Black and White is a series of original Photograms by Imposter Photography.
Photograms, light, matter, photographic paper. And some creative commons images from NASA ;)
Thanks NASA.
Imposter Photography / Miranda Voke
Deadlock:
Built off existing cast glass, photography, found objects and photogram work,
Deadlock is digitally combined and transformed into bold abstract images,
This work is part of an ongoing multimedia project exploring the fragility of
the mind when exposed to traumatic experiences.
Deadlock embodies the emotions of hate, despair grief and helplessness,
how through pain we inflict pain, blindly forming cycles of abuse and
transforming into the monsters that hurt us.
The key, acquired from an infamous and abandoned mental institute in
Goulburn Australia, represents the hidden strength inside to unlock and
transform our painful experiences into healing and growth.
Nova:
A multimedia work meshing electronic music, sound design and audio
manipulation. Combined with a multi-faceted visually psychedelic projection
and static visual art.
"Inspired by travels with friends. It started as an idea to articulate this mantra
we have: to follow our passions. We had been discussing how all-consuming
work, social and cultural norms set us up with feelings of self-doubt,
neurosis, and for many, deep feelings of depression and anxiety."
Using sampled audio of these conversations I formed a narrative, a thread of
individual experience and perspective that articulates the innate urge inside
us to create and explore within our world."
Bio:
Serpent Dream is the moniker of multimedia artist James Costin.
His work consists of electro-acoustic music and introspective soundscapes.
His music is accompanied by visual art, this medium takes the same path as
the music in which elements are borrowed and transformed into new forms
that embody his personal experience in life.
"Music and art are direct connections to the more abstract part of my being,
a bridge to that raw humanness that lies behind all concept and logic"
www.serpentdream.com - @serpent.dream
Anthropology –
The science dealing with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological
characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
Artists Bio
V is a multi disciplinary creative, specialising in digital and large scale surrealist imagery.
Published in VICE in 2018, her work largely discusses the construction of identity and how society impacts that. Often touching on subjects around mental health and the connectedness of human beings.
Her works seeks to act as an anthropological study of humankind through imagery.
"Art has an amazing ability to convey a message across cultures, race, social economic groups... it speaks without words and unites like nothing else can"
V has worked with the New Zealand Police and other organisations such as Woman's Refuge, presenting on education around Mental Health Awareness and Family Harm Reduction.
The last year has seen her speak at Pecha Kucha, whilst also working with multiple councils painting murals and teaching a course at Hastings Girls High School. She was a featured artist in the Auckland Festival of Photography, painted the festival circuit, and has showcased her work nationally at places such as Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne.
“I’m an explorer. Propelled by the belief that the more we understand ourselves, the more we understand the world around us.
I see the world is built up by an ongoing chain of often discreet and abstract events and I delight to explore the inner and outer worlds of our very own human existence and work out what is happening.
By exploring science, psychology, poetry, music and art, I use my skills in photography, writing, poetry and music to weave this information and the coincidences around me together.”
Kelly grew up in the north of the UK. In particular Manchester. She mostly disappointed her mother when she proclaimed she wanted to be a starving artist from a very young age.
She has a BA (hons) degree in photography, wrote her dissertation on Truth, Representation and Propaganda in Photography, and was a professional photographer for 13 years.
Desiring to step away from a commercial use of her photography skills, and because its preferable not to be starving, she now works as a Studio and Events Manager for the amazing web design agency and community of Springload.
She is also a member of the Wellington based band Strange Things.
HIS NAME WAS/IS THE THUNDERBOLT
For this solo exhibition Mumu Moore has created 28 purerehua and porotiti (Taonga Pūoro, Māori instruments) during the maraMATAKA Starting on whiro the new moon and running past Rakaunui the full moon and back down the shadows to whiro the new moon.
Alongside this mumu created the painted art piece this exhibition was named after “His name was/is the thunderbolt. working with similar shapes and patterns found on the taonga around the room, mumu expresses the connection between thunderbolt and papa the earth mother, always working together to create a place the holds all beings found between the earthmother and skyfather.
Mumu creates this taonga with love, adoration, mauri, and sits with the energy of each moon phase, each taonga is named aftetr the coresponding moon phase.
Pūrerehua - is an instrument used for karakia (prayer, incantations), to connect from Papatūānuku (earth mother) to the Ngā Atua (many gods) that live/reside above the earth. They can be used to invoke rain, and for spiritual practices. They can be worn on the body as a pendant.
Porotiti - is a smaller instrument that is used for Rongoā Māori (Māori healing), its is played with two hands, and spins on itself to create a humming noise. which vibrates through the cord to help with arthritis and also used to release the sinus’s and ease pain in the body. They can be worn on the body as pendant.
Ko Mauo te Maunga, ko Tauranga te Moana, ko Ngai Tukairangi te Hapu, ko Te Rangihouhiri te Rangatira, ko Ngai te Rangi te Iwi, ko Mumu Moore ahau.
Mumu Moore is a Wellington artist and film maker. He uses storytelling and cultural practice to create dynamic and emotional films, and artworks that help him to connect to his whakapapa, his way of living, and his higher connection to the atua (gods) that surround us all.
Mumu works within the digital world, combining his love of film, photography and video editing to make poetic films. While also working with rakau (wood) to create Taonga Pūoro (maori musical instruments) mainly pūrerehua (bull roarers).
His passion for storytelling comes from the connections he makes in the community where he lives, works, and plays. Mumu believes that the world needs more stories to help balance the material and spiritual worlds.
This balance will bring about positive social, environmental, physical, and spiritual change in the communities we live in.
My name is Liam aka Nacho McCartan. Nacho because its my favourite food (I only eat a singular chip), and Liam because my mother was a massive fan of Liam Neilsen who is rumoured to be my real father.
I would describe myself as an award winning breakdancer, erotic novelist and pop art enthusiast.
When I am not water skiing in Monte Carlo, or sky diving sans pants, I can be found drawing tasteless nudes and cartoon characters. I am particularly drawn to the cartoons of yesteryear, which were equal parts gratuitous violence and comedy. Where the antagonist never won, and there was a very clear line of who was inherently good and who was bad (you know it sha’more).
Also the colour and style of these cartoons belong to a certain era. An era where aggression was seamlessly infused with comedy, and marinated in a rich gravy of technicolour. These days cartoons are mostly focused on banal activities like dogs who can put out fires, and pigs that can fly helicopters, there is nothing remotely offensive in them. They are a PC wet dream, they are also incredibly yawn inducing.
No more being blown up with dynamite or tied to train tracks, being kicked in the face or being poisoned. Not like the good old days. These drawings are a shout out to the characters I loved, who made me laugh and hold my breath in suspense. Those characters I also routinely masturbated too.
Please enjoy these works, because I would like to retire after this exhibition and return to my golden shack in the woods where I can go back to blowing up innocent wildlife, wrestling bears and fishing topless like Vladimir Putin.
A portion of each sale will be donated to the “Liam Neilson Pie Museum” a cause I am dedicated too.
Greg from Retro Art loves recycling and upcycling. He is into art and mid-century design. Having spent so many years in the corporate world, it was time for a complete change and unleash his creative side. Greg lives in Hataitai and loves Wellington’s creative vibe.
Having seen so many good picture frames going to landfill or being discarded, just because the art was fading or ugly, Greg saw an opportunity to restore and add colourful art to rejuvinate them. Matching period pictures, original or adapted art to the reconditioned frames, he uses the old frame as much as possible along with new nails, fastenings, backings and tape. The result is a bright, modern piece of art that suits many decors from mid-century to modern.
Taxidermy and photography both exist as a state of preservation of the subject, denying organic decay in a disjointed modernity, a concept that Ben Klocek and Antoinette Ratcliffe emulate in their show Cellar Door.
Crepuscular and discarded, the specimens in their photographs take on new flesh in composition, and in their sentience.
Antoinette’s practice explores the anthropomorphic through her use of a variety of media, including her own taxidermy, where the animals find themselves in relationships created out of circumstance. This photographic series examines the chronotope allegory between taxidermy and the captured image.
Exploring the connection between the physical and the subconscious, Ben constructs situational realities between taxidermy, found spaces and objects. In his use of vibrant and sometimes conflicting colour palettes, Ben creates limbic resonance between the subject, the artist and the viewer.
Mitzi Henderson creates epic, colourful collages by hand and in powerpoint. Displaying epic scenes and battles often involving strange combinations of characters and almost always involving lazer beams, Mitzi’s work is light-hearted, bizarre and full of absurdist other- worldly comic dream-scapes.
‘Frames of Mind is one part of an ongoing investigation into the feelings surrounding experiences of sexual abuse.
Glass magnolia blossoms are used to sketch ideas of a purity that’s been interrupted by sexual assault, as well as a seething rage that blooms from continued and repetitive experiences of trauma.
Each series explores a different way of dispersing these emotions, whether it be through transforming symbolic objects through shattering acts of violence, letting the feelings consume themselves, or allowing them to dissipate to a place where they might create something more beautiful. ‘
Artist Bio:
Dirt Child Design is a bespoke glass studio owned and operated by Kelda Morris, an internationally award-winning glass artist.
A born and bred Wellingtonian, she spent seven years living and studying in Canberra, Australia, where she fell in love with the landscape whilst working towards her BA(Hons) at the Australian National University. Currently she spends most of her time casting glass, designing jewellery, and teaching in her private studio at Nautilus Creative Space, an artist-led not-for-profit community in an old mechanic’s shed on the wild South Coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
“Glass is a tool with which I capture and sculpt light.
I am particularly curious about the relationships between the natural world and our sense of belonging and identity, as well as the reflective nature of the pathways of landscape and the pathways of our minds. “
“Wellington has a fantastic coffee culture. I enjoy sitting in coffee shops, where I can draw and observe people passing by. These are great places to relax, meet friends, and connect with others. For me, this is where my stories begin.”
About:
Hi, I’m Mary! I was born and raised in China and moved to Wellington, New Zealand 7 years ago. I’ve been working in the game and animation industry for over a decade. I’m currently working in animation for children’s television as a visual development artist. In my spare time, I work on various illustration and graphic novel projects.
When I'm lost in train station mazes, I lose not only where I'm going and how to get there but a little of myself. This exhibition showcases ink on paper and tape on wall is inspired by:
Cuadrados y ángulos
By Alfonsina Storni
Casas enfiladas, casas enfiladas,
casas enfiladas.
Cuadrados, cuadrados, cuadrados.
Casas enfiladas.
Las gentes ya tienen el alma cuadrada,
ideas enfila
y ángulo en la espalda.
Yo misma he vertido ayer una lágrima,
Dios mio, cuadrada.
Squares and angles
Translated by Willis Knapp Jones
Houses in a line, in a line,
in a line there.
Squares, squares, squares.
Houses in a line.
Even people now have square souls,
Ideas in file, I declare,
And on their shoulders, angles wear.
Just yesterday I shed a tear and it
Oh, God, was square!
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New space age painting exhibition by Adam Neverman.
On a sizemic scale you can almost jump into these moons. Acrylics and mixed media.
ONE is the Māori word for soil/mud/earth. The place where life when touched by wai (water) is created.
For this solo exhibition Mumu (Will) Moore has created 28 purerehua and porotiti (Taonga Pūoro, Māori instruments).
Purerehua - is an instrument used for karakia (prayer, incantations), to connect from Papatūānuku (earth mother) to the Ngā Atua (many gods) that live/reside above the earth. They can be used to invoke rain, for spiritual practices. They can be worn on the body as a pendant.
Porotiti - is a smaller instrument that is used for Rongoā Māori (Māori healing), its is played with two hands, and spins on itself to create a humming noise which vibrates through the cord to help with arthritis and also used to release the sinus’s and ease pain in the body. They can be worn on the body as pendant.
The theme for this solo exhibition comes from the idea of the creation of life forms, in this case Mumu is working with rakau (trees), or more so the timber from these native Aotearoa (NZ) giants. The timber has been (koha) gifted by Todd O’Hagen from “fox and timber” a timber recycler here in Wellington, then shaped, sanded, carved and painted. The mauri of the maker (Mumu), the location where it is carved, and the rakau (timber) itself combine to create a unique mauri that is infused into the instrument.
In this collection 28 pieces are being created throughout Matariki (Māori new years) with 4 elements and 7 per element. The four elements are Wai (water), One (earth), Āngi (air), Ahi (fire).
Each element has 7 children. The children are created in locations around Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington), and then given the Māori name for each location.
I have been lucky enough to get my guidance on the original Māori place names for Wellington from my good friend Ben Ngaia.
Purerehua and Porotiti range in prices from $160 - $350 depending on type of rakau (wood) and time to make each one.
This exhibition is a black and white collection of experimental analogue street and portrait photography in Wellington.
Boxmonks Photography has been captured on medium format, 35mm film and DSLR. All hand processed in a darkroom. Some of his images have been put through chemical abrasion, wire brushing, solarisation and reprinted with collodian up to 12 times to leave photograph that often reflects an honest personality of the subject.
Don't miss this unique photography exhibition! Opens Thursday 7th June 6-9pm.
Jade Weaver is a Wellington based Artist. Her work is inspired by the colourful imagination of nature and presents female characters in vivid dreamscapes.
Often borrowing subjects from the pages of high fashion magazines she seeks to remove the highly stylised visual reproductions of the female form from the glossy pages and relocate them into fabricated natural environments. Giving them a world to inhabit, a name, and exploring the relationship between the female body, spirit and nature.
The divisions merge so that the subject becomes the landscape and the landscape the subject.
Jade has worked within the fashion industry for the past 20 years in varying roles and has a Bachelor of Design from Massey University.
Contact
www.jadeweaver.com
jade.weaver@gmail.com
http://instagram.com/jade_weaver
https://www.facebook.com/jade.weaver.758
Glicee prints available for order A4, A3 & A2
"In Other Words"; "A visually articulate and lyrical exploration of our local and pop colloquial; our slang, phrases, idioms, quotes, anograms and exclamations".
By: Jessica Newtown
A bold & unapologetic collection of visual works from a group of fiercely modern women.
Exhibition opening night is Thursday 1st Feb starts 6pm, and is a licensed event!
Come get rowdy with the ladies.
