Thomas Lord and Blair Thomson

Harbourside Acrylic on canvas

I have been exploring connections between neo-liberalism and the climate crisis. Harbourside follows ‘Corporate Box’ and ‘The Ascension of the Bankers’.

Naomi Klein’s evocative writing gave me reason to extend the metaphor further, turning the Golden Calf into an inhabited carcass on the Otago Harbourside. “Climate change demands that we invest in the publicly owned bones of our societies, made brittle by decades of neglect.” [ N. Klein. This Changes Everything.]

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Jenna Packer

Riders Acrylic on canvas

Things that keep me awake are starting points for working in the [painting] dream-state. This work comes from watching spaghetti westerns, reading Sci-Fi and thinking about the end of the oil-dependent world, as we know it.

Real life predictions co-exist with possible - and impossible - scenarios, and I can step back after the making and, like retrieving a dream, make sense of some of it.