Pinewood Bend 2013

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Pinewood Bend 2013

Judy Darragh

Exhibition Preview: Friday 30 August at 5:30pm

Exhibition Runs: Saturday 31 August - Saturday 28 September 2013.

Judy Darragh

Pinewood Bend 2013

Exhibition preview / Blue Oyster re-opening: Friday 30 August at 5.30pm

Exhibition runs: Saturday 31 August – Saturday 28 September 2013

The Blue Oyster re-opens its new premises with an exhibition of new paintings and floor works by Auckland-based artist Judy Darragh this Friday. Given Darragh’s history of exhibiting and being involved in the New Zealand project space environment, it is both extremely fitting and an honour to re-launch the Blue Oyster with a body of her new work.

Pinewood Bend 2013 is a development of Darragh’s recent work, where PVC banners that once advertised movies in cinema foyers have been altered with paint, tape and aerosol spray. Like portals opening, the forms in these works offer a hint of the altered and the alternative.

The floor works in Pinewood Bend are aluminium tubing, bent and wrapped with bandage-like material, which bulge and swell. Some have footwear inner soles attached suggesting walking, footprints or alluding to a journey. As Darragh states:

The forest has been a mythological site, a walk into the unknown, where we can confront our fears, once we overcome them we return transformed… we never know what is around the bend.

Judy Darragh lives and works in Auckland and played a significant role in the development of ARTSPACE, Auckland, the independent artist run space Teststrip, Auckland and Cuckoo. She was born in Christchurch, completed a Diploma in Visual Communication and Design at the Wellington Polytechnic and has taught at tertiary level for many years. She has exhibited widely and her works are held in various major collections including Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. In 2004 the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa featured a major retrospective of her work curated by Natasha Conland and entitled ‘Judy Darragh: So... you made it?’. Darragh is represented by Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch and Two Rooms, Auckland.

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