The Engine Room : Massey University, Wellington : 2015
Crossing the Line, 28 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.”
Crossing the Line is a group show curated by Pauline Autet at The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington. Other artists involved are Briana Jamieson, whose drawings of snippets of memory of being at art school float along the gallery walls like clouds, and Sophie Goodwin whose uniquely crafted adjustable drawing table will be occupied by her through out the show while she undertakes a series of geometric patterned drawings in the space and of the space.
My work draws attention to anomalies in the gallery architecture, highlighting faults otherwise overlooked and thereby critiquing the institution of the 'white cube' gallery. I attempt to raise general awareness of the world around us by making connections between finer details utilising buildings in the process due to their memory holding ability.