Window Gallery
Sharon Painter-Arps: Unwearable Art
11 September 2015 - 04 November 2015
Contemporary carving
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Darren Keith: Social Fabrications
06 June 2015 - 25 July 2015
An exhibition of ceramic works by Darren Keith
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Robin Bold: Meta Vessel
07 March 2015 - 11 April 2015
Silversmith Robin Bold explores the idea of “the
family silver” through mixed-media objects.
The Bricks
06 January 2015 - 07 March 2015
The bricks is an exhibition by designer Guy Hohmann.
The Effects of Crack
31 October 2014 - 05 January 2015
As part of Clay O'Clock: An Auckland Festival of Ceramics, Virginia Leonard will be taking part in the Clay-a-thon programme, and will talk about her practice at Objectspace on 8 November from 2 -2.30 pm. If you would like to join the tour visiting eight other galleries, please contact the Gus Fisher Gallery.
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Am I liminal yet
21 August 2014 - 30 October 2014
Miranda Smitheram is fascinated by textile surfaces and the myriad ways that exist to clothe a body through design and form. Initially from the fashion industry, she became aware of the characteristics of a sector typified by mass-manufacture, mass-consumption and mass-disposal and was prompted to consider alternative possibilities.
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The Stillness of Movement
21 June 2014 - 19 August 2014
The Stillness of Movement by Kate Fitzharris can be interpreted as a physical representation of a coastal walk she took from her seaside home in Dunedin to the top of a hill and back down again. It also explores what she describes as “the connections between our very earthly nature and our heavenly or spiritual aspirations”.
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Wondering about Nature
03 May 2014 - 14 June 2014
A whimsical installation by Yasmin Dubrau that blends a love of paper folding and painting.
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Stretched. An installation by Rebecca Asquith
25 March 2014 - 26 April 2014
In this new body of work, Rebecca Asquith explores craft techniques not traditionally associated with furniture making and applies them to a collection of furniture pieces. She's particularly interested in the properties and processes associated with leather, which is traditionally used in furniture as a soft cushioning material. Once boiled in water, however, leather can harden into an incredibly rigid material. Rebecca experiments with this boiling process to manipulate the shapes leather can form, embracing its unpredictable and organic nature.
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Liminals
01 February 2014 - 22 March 2014
In
this body of work, Jess Paraone (Ngāti Kawau, Kaitangata) has formally engaged with risk-taking as part of her
practice. By creating ceramic objects that comprise both raku and porcelain
clay – she breaks the rules of ceramic studio production. Delighting in pushing
her chosen materials to their limit – she explores their qualities of strength
and fragility. The element of unpredictability is celebrated as part of her
making process and establishes the basis for further investigation.
Clare Smith: Bitter Harvest
21 November 2013 - 17 December 2013
There has long been concern about exploitation and conditions of those working in the textile industry, but increasingly there is growing unease about its impact on the environment too. Clare Smith is interested in the effects of dye pollution; particularly the relationship between the contamination and commercial imperatives shaped by the Western consumers in the manufacture of cheap goods.
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Victoria Bell: Resisting Africa
19 October 2013 - 18 November 2013
Bell’s practice is founded upon a textile sensibility,
which draws upon both fine art and craft histories. Resisting Africa is an installation that
references elements of the exotic and wilderness of Africa. Animals, relocated
indoors and transformed into furnishings within a domestic setting, are
simultaneously recognisable and unsettling
Biostructure
23 September 2013 - 16 October 2013
Frances Rood has created two large site-specific works that will be displayed in the tall Objectspace windows.
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Hollow Adaption
31 July 2013 - 21 September 2013
“This animated body of work responds to how nature adapts to changes in the environment. The result is my own version of nature, imagined and stitched together – inspired by the rural landscape in which I live, and the ocean shores and rock pools I explored as a child. “
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Te Mana Motuhake
15 June 2013 - 31 July 2013
Aimee Ratana (Ngāi Tūhoe) has used blankets, over recent years, as a medium to explore the legacy of historical injustices inflicted on Ngāi Tūhoe by the Crown through legislation.
Adventures in Vintage Needlecraft
03 May 2013 - 08 June 2013
Adventures in Vintage Needlecraft is presented in Objectspace’s Window Gallery and Vault to coincide with Rosemary McLeod’s appearance at the 2013 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival and the launch of With Bold Needle and Thread: Adventures in Vintage Needlecraft.
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Under the Rose
01 March 2013 - 27 April 2013
Inspired by T.S.Eliot’s poem Burnt Norton, the installation Under the Rose can be understood as a meditation on the practice of rituals, spirituality, and making art. The hanging bulbs in the garden are cast from resin. Each hand-made form contains roses – both real and artificial.
Bliss
25 January 2013 - 27 February 2013
Bliss alludes to the "three wise monkeys" in the well-known maxim, "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". Despite the title, it doesn't take long to note that the mood is anything but ecstatic; a degree of unease exists beyond the obvious playfulness apparent in the first glance. The monkeys' aping gestures and blank smiles signal the artist's interest in the psychological state of the human condition - its propensity to opt for superficiality and disinterest.
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Kirsten Haydon: Ice Mosaic
16 November 2012 - 19 December 2012
A visit to Antarctica was the inspiration behind this elegant body of work. In Ice Mosaic, jeweller Kirsten Haydon explores the history of the vast and frozen continent, as well as the experiences of various visitors to the area through the notion of the souvenir.
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Roseanne Bartley: Seeding the Cloud
12 November 2012 - 28 September 2012
Reading Room: Tessa Laird & Peter Lange
03 August 2012 - 26 September 2012
"Reading Room" is an installation of new work by Tessa Laird and Peter Lange. Laird's considerable library of clay books scattered atop and around Lange's brick furniture forms the basis of this site specific installation created for the Objectspace Window Gallery.
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Meliors Simms: Extraction
08 June 2012 - 01 August 2012
Embroidery was traditionally considered to be an essential accomplishment for all ladies: an occupation of model domesticity to while away the interior hours, perhaps working on a trousseau or household linen. Meliors Simms' installation "Extraction" presents a selection of hand stitched works - made reusing old domestic textiles - that do not consider household affairs, but instead are preoccupied with pollution and environmental harm. Simms examines the consequences of our consumption on a global level, working to an interior rather than landscape scale and repurposing familiar domestic materials salvaged from domestic discards or secondhand shops.
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Jill Studd: Unembedded
20 April 2012 - 06 June 2012
Jill Studd's evocation of some of the most challenging contemporary global issues presented through the domestic medium of knitting wool is charged by a particular appreciation for the prosaic. This installation of evocatively titled "knittings" - Unembedded, Green Cuisine and the Proletarian Plates - eschews any of the domestic vestiges that might be associated with knitting or wool, rather occupying the realm of political or protest art.
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Talente: One Year On
09 March 2012 - 18 April 2012
Caroline Earley: Domestic Disturbance
27 January 2012 - 07 March 2012
Domestic Disturbance is a ceramics installation by former Nelson, and now United States, based artist Caroline Earley. It is a response, in part, to Earley's return to the United States after sixteen years in New Zealand.
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Sherril Jennings: Ladies a Plate
05 November 2011 - 24 January 2012
Sherril Jennings' "Ladies a Plate" installation combines seemingly incongruent fragments from the past and integrates them into the present. Through the repurposing of remnants which provide the primary material for "Ladies a Plate", disparate parts have been unified, creating an assemblage of women reflecting past generations.
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Karl Fritsch: Rings Without End
04 November 2011 - 23 November 2011
Kennedy Brown: Pacific Allsorts
23 September 2011 - 02 November 2011
The three pieces of furniture in Kennedy Brown's Pacific Allsorts installation continue his exploration of the relationship between the traditional and modern in New Zealand furniture design. This most recent investigation, created for Objectspace, focuses on the blending of traditional Pacific construction methods with contemporary furniture design.
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Jasmine Watson: Subsequence
22 August 2011 - 21 September 2011
The enamel brooches and objects by Jasmine Watson in the exhibition Subsequence relate to her ongoing interest in pattern and symmetry. Watson states, "My work is inspired by ornamental patterns and complex detail based on mathematical principles. I am interested in geometry and tessellations; interlocking shapes that can assemble into elaborate ornamental sequences, repeating to infinity."
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Hannah Bremner: Wunderkammer
09 July 2011 - 06 August 2011
Lynn Kelly: Souvenirs
11 June 2011 - 07 July 2011
Colonial Goose
06 May 2011 - 08 June 2011
Talk
01 April 2011 - 04 May 2011
Deborah Crowe has long been fascinated with textiles and embroidery. Once a practice that involved embroiderers spending untold hours hunched over doing 'fancywork', embroidery has of course entered the twenty first century. As an artist, Crowe has something interesting to say about these two fields and over the last few years has created hundreds of witty, observational works that showcase her obsession with textile samplers in combination with machine embroidery.
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Structure: Life
01 March 2011 - 30 March 2011
In this installation, Wellington based object maker and contemporary jeweller, Vaune Mason, elevates the remnants of non-human lives. She says that a tendency to focus on minute things has led her to imagine "a whole world of memories untold in the lost lives of common insects, birds and animals." The viewer is encouraged to see these constructions as Mason does; not as macabre constructions, but as testament to the innumerable, yet precious, untold lives of small animals everywhere.
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The Art of Engagement
29 January 2011 - 27 February 2011
'Touch, Pause, Engage' was originally intended to offer the Australian community a glimpse into the Contemporary Jewellery scene in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and to reset the trans-Tasman rivalry between our rugby-loving brothers and sisters. Known primarily as the call the referee shouts before two rugby teams lock into a scrum, 'Touch, Pause, Engage', re-presented at Objectspace as 'The Art of Engagement', has now become an invitation for artists to converse through jewellery, as well as a call to audiences to interact with the work in both its physical and conceptual manifestations.
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Night Cities
17 December 2010 - 26 January 2011
In comparison with the daytime, the city at night entails dramatic changes in visibility, movement, rhythm, activity, inhabitation and light. Yet our 'night cities' are rarely considered as a topic of architectural investigation. The Night City studio project, run in the first year of the Master of Architecture (Professional) degree this year at Unitec, offered twelve students an opportunity to approach architectural design through research into lighting conditions found on their chosen site. Students focused on Karangahape Road, as its environs support a unique, active nightlife and contain a variety of urban morphologies and lighting conditions.
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Lisa Walker
06 November 2010 - 15 December 2010
This installation presents a selection of recent neck pieces by Lisa Walker, each of which utilises a range of materials from New Zealand collected by Walker when she returned home from Munich last December after 14 years abroad. The construction of the neck pieces resembles that of contemporary Polynesian lei, where the designs frequently draw upon found materials, both natural and manufactured, in bright colours and textures. Walker's works also refer to developments in contemporary international jewellery as well as to the 'Bone Stone Shell' jewellery movement that emerged in New Zealand in the 1980's.
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Shore Party
01 October 2010 - 03 November 2010
Philippa Durkin's ceramic works featured in 'Shore Party' pay homage to the early Antarctic explorers. She writes, "there is an ever growing interest and canonization of anything and anybody connected to Antarctica. The continent looms large in the New Zealand psyche. After spending seven months conserving the heroic huts of Shackleton and Scott, I have an intimate connection with the objects."
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Drapes for Real Men
03 September 2010 - 29 September 2010
Drapes for Real Men references the traditions of textile and its functional and domestic associations, utilising printing to embellish the textile surface. The resulting textiles celebrate the handmade product but with an agenda, the content undermining the traditional expectations of what is pattern and the adornment of a domestic retreat. In this case every real man's home is his bunker.
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Okoshi-ezu: Unfolding the New Japanese Architecture
06 August 2010 - 01 September 2010
This exhibition employs the ancient okoshi-ezu technique to represent certain streams of development in contemporary Japanese architecture. A number of contemporary architects are producing projects in which the realised buildings resemble okoshi-ezu models. As these architects have sought to reintegrate the elements of structure, spatial division, and envelope that modernist dogma separated, they have created architecture that is highly conducive to being modelled - and understood - using the thin, surface-oriented okoshi-ezu technique.
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Mathew McConnell: Chapter Three: Sleights of Hand
09 July 2010 - 04 August 2010
Encountering Mathew McConnell's installation Chapter Three: Sleights of Hand, it is hard not to feel that there's a whole lot of winking and nudging going down and not all of it is in the best of taste. Concepts explored by McConnell include displacement and transformation. These ideas, filtered through McConnell's peculiar meditations on 'thingness' and 'objecthood' remind one that his type of approach hasn't had a lot of airtime in the context of local craft practice.
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Simon Gamble: Piix
10 June 2010 - 07 July 2010
Piix is a new series of conceptual furniture objects by Simon Gamble, who considers digitally controlled cutting machinery as holding "dormant potential for crafting unique objects." He observes that digitally controlled cutting is becoming more and more commonplace in manufacture and that its use "allows for outputs from the virtual to the physical world." Employing an innovative creative approach that differs radically from the mundane tasks these machines are typically used for, Piix unlocks the latent potential for crafting bespoke objects using CNC (computer numerically controlled) milling.
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Humming on a windless slope
06 May 2010 - 09 June 2010
Transmogrifier
22 January 2010 - 23 March 2010
Leonor Hipolito: Apparatus
16 December 2009 - 21 January 2010
An Objectspace summer window installation by Portugese jeweller Leonor Hipolito, Apparatus comprises a range of works reproduced after medical tools and fashioned out of tree trunks and branches. Delicately hand made, allowing the wood grain and shape to subtly influence the final form, these 'tools' serve as reminders of our relationship to the natural world.
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Latticework Vases
05 November 2009 - 15 December 2009
Deborah Dell is intrigued by the history of ceramics. The relationship that familiar forms have within the discourse of ceramics has long held her attention, in particular the vase. She observes that "vases have always existed as functional objects, as well as existed in the decorative and the contemplative realm. My interest in the vase is how all of these subjects converge."
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Gilded Blessing
17 September 2009 - 04 November 2009
Employing differing art forms, Gilded Blessing (the cello is a Chinese 'Blessing' brand) is a collaborative audiovisual installation between gilder Sarah Guppy and composer Eve de Castro-Robinson. Both were attracted to the idea of exploring the musical instrument as a metaphor and a conduit for traditional artisan skill and contemporary sound practice. Gilded Blessing has been configured so that while near the cello, the viewer taking in the sensuous gold gilded form simultaneously informs a proximity monitoring camera. In some sense the viewer is able to 'play' the cello in the act of moving around but not actually touching it.
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I Came Back As Someone Else
23 July 2009 - 16 September 2009
Aerial Antics
04 June 2009 - 22 July 2009
Sugar Mountain
23 April 2009 - 03 June 2009
Although these are new pieces of jewellery in Anna Wallis's catalogue of works they seem familiar, not in a seen-this-before kind of way, but in a same-but-different kind of way; a bit like climbing a mountain I guess. You're moving along, one step after another, watching where you're going, paying attention to what is immediately in front of you and then you pause, look up and out and things are not quite as they were, you have arrived somewhere you weren't before. You are still on the mountain and still with some distance to climb, but you are definitely somewhere new, somewhere you weren't before.
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Autopoios
19 March 2009 - 22 April 2009
2D/3D
12 February 2009 - 18 March 2009
Exotic Blend
17 December 2008 - 11 February 2009
A reflection upon cross cultural heritage, Jacqui Chan's Exotic Blend signifies her desire, as a contemporary jeweller, to embody the particular form of chinoiserie endemic to her New Zealand upbringing. With this body of work Chan was drawn to tea tins for the symbolism they engender. The exotic imagery depicted in tea tins is, she observes, equally distant from modern China as it is from England. Cut up, pierced, folded and tricked into wearable brooch forms, the tea tin is reclaimed by the artist.
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Digital Craft
14 November 2008 - 16 December 2008
Fold
11 October 2008 - 08 November 2008
In this window installation, Ainsley O'Connell explores the creative potential of paper folding. The sculptural and architectural possibilities in O'Connell's four year investigation into simple folded objects rendered as cast glass are successfully realized. The artist engages with "the transformation of the mundane flat sheet, through the craft-based fold, to emerge as a sculptural art object, seeking to explore how folding can be used to design architectural forms."
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Liquid Life
06 November 2008 - 04 October 2008
Save For Best
02 August 2008 - 30 August 2008
The Tomb Of The Unknown Maker
28 June 2008 - 26 July 2008
Precious
27 May 2008 - 21 June 2008
Outside: Inside
12 April 2008 - 17 May 2008
In this installation by Rachelle Pedersen, intricately created works have been created from cotton and wool yarns using a Macrame technique. Referring to the internal structures of the body, finely knotted channels appear to spread across the human form.
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Scentiment
01 March 2008 - 05 April 2008
The Loving Cup
23 January 2008 - 24 February 2008
Memento
21 December 2007 - 21 January 2008
A collaboration between Ilse-Marie Erl and Simon Gamble, Memento is an Objectspace window installation featuring a range of exquisitely worked organic objects which the makers have embedded with USB digital memory chips. An insightful glimpse into the streamlined and often impersonal looking world of high-tech gadgets, Memento asks, "are we designing for ourselves or the machine?"
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For The Whanau
17 November 2007 - 20 December 2007
For The Whanau is a Window installation for Objectspace. These works in whale tooth Kipa has made especially for his family as an heirloom collection. They were not created as exhibition pieces and Objectspace is privileged to exhibit them. Rangi Kipa works in the fields of taa moko, sculpture (wood, stone, bone, corian) and ethnographic taonga. In all of these fields he has established an international reputation for innovation while constantly drawing inspiration from his Maori heritage.
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The Inside Story
13 October 2007 - 10 November 2007
Mr Moorhouse's Garden
08 November 2007 - 06 October 2007
Lei for Walls
28 July 2007 - 25 August 2007
Jo Torr
23 June 2007 - 21 July 2007
A window installation for Objectspace, Jo Torr's Pacific Crossings and Transit of Venus III are based on 1770's dress styles fashionable when James Cook was exploring the Pacific. Constructed predominantly of Tapa cloth, these works defy easy categorization as both sculptural and wearable objects.
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Albino Wood in Blue Ribbon
27 January 2007 - 03 March 2007
In Yasmin Dubraus practice, vines, flowers and springtime buds recall the decorative attempts at reflecting on and possessing wilderness familiar to many cultures.
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8+1
28 October 2006 - 18 November 2006
This exhibition is the result of eight participants attending a workshop given by Rian de Jong in January 2006 in Sydney, Australia. The group came together from diverse backgrounds and interests. During the workshop the participants were encouraged to put their usual practices to one side, and to engage with fresh materials and new ideas. The group had a warm exchange and the subsequent workshop pieces revealed how far each participant could go when letting their imaginations free within a new space. The workshop 'Transportation' lends itself to this exhibition 8+1 as it travels to the home countries of each of the participants.
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More Than Meets The Eye
30 September 2006 - 21 October 2006
A spring inspired window installation by glass artist Julie Baverstock.
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Ladies and Gentlemen
06 September 2006 - 30 September 2006
This window work has been created in conjunction with NZ Fashion Week by Beth Ellery resident designer for Scotties.
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Lanois, Goldenpoint and Angelus
07 August 2006 - 02 September 2006
An intricate and vibrant installation of paper-craft objects by Jenny Nielson.
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Save the Snails - Guadalcanal '44
10 July 2006 - 05 August 2006
Glass artist Lee Brogan wants us to consider the impact of governmental and corporate relationships on the natural environment through her installations in cast glass.
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The Complete Set
15 May 2006 - 10 June 2006
Keely McGlynn's installation "The Complete Set" relates her relationship with the New Zealand isles. In this work McGlynn gives equal status to all three islands relating the significance of her personal experiences of living in each place.
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Vonney Ball
12 June 2006 - 08 June 2006
Vonney Ball's Window Installation features a diverse group of slip-cast earthenware vessels which have their foundations in a classical aesthetic. Her interest in European art, history and architecture has informed the shapes, forms and imagery she has developed in her practice.
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Stuff of Life
17 April 2006 - 13 May 2006
Marlyne Jackson's installation Stuff of Life references the wealth of associations made possible by the process of knitting things together. Jackson is a maker. She has developed a broad skill base which includes, but is not restricted to, an appreciation of the handmade and domestic craft.
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Works from Beaded Loop series, Chroma series and Crimp series
27 March 2006 - 15 April 2006
This installation by UK based jeweller Susan Cross has occurred as part of the Manukau School of Visual Art's International Workshops series.
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Body of Work
30 January 2006 - 25 February 2006
This collection of jewellery from Jennifer Laracy explores symbolism related to a passage from The Caged Skylark by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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The History of the Cup (clam cup)
05 December 2005 - 18 December 2005
Clam cup is one piece from a series of works created for an exhibition titled The History of the Cup. Working with the basic shape of the cup, such an everyday item, Janet Green wanted to elevate the status of this familiar form, from the ordinary, to the extraordinary.
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Sweets for my Sweet
21 November 2005 - 04 December 2005
Renee Bevan explores issues of desire and romance through her series of chocolate inspired alternative material brooches.
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Fetish and the Feline Form: A Body Pierced
25 October 2005 - 19 November 2005
This window work by ceramicist Kirsty Gardner explores the fetish through her ceramic feline altars. Gardner combines issues of spirituality with diverse ideas related to body adornment and the domestic pet. Kirsty Gardiner emigra
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Some ... Progress
20 September 2005 - 22 October 2005
In this window installation Melbourne based maker Simon Cottrell brings together a collection of forms; brooch, cup, jug and container - exploring the nature of process.
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Re(ady) Made Installation
23 July 2005 - 17 September 2005
Re(ady) Made: A Sustainability Primer looks at the question of sustainability through the idea of reuse (the readymade), and recycling. This installation uses found objects and a recycled plastic manufactured by Pacific Plastics Limited, Otaki, to explore the ways in which industrial design often relies on unsustainable practices. Re(ady) Made proposes a cycle of resource use as an example of the possibilities if industrial designers think about the larger context of their activities.
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Doing furniture conversations
23 July 2005 - 13 August 2005
This installation by Wellington furniture maker Tim Larkin looks to a dark and visceral space. Through the use of pegboard - "as a type of hysterical pine plantation it represents nature reduced to 'standing reserve' " – and by breaking it, threading it, burning it, planing it and oiling it he reveals its poetic nature and shows that this hyper-refined industrial product can return to its primordial 'nature'.
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Fell in love with stitches
24 May 2005 - 16 July 2005
Sandra Bushby reinterprets historically innovative Louis Comfort Tiffany art jewellery designs by creating felt embroidered objects and placing them in an installation setting.
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The Ring Project
26 October 2004 - 11 December 2004
The Ring Project was developed by jeweller Pauline Bern based on investigations begun in 2003 during a residency at the Grey Street Workshop in Adelaide.
Light Vessels
25 January 2005 - 01 January 1970
These hand cast concrete vessels by Rigel Sorzano are part of an ongoing project by the artist relating to the mystery and shifting shape of the spiral form. Here her exploration has been one of process as much as form; the individual characteristics of a piece, as developed during casting, have been exploited through exaggeration, piercing, or wearing away.
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