The following text is taken from the invitation to the opening of Crossing the Line, a group show I am exhibiting in curated by Pauline Autet, at The Engine Room 29 May - 19 June 2015.
“Line and drawing are the formal elements central to the work of the artists in Crossing the Line, whether laid on paper, walls or in solid form. This minimal and some would say modernist proposition echoes the artists’ shared spatial awareness and an interest in reflective and responsive processes. Memories and experiences of their time as Massey students inform the interventions in the exhibition, allowing us a glimpse into the ‘engine’ of the future and introducing the gallery space as a single part of a larger institution.
The artists work in response to the spatial features of the Engine Room; walls, angles, doors, and by manifesting its physical structure reveal links to the wider institutional and educational framework from which they emerge. The works are intended to be seen in the context of the University and in connection with the other disciplines, people and spaces to which they are intertwined, deviating from the modernist comfort of a self-contained and restrained gallery.”
— Curator, Pauline Autet