TheDreamWeavers Trish Campbell
Mark Cross
Lorie Dugardyn
Grant Hanna
Niki Hill Gareth Price Brent Wong
Alvin Xiong
8th May - 14th June pierre peeters gallery 251 PARNELL ROAD HABITAT COURTYARD PARNELL +64 9 3774832 WWW.PIERREPEETERSGALLERY.COM
The Dream Weavers Entwining the qualities of dreams and reality, fact and fiction, the expected and the unexpected, embodies The Dream Weavers. These works are poignant in their depiction that things may not always be what they seem. Presenting a mix of Symbolist, photographic, Surrealist and contemporary works this exhibition weaves the elements of suggestion and endless possibility into life as we might not know it. Grant Hanna’s work is a bizarre representation of the familiar, reminiscent of dreams and metamorphosis. Like other Surrealists, Hanna juxtaposes objects and images in irrational way and employs his realistic representation to heighten the incongruities in his work to surprise, confuse and bewilder. The unfamiliar qualities of the familiar are what Lorie Dugardyn also explores in her practice. Her work depicts the evocativeness of Auckland’s urban landscape. Full of imagination, buildings get new almost biomorphic shapes, denying their usual monolithic qualities. People are transformed, roadworks become patterns and city life becomes dreamy, diffused realities. The striking and inexplicable scenes of Brent Wong, like Dugardyn’s works cast our familiar New Zealand landscape into a strange and new realization. Against clear, blue Wellington skies, curious formations of clouds are carriers of emotional and psychic states, which loom over eerie, completely isolated coastlines displacing our sense of earthliness. Niki Hill’s photographs are a visceral and aestheticized symphony for our senses. Textures and objects, which are unusual and at times grotesque, destabilize what are otherwise frozen, perfect vanitas (still life). These tableaux provoke conversations of beauty and the sublime, and pose the question, “How would you like your tea?” in a playful and curious manner. Quantum physics, Freud and the artist’s own brand of ‘magical realism’ is what typifies Gareth Price’s works. Hyper-real and unreal simultaneously – familiar motifs are placed in unfamiliar surrounds which all play a role in Price’s immaculate, painstaking visions. Adapting Man Ray’s surrealistic ‘space writing’ technique Alvin Xiong uses the photograph as the m edium to capture his ‘painting’ with light. For Xiong, these photographs are an act of liberation, where the unconscious and impulsive allow for representation of the spontaneous, automatic and subconscious. Mark Cross’s works capture the world in a way which encourages the viewer to dream. Bringing together the hand of the artist with the natural world in which it exists he blurs the boundaries between the creative process and the artistic outcome. In the inclusion of sculptural elements, Trish Campbell’s work also suggests unknown possibilities. The transformation of the familiar into an experience for the viewer which transcends their expectations uses object and shadow in ways which offers a new experience.
1.
Lorie Dugardyn
Méditation sur ´évolution
photographic print on acrylic
840 x 1120 mm
2.
Brent Wong
Turnstile
acrylic on canvas
685 x 913 mm, 1975
3.
Trish Campbell
Bed - Head
repurposed bead-head, 15mm clear acrylic
1520 x 1520 mm
4.
Grant Hanna
Memories like Reflections are
Mercurial and Lack Substance
acrylic on canvas
1024 x 270 mm
5.
Alvin Xiong
Impression
C Type Photograph
520 x 790 mm (image), ed 2/5
6.
Gareth Price
The Pillar of Light
acrylic on canvas
600 x 900 mm
7.
Alvin Xiong
Where did you sleep last night?
C Type Photograph
830 x 580 mm, ed 1/3
8.
Niki Hill
Afternoon Tea in Honeycomb
C Type Photography
720 x 500 x 35 mm. ed 1/3
9.
Gareth Price
Holy fire gathers during a baptism at the
Blenheim Salt Works
acrylic on canvas
1010 x 760 mm
10.
Mark Cross
Schism
Oil on canvas
1010 x 2030 mm
11.
Niki Hill
Afternoon Tea in Fur
Transparency in light box
841 x 596 x 75 mm, ed 2/3
12.
Alvin Xiong
Moonlight Waltz
LED electrical components, custom glass and wood
1115 x 760 mm
13.
Niki Hill
Cinderella’s Pumpkin Tea
Transparency in light box
1219 x 609 x 75 mm, ed 1/3
14.
Lorie Dugardyn
un homage a Gaudi
photographic print on acrylic
1120 x 840 mm, edition of 8
15.
Brent Wong
Botanical Evolution
watercolour on paper
371 x 520 mm, 1965
16.
Mark Cross
The Language of Moths
Video taken in Niue, August 2011
Music (with permission), Déja, Comme des Trous de Vent, Comme Reproduit, from the 2004 album
“Telegraphs in Negative: Mouths Trapped in Static” by Set Fire to Flames.
The Dream Weavers 8th May – 14th June 2015 Trish Campbell // Mark Cross // Lorie Dugardyn // Grant Hanna // Niki Hill // Gareth Price // Brent Wong // Alvin Xiong 1. Lorie Dugardyn
Méditation sur ´évolution
2. Brent Wong
photographic print on acrylic
840 x 1120 mm
$1,850
Turnstile
acrylic on canvas 685 x 913 mm POA 3. Trish Campbell
Bed - Head
4. Grant Hanna
repurposed bed-head, 15mm clear acrylic
1520 x 1520 mm
$1,850
Memories like Reflections are Mercurial and Lack Substance
acrylic on canvas 1040 x 270 mm $7,500 5. Alvin Xiong
Impression
6. Gareth Price
C Type photograph 520 x 790 mm (image), ed. 2/5
$1,650
The Pillar of Light
acrylic on canvas 600 x 900 mm $9,250 7. Alvin Xiong
Where did you sleep last night?
C Type Photography 720 x 500 x 35mm, ed 1/3 8. Niki Hill
$1,760
Afternoon Tea in Honeycomb
C Type photograph 830 x 580 mm, ed.1/3 $1,750
9. Gareth Price
Holy fire gathers during a baptism at the Blenheim Salt works
acrylic on canvas 10. Mark Cross
Oil on Canvas
Transparency in light box
Moonlight Waltz
LED electrical components, custom glass + wood
Niki Hill
$45,000
841 x 596 x 75 mm, ed 2/3
12. Alvin Xiong
13.
1010 x 2030 mm
Afternoon Tea in Fur
$10,750
Schism
11. Niki Hill
1010 x 760mm
$4,200
1115 x 760 mm
$3,609
1219 x 609 x 75mm, (ed.1/3)
$5,500
Cinderella’s Pumpkin Tea
Transparency in light box
14. Lorie Dugardyn Un homage a Gaudi photographic print on acrylic, edition of 8 15. Brent Wong
$1,650
Botanical Evolution
16. Mark Cross
1120 x 840 mm. ed of 8
watercolour on paper
Language of Moths
371 x 520mm
POA
Video taken in Niue, August 2011
Music (with permission), Déja, Comme des Trous de Vent, Comme Reproduit, from the 2004
album “Telegraphs in Negative: Mouths Trapped in Static” by Set Fire to Flames.
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