Lucinda King

Twins Mixed media on canvas 1500cm x 1200cm each, unframed

A collaboration which began in 2011. Paintings are made directly from the surrounding studio environment, where rain and sea water, soil, tree bark among other found objects have all played a part in influencing the final outcome.

Twins has been an 8 year journey that finished the weekend before lockdown in March 2020. Original intentions for these paintings were to hold space while provoking discussions surrounding the false dichotomy between humans and nature.

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Pam McKinlay and Henry Greenslade

Farewell - Tasman Glacier (from the “Ice is Cool” series), 2019 hand woven fine wool khata (McKinlay), electronics (Greenslade)

The Ice is Cool series was woven during the Art+Water project 2019. The series focused on the cryosphere, the source of much of the world’s fresh water. The fine wool/silk scarves are created in homage to khata – white silk scarves traditionally associated with the Himalayan region. The woven symbols incorporated across the series of scarf designs were based on repetition of an ice crystal motif in the cubic form to remind us that every glacier begins with a fragile snowflake. Farewell - Tasman Glacier was a response to site visits to NZ’s receding glaciers. Shrinking glaciers reveal the current impacts of global warming amidst a sea of hard to grasp climate change projections of effects yet to materialise. Here we see “change is rapid if you are a glacier, even though they are slow if you live in the human lane” (Helen Mayer Harrison). For every 1KG of global carbon emissions there is 12KG global ice melt.