MARY-LOUISE BROWNE, ELLIOT COLLINS, ROGER MORTIMER, AIMEE-ROSE STEPHENSON WORDS WALKING
, 2 MARCH - 1 APRIL 2010
{Words Walking} explores the ongoing interest in language amongst New Zealand artists. From McCahon to Billy Apple and John Reynolds, words have loomed large on the landscape of New Zealand art - as Auckland art historian Francis Pound once wrote "Words come everywhere, before art, with art, in art and about art". In this exhibition four artists create works, using their own and found words, focusing attention on the visual image as a 'text' to be read.
[Mary-Louise Browne] works with elegant wit in a wide variety of media, from canvas to granite to neon, in both the public and gallery arenas. Last year, in addition to gallery shows, she produced a major public art work for St Patrick's Square in Auckland. Words have been a constant feature of her work and she continues to explore their visual representation both conceptually and materially. She is currently on an artist's residency in Taiwan.
[Elliot Collins] is a poetic painter who operates in what he describes as a "world of free associations", employing words to "visualise the stuff of thoughts" and explore the process of making meaning. He completed his Master of Arts and Design in 2007 and has exhibited steadily since then -in 2009 he had a popular solo show and was included in the exhibition of emerging painters at Christchurch Art Gallery.
[Roger Mortimer] is a painter who has frequently employed text as an element in his painting and in his personal lexicon of signs - his sources frequently derived from medieval texts and illuminated manuscripts point to the ancient association of word and image.
[Aimee-Rose Stephenson ]employs hand-stitched pithy texts to playfully explore the use of hair in art - her use of synthetic hair references traditional Maori beliefs about the tapu nature of the head and hair. Aimee-Rose has a Master of Maori Visual Arts.
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Just nine short words make up one long line, 2009 neon tubing, 180 x 7500 x 12 mm neon tubing |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Just a few small words, 1980-1990 aluminium, enamel paint, 55 x 1050 x 20 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Ten letters, 1990 Aluminium, enamel paint, 55x 550 x 20 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting depicts..., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting is planning its escape., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting must be thrown into the fire..., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting is the result of a series of inarticulate ramblings..., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting loves night flights over cities and motorways that lead to safe and familiar places., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting will outlive us all and its been lording it over me all afternoon., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting is about not being able to go back, only forwards...., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting tells a story..., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting wanders through the house..., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Elliot Collins This painting will be saved..., 2010 oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm |
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 | Roger Mortimer Mesne, 2009 acrylic on canvas, 505 x 1015mm |
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 | Roger Mortimer The Blue Lodge, 2009 acrylic on canvas, 708 x 506 mm |
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 | Aimee-Rose Stephenson Free flowing tresses, 2010 synthetic hair, cotton, plastic pipe, glass, 155 x 600 x 40mm |
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 | Aimee-Rose Stephenson Free flowing tresses - detail, 2010 synthetic hair, cotton, plastic pipe, glass, 155 x 600 x 40mm |
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 | Aimee-Rose Stephenson Wish you were hair, 2010 synthetic hair, cotton, plastic pipe, glass, 155 x 1000 x 40mm |
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 | Aimee-Rose Stephenson The plumage that amused me - detail, 2010 synthetic hair, cotton, plastic pipe, glass, 155 x 1000 x 40 mm |
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 | Aimee-Rose Stephenson Ode to lineage - detail, 2010 synthetic hair, cotton, plastic pipe, glass, 155 x 600 x 40mm |
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