Lost Weekend - Andrea Low

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Lost Weekend
Andrea Low
27 February – 18 May 2007

Flickering landscapes framed by car windows are blurred, grainy images in motion. Andrea Low’s Lost Weekend is an evocative collection of images derived from a readymade narrative – the classic New Zealand road trip, the drive to the beach.

Andrea’s family holidays were always spent at the beach, including hours of driving getting there and back and in Lost Weekend she explores the rhythms and sounds of this journey. It is not the destination but the getting there that interests her, the trip itself with its rich, archetypal underpinnings

The materials collected on these journeys are filmed, re-photographed, and often re-arranged in the editing process. Images that are out of focus and disorientating challenge our ideas of perception and memory. Andrea suggests the images “are, of course, fragmentary but are they untrustworthy? You could say they were fictionalised accounts based on actual events” Don’t miss this opportunity to see the work of Andrea Low at Ramp Gallery.

Biography:

Andrea is an Auckland based artist of Hawaiian, Fijian and Samoan decent. She did her Masters of Fine Arts in sculpture at Elam in 1995 and works in the fields of installation, photography, moving image, design and sculpture. For the past five years she has been a lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts. In her own practice Andrea has most recently been engaged in making large scale works for public spaces, including Otahuhu Youth & Recreation Sculpture Commission, Hopetoun Street Entrance Sculpture Wall and Ponsonby Road Gates.

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