ArtBeat
Holding a progressive series of exhibitions from 2018, Percipience is an encounter with works realised in an impressive and varied range of materials, from acrylic on canvas to pit-fired clays in a group exhibition that references and considers home, memory, and intricacies of the environment, bringing ten artists together, sharing their knowledge and response to the critiques of each other’s practice.
Sarah Anderson responds to “memento mori”, a reminder that we will all eventually die, and photographer, Janneth Gil, considers ideas about our dual citizenship “in the kingdoms of the well and the sick”. Karen Greenslade’s Drift, responds to nature and estuaries as “a metaphor for endless possibility and change”, while Lee Harper’s materials and subjects bring together images about, connectiveness and the possibilities of seeing and understanding with clarity.
Viv Kepes celebrates Nature’s regeneration and the beauty of endangered species, and Stephanie McEwin’s painterly figures and modernist retro -landscapes acknowledge that discarded objects have other lives. Mark Soltero’s digital images bridge and connect past and present realities and Nicola Thorne’s photographs document and celebrate the vastness of the landscape, and rugged contours of the hardy Muehlenbeckia plant.
Mi Kyung Jang excavates humanity’s intricate relationships with Nature and global challenges of our unchecked human desires, and Susanne van Tuinen’s wall relief sculptures/paintings evokes a sense of reminiscent of life's cyclical nature.
DETAILS
Art Associates Aotearoa, Percipience
Chambers Art Gallery
80 Durham Street, Sydenham
8 – 25 May
IMAGES: Nicola Thorne, Kaitōrete Scenic Reserve 30 March 2024, photograph, 250 x 445mm