Collating together abandoned sculptures and half-baked artworks, this exhibition aims to facilitate the completion of abandoned artworks and ill-fated projects in the form of a duet. These wallflowers have found their second chance to shine, with the half-finished efforts of 20 artists presented in the exhibition and made available for other artists and gallery visitors to select, adopt, and complete a project. The duet occurs between two parties, the ‘initiator’ and the ‘completor’, a kind of pot-luck collaboration, reworking the available resources and bringing out new potentials from these unfinished …
Judy Millar has become one of New Zealand painting’s leading figures and in some ways, she is a starting point for this project, an artist who addresses painting without apology. Her recent works are known for their ‘gesturalism’ – a feigned expressionism that simultaneously undermines and reinforces Greenbergian art-politics. Ostensibly, they are about surface, the grid, and repetition – abstraction’s classic devices. But while the things she makes can be beautiful, they also raise an eyebrow towards the contemporary art world’s view of abstract painting.
Her work manifests a strange spatial …
Garden Place is Fiona Amundsen’s latest series and it continues her interest in banal, urban sites and the way they can be utilised to explore the medium of photography. While she is known for her strict methodology, this series represents a shift in her practice, with her images becoming more open and unsettling.
Amundsen has shown extensively in New Zealand in the last two years and has been featured in a number of leading art magazines. She also has an upcoming exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
