monotypes is a Kete. Overflowing with stones from the three braided rivers of the Waitaha (Canterbury) region, from which I hail. Anchoring the works to the spirits of the land (whenua).