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New Objects - Floor Talk
Maker: Kristin d'Agostino
Watch out or they'll take over the world 2011
Maker: Fran Allison
Materials: silver, paint, paper, resin, length 8cm, width at widest point 5cm
Anomia Blossom 2013 2013
Maker: Pauline Bern
Materials: fine and sterling silver, 9ct gold, shell, kowhai seed, mesh, cable, diameter 70mm, depth 45mm
Fringe Necklace 2013
Maker: Joanna Campbell
Materials: fine and sterling silver, 9ct gold, shell, kowhai seed, mesh, cable, diameter 70mm, depth 45mm
Her Imperial Highness 2007
Maker: Octavia Cook
Materials: sandblasted mirror and plywood, 250 x 180mm
sometimes I wish I could paint 2014
Maker: Deborah Crowe
Materials: machine embroidery, printed textile, stretcher, 380 x 760 x 38mm
decanter
Maker: Crystal Chain Gang
Black brooch with green oval 2010
Maker: Mary Curtis
Materials: Oxidised Stg Silver, wall paper, stainless steel wire, 64 x67 x 11 mm
Sharon Fitness
Sharon Fitness
Biscuit Brooch 1996
Maker: Warwick Freeman
Materials: pearl shell, gold, silver, 55mm x 8mm
Maker: Corrina Hoseason
Portrait of Violeta Parra 2014
Maker: Andy Kingston
Materials: Clay, slips, underglazes, glaze, enamels, 210 x 111 x 115
Gravity's Banana 2012
Maker: Tessa Laird
Materials: Earthenware with underglaze colours, 310 tall X 250 wide X 170 deep
Wiggle Seat 2013
Maker: Peter Lange
Materials: brick, reinforcing steel and epoxy glue.780mm high, 650 deep, 460 wide. 120 Kg
Karu atua 2014
Maker: Karl Leonard
Materials: Pingao, kiekie, kakaho, half rounds, black paint, 61cm length 43cm width
Tea Cosy 2014
Maker: Rosemary McLeod
Materials: Wool and acrylic felts, wool batting, cotton lining, perle thread, 22 x 28 cm plus 4.5 cm gusset
Backpack, piazza del Popolo, Roma 2013
Maker: Gina Matchitt
Materials: woven photo on plastic bag, 500x500mm
Maker: Richard Parker
Dirty Dairy 2014
Maker: Meliors Simms
Materials: Vintage wool blankets, cotton threads, 340x390mm
Bisou 2011
Maker: Manon van Kouswijk
Materials: porcelain, pigment, glaze, silver steel, 55 x 20 x 20 mm
Image credit Jeremy Dillon
Pendant 2013
Maker: Lisa Walker
Materials: wood, lacquer, thread, 15 x 10cm
New Objects
07 August 2014 - 14 August 2014
Viewing : 8-13 August 10am – 5pm
Floortalk: 11am Saturday 9 AugustAuction : 6.30pm Wednesday 13 August drinks from 5.30pm
Purchased items will be available for removal at the conclusion of the auction
Recently Objectspace, in partnership with Creative New Zealand, hosted Paris-based Benjamin Lignel in New Zealand. He’s a very influential figure in contemporary jewellery at the global level. He observed the New Zealand contemporary jewellery sector as ‘small but powerful’ in terms of its relationship to the rest of the world. This observation perfectly describes the works in New Objects. It is a small selection but powerful in terms of its quality and the reputations of these makers. Many of the makers included in New Objects have distinguished themselves from their peers by either having their works acquired by our leading art museums or creating a profile for themselves that extends far beyond our shores, and for a number of these makers by both means . Two New Objects exhibitors, Lisa Walker and Warwick Freeman, are both recipients of the world’s most prestigious award for contemporary jewellery. The makers featured in New Objects represent contemporary practice of the very highest level of accomplishment.
Objectspace since opening in 2004 has attracted local and international accolades. One of the world’s most respected authorities Dr Glenn Adamson, now the Director of New York’s Museum of Art & Design, has described as experimental and innovative. Objectspace was established to create new opportunities for outstanding New Zealand makers and designers. New Objects is an initiative that creates new opportunities for makers and their supporters as it is a selected group of works by outstanding makers, all of whom are recent Objectspace exhibitors.
New Objects will be on exhibition at Objectspace from 8 August with works being offered for sale on 13 August 2014. New Objects is an important opportunity to view and acquire small but powerful works by renowned contemporary makers whose works are held by some of the most prestigious public and private collections in New Zealand and elsewhere.
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