Animals take over Sarjeant Gallery

Animals take over Sarjeant Gallery

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Some animals will be recreated more equal than others at Wanganui’s Sarjeant Gallery later this month.

Animal Farm: Four Legs Good,Two Legs Bad is a group exhibition of works that feature four legged animals, including a video by Whanganui UCOL lecturer Brit Bunkley.

Primarily drawn from the Sarjeant’s rich permanent collection, the exhibition includes a variety of historical and contemporary works across a broad range of media.

Sculpture lecturer Brit Bunkley will exhibit a video work titled Slow Train a’ Comin’. The series of short related video vignettes featuring two trains and a cow, “reflects apocalyptic fantasies of clashes between nature and culture,” he says.

The vignettes were created by compositing photorealistic 3D animations with digitally altered footage of rural New Zealand. “It produces a believable but skewed setting that is both convincing and unsettling,” says Brit Bunkley.

The exhibition will run from 20 June – 13 September in the East Wing of the Sarjeant Gallery.

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