Disconnect - Opens Tonight!

Disconnect - Opens Tonight!

20 - 26 JUNE 2011

DISCONNECT: ROSALIND ATKINSON.

rosalind atkinson.jpgOPENING: 5.30pm Monday 20 June.

OPEN: 10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday - Sunday.

This is Rosalind's first solo show following on from her successful collaborative exhibition with Leilani Isara at Thistle Hall in 2009. She continues to work primarily in pencil, ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper whilst integrating etchings and lithographs into her range.

'Disconnect' explores the age-old contrast between a scientific, rational and mathematical versus a poetic and intuitive way of viewing the world around us, and the disconnection between the two. Fluid, organic contour line is juxtaposed with obsessive compulsive pencil detail to attempt to reconcile the two modes. Our disconnection from the natural world around us is investigated through anthropomorphism and juxtaposition of portraiture with animal and plant forms.

This exhibition aims to reconnect the process of making artworks with the ideas explored within them. Old frames are upcycled, paper is recycled or reused, throw away scraps are reinvented as exquisite miniatures. Pencils, paint, ink and other materials from the bottom of the drawer is brought into the light and reused. By doing so the exhibition attempts to consciously step outside a hypocritical, consumerist model and create artworks with transparency and integrity.

Works continue to explore the line between art and illustration, and the interaction and translation between images and words, reflecting Rosalind's background studying illustration at Massey, and current studies in English Literature.

Up Next

30 JUNE - 3 JULY 2011

Searching For Buddha: Heather Hapeta.

10.00am - 5.00pm Thursday - Sunday.

Heather Hapeta has studied Buddhism in Thailand and although she has been involved in a monk-making ceremony - by helping to cut the hair of 79 new monks - and has a certificate to show she meditated for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej when he was unwell, this photographic exhibition is about how Buddha images are made.

She had not realised it was an almost secret occupation and had searched many places before giving up the hunt. Two days later a Swedish backpacker told her 'my sister had found a place like that when she was cycling through Thailand six months ago'.

Heather immediately caught the next train to the town where she spent a week watching the whole process - these black and white photos are the record of that week.

She is new to Wellington (from Christchurch) and is an author, travel writer and photographer.

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