Cat Auburn: Push Me, Pull You

CAT AUBURN
Push Me, Pull You
26 June - 27 July 2013

Cat Auburn, 2013, Push Me, Pull You animals, concrete and steel, dimensions variable.

Most artists show in the commercial sector before they make it into public galleries. Cat Auburn has done it the other way round and Bartley + Company Art is very pleased to be giving Cat her first solo show in a dealer gallery.

Animals in one form or another have been an ongoing feature of her practice and Cat is interested in their ability to personify human characteristics and emotions. In preparing for this exhibition, she has responded to the history of the gallery building at 56 Ghuznee Street as a former stable, and to a desire to explore concrete as a medium for sculpture, which could be located outside. The exhibition features six life size unique sculptures of hunting and hunted animals and a limited edition suite of pewter maquettes. Push Me, Pull You explores the psychological spaces of freedom and constraint.

Cat Auburn is an emerging artist whose career has got off to a strong start. While completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts (Distinction) at the Elam School of Fine Arts in 2007, she received the Joseph Raynes Scholarship for Fine Arts and the Auckland University Bursary Award. Since then she has exhibited regularly and continued to win recognition. She has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Award and in 2010 won the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award and a year-long residency in Christchurch. She also won the People’s Choice Award in the COCA Anthony Harper Art Award. In the past year Cat’s work has been seen in her exhibition Training Aids at The Dowse and in the Courtenay Place lightbox project in a collaboration with Fiona Pardington.

Last days to see Hips exhibition

Sam Mitchell's very successful solo exhibition closes this Saturday - there are a range on watercolours on book pages still available which can be viewed online here.

Sam Mitchell floor talk video

Sam was very generous giving a floor talk in the gallery while she was visiting - if you missed this you can watch it on Vimeo here.

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