Singular Companions: Sculpture from the Collection
01 Dec 2012 - 27 Jan 2013
Grouped as new companions in five gallery spaces, the works explore the containment of memory, measure, the mapping of terrestrial journeys, the body and abstraction alongside interplays with domestic ciphers, social customs, illusion and weightlessness.
The New Zealand and international artists in Singular Companions employ a wide variety of materials in their work from drift nets, beeswax and timber to copper, ceramic, neon, marble, fibreglass, re-purposed plastic bottles and sound.
The exhibition spans more than four decades of making and registers each artist’s particular sculptural interests. These differ markedly, from the feminist concerns of Mary-Louise Browne to the environmental considerations of Andrew Drummond, from Filipe Tohi’s complex patterned abstraction to the investigation of perception by Paul Hartigan and Neil Dawson. Recent additions to the collection by artists Lisa Reihana, Laurelle Pookamelya, Bill Culbert and Lauren Winstone are presented alongside important yet rarely seen works from the gallery’s holdings.
Artists include Mary-Louise Browne, Bill Culbert, Neil Dawson, Don Driver, Andrew Drummond, Karl Fritsch and Gavin Hipkins, Paul Hartigan, Christine Hellyar, John Ward Knox, Laurelle Pookamelya, Lisa Reihana, Peter Robinson, Filipe Tohi, Lauren Winstone and Yin Xiuzhen.