July 5 - August 10, 2024
Group show
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - works by Conor Clarke
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - works by Mark Braunias
installation view - works by Kristin Stephenson
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front through to back gallery
installation view - works by Tyne Gordon
installation view - work by Judy Darragh
installation view - back gallery
installation view - works by L M presents
installation view - back gallery
installation view - works by Leigh Martin
installation view - back gallery
installation view - works by Steve Carr
Thoughtform Shimmer…the title of this group show is a simple conceit, for good art by its very nature offers material form to a decent idea; and who doesn’t enjoy a bit of shimmer, that vibration of heat or sparkle of light in painted and sculpted form?
We see it here in the tensile spheres of Steve Carr’s Smoke Bubbles, and the glass rods that suggest both excavation and strata in Andrew Drummond’s 1996 work Livery for Extraction.
Miranda Parkes’ desire for depth of field in her painting drives her canvases into three dimensions. Painted flat and when almost dry, she compresses, crumples and billows canvas of considerable surface area onto quite small stretchers. She loads them up, not just with the weight of paint but also with expectations of body, of movement, of freshness and vigour. Gilded and metallic textured surfaces literally shimmer, along with stripes, blobs and colour combinations that tingle with surprise and inevitably satisfy.
There are new collaborators in town, viz L M Presents. Kellie McNeill took photographs of the Ramsay Glacier and its outlet lake at the very top of the Rakaia, after a dusting of autumn snow. She printed, with plenty of silver, four images portrait in format. And her long-time friend Christchurch painter Marie Le Lievre, was invited to add and to intervene. Pours of oil paint, sometimes dense and sometimes transparent, reinforce and refine the attention we pay to the grandeur of these landscapes. The painted elements feel like portals or angels even, prescient and hovering in this majesty. It is a terrific debut, this suite of work.
There are quiet thoughtforms that shimmer here too. Tyne Gordon’s bespoke cast pewter frames help define the atmosphere and volatility of the surfaces within; the lick of smoke layers up dark dream-like fields in Stone Maka’s new paintings; and Conor Clarke’s command of photogram and thermal imaging processes manifest thoughtful and very beautiful images of Kaikoura titi, inland of the marae she whakapapas to at Mangamaunu.
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Selected works
Heather Straka
Sam Harrison
Andrew Drummond
Judy Darragh
Miranda Parkes
Miranda Parkes
Miranda Parkes
Stone Maka
Mark Braunias
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Conor Clarke
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L M presents
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Brenda Nightingale
Leigh Martin
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Kristin Stephenson
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Images, media & dimensions of the more than 40 works by 15 artists exhibited in Thoughtform Shimmer are in the Details of works section below. Included are 6 from the grid of 18 Untitled Studies by Leigh Martin.
2024
oil on canvas board, fr
930 x 740mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
ed 1/7, woodcut on Fabriano paper
1110 x 610mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
unique photogram, silver gelatin fibre-based print
370 x 310mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
1/3 & 2 AP, silver gelatin fibre-based print
370 x 310mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
oil & inkjet print on Hahenmühle photo rag
1080 x 835mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
oil & inkjet print on Hahenmühle photo rag
1080 x 835mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
oil & inkjet print on Hahenmühle photo rag
1080 x 835mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
oil & inkjet print on Hahenmühle photo rag
1080 x 835mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
smoke, enamel on spider webs on canvas
1020 x 1020mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
smoke & enamel on canvas
760 x 560mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
quilted fabric work
1090 x 850mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
quilted fabric work
1090 x 850mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on canvas
850 x 850 x 320
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on canvas
700 x 700 x 260mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on canvas
320 x 330 x 260mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
acrylic, plant-based paint, metallic leaf & varnish on pressed paper
390 x 225 x 60mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2020
acrylic inks on paper
330 x 280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2020
acrylic inks on paper
330 x 280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2020
acrylic inks on paper
330 x 280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2020
acrylic inks on paper
330 x 280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2020
acrylic inks on paper
330 x 280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2020
acrylic inks on paper
330 x 280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2024
acrylic on canvas
1030 x 1280mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
found objects, stockings & metal
1550 x 350 x 260mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
1996
coal, sphagnum moss, beeswax, glass & wood
1700 x 1250 x 230mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
oil on copper, pewter and found materials
220 x 170mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
oil on copper, pewter and found materials
220 x 170mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
oil on copper, pewter and found materials
220 x 170mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
1983 / 2023
stained paper on stretched canvas
1220 x 300mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
1983 / 2023
stained paper on stretched canvas
1220 x 300mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2016
inkjet prints, ed of 3 + AP
1225 x 1225mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2016
inkjet prints, ed of 3 + AP
1225 x 1225mm fr
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2022
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2022
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer
2023
mixed media on hand-cut 300gsm paper
250 x 175mm
Exhibited in
Thoughtform Shimmer