Studio Monitor
Friday, September 16th, 2011The Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth December 2000 The polystyrene shell of an Apple monitor, wall-mounted and backlit.
South Pacific
Friday, January 29th, 2010Made in collaboration with radiologist Dr David Perry, South Pacific examines the links between sonar, radar and ultrasound; technologies for making images from non-visual sources. Playing with relations between the visual, aural and textual, the work explores how the Second World War changed the perception of oceanic space and the conflict’s legacy in the region. [...]
The Middle Landscape
Monday, September 7th, 2009Starkwhite, Auckland 7 September – 3 October 2009 The Middle Landscape’s aesthetic is theatrical, incorporating both landscape gardening and the brightly-coloured functionality of a sporting-goods store. Entering the space, sounds and flickering light emanate from tents pitched on the gallery floor, while drifts of pine bark soften the acoustics and give off an earthy smell. [...]
No More Gaps
Monday, October 6th, 2008Starkwhite 3 – 29 September 2007 No More Gaps is an orgy of rubbery filling-in, attempting to graft the smooth continuity of glossy, wipe-clean surfaces onto the scrappy leavings of previous decades. Blending silicone and mohair in a rubbery tribute to 70s fibre art and welding together sheepskin scraps in lurid, decades-old shades, these sculptures [...]
Second Child
Thursday, February 1st, 2007Second Child reframes technology’s ceaseless cycle of obsolescence as sibling rivalry. A video shows the slow unwrapping of a laptop. Over 11 painstaking minutes the artist carefully opens up her brand new MacBook Pro, picking the tape off the box, reading the instructions, extracting each piece of the machine from its polystyrene cradle. This unwrapping [...]
No Stairway
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006The video No Stairway is inspired by proto-feminist Charlotte Perkins-Gillman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, in which an increasingly psychotic invalid entwines herself in the art nouveau extravagances of her sickroom wallpaper. The video’s soothing computerised voice-over is adapted from French poet Henri Michaux’s book The Miserable Miracle. In the late 1950s Michaux experimented with [...]
End User
Friday, August 29th, 2003Room 103, Auckland Calder and Lawson Gallery, Hamilton 2003 End User explores the use of New Zealand landscape as a generic picturesque. Made during the creation of films such as The Lord of the Rings and The Last Samurai, where Mount Taranaki was digitally altered to become Mount Fuji, the work examines the role of [...]
Theme for Great Cities
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003Ramp Gallery, Hamilton 4 – 27 June, 2003 Theme for Great Cities explores urbanism, imagining the city as social packaging. Technological detritus gets blown up to environmental scale. A gravelly computer voice emanates from a shack built from computer boxes. Composite images fold around the walls like high-concept wallpaper.
Another Green World
Thursday, February 14th, 2002Artspace Sydney 14 February – 2 March 2002 Stella Brennan interviewed by Sophie O’Brien What is the connection between the two projections in the main gallery, the polystyrene video and the Dymaxion animation? A while ago I was putting together images for a website, scanning old photographs of works and installations. Of photographs I [...]
Dell
Wednesday, May 30th, 2001Lightbox, Auckland May 30 – June 9, 2001 A vertebral stack of polystyrene packing stands by the entrance, flanked by a blue stripe of x-ray films. A nest of bubble wrap, insulating foil, fluorescent light, sequins and blue-banded packing tape fills a niche. In the back part of the gallery a chalky wall drawing is [...]