Bill Culbert: Groundworks
08 Mar - 18 May 2008
Deftly articulated, his installations harness ordinary light sources – lamps and fluorescent tubes – and exist as reminders of the power of material transience and immaterial imagination.
Fifty years ago Culbert moved from New Zealand to London to study painting, a decade later his investigations brought him to the manipulation of light and shadow – in natural and electrical form – as a restrained and potent language of discovery and metamorphosis.
Groundworks is conceived in dialogue with the artist’s Lightworks exhibition presented at the Gallery a decade ago. Groundworks also premieres three new works for New Zealand audiences, two of which have been created especially for the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
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Bill Culbert View West Taranaki installation view, Groundworks 2008, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Collection Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Acquired with assistance from the Govett-Brewster Foundation.
Photographer Bryan James