PETER TREVELYA Ambiguous Topographie
28 August - 21 September 201
You are warmly invited to attend the opening preview and meet Peter
Wednesday 28 August, 5.30 – 7.30pm
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Peter Trevelyan, 2013,Section #4, 0.5 graphite and bell jar, 360 x 200 mm diameter.
Exquisite enough in themselves, it is once the viewer becomes cognisant of the materials employed that the response can
only be one of astonishment. Peter Dornauf, eyecontactsite
Hot on the heels of Peter Trevelyan’s success at the Auckland Art Fair, where ‘wow’ was certainly the dominant reaction,
we are delighted to present Ambiguous Topographies - Peter’s first solo exhibition in the gallery.
His title captures - both conceptually and materially - the complexity of the terrain that he has chosen to explore and
to chart. His sculptures are constructed, ‘drawn’, using the most fundamental tools of art – graphite pencil lead and at
times paper. Both investigation and representation, his forms suggest, reference and map mathematics, engineering,
architecture and topographic survey.
As curator Abby Cunnane has asked, why go to such meticulous lengths to sustain structural integrity if you are going to
build in a material as fragile as pencil lead? "The answer", she says, "can only be for the entertainment of courting
the impossibility of imagined structures, of tiptoeing as close to the brink of possibility as the material allows."
The answer is also simply for art and the possibilities of investigation it offers. We hope you enjoy, as much as we do,
these elegant, refined works that speak to the world’s structures and to fragility and ethereality.
Peter Trevelyan is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Arts at Massey University in Wellington. He has built up a solid
exhibition history in the public sector in a relatively short time. In early 2012 he was included in City Gallery
Wellington’s survey of contemporary practice Prospect and recent solo shows include: Tenuous, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua 2012; Selected proofs, Sofa Gallery, University of Canterbury 2012; the light fantastic, Hirschfield Gallery, Wellington 2010; the mimetic brotherhood, Four Plinths Sculpture Project, Wellington Waterfront, 2009-10; the incompleteness theorem, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2008; actron and reactron, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, 2007.
Best wishes
Alison, Kate and Vanessa
ENDS