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The Shinrin – Yoku Experience
Forest bathing captured on used brown paper
Alison Horn 2024
17 June – 12 July 2024
The art I have produced for this exhibition is in part due to my thrifty nature, love of the outdoors & the feelings of peacefulness I experience when I fully immerse myself in the environment. There is also great enjoyment in the challenge to capture what I see and express what I feel, thru this medium. While I am doing this I also see & collect rubbish, later trying to find an appropriate place for it to be reused or recycled or use it myself & that is how Works on Used Brown Paper began. What I like about used brown paper is that it comes with a bit of history, usually it’s creased, perhaps a bit stained & ready for a second life rather than becoming something to be got rid of.
Opening Celebration 5.30pm tonight Monday 17th June
In Our Hands
Sue Scobie 2024
17 June – 12 July 2024
“I was once asked whether I ever reflected on the impacts of climate change when making my ceramic work. A decade ago, the answer was ‘never’, now the visible impacts at some of my favourite coastal places are firmly embedded in my mind, particularly the loss of kelp forests due to marine heatwaves. There are also significant changes happening which we currently do not see due to the microscopic nature of those effects.”
The work in this exhibition is intended to encourage viewers to look closely at what is in front of them, to reflect on what’s happening in the wider environment, and how we are responding to it, or not..
Opening Celebration tonight 5.30pm 17th June
Sue will be in the gallery 10am – 12pm Saturday 22 June if anyone would like to handle some of the work, or just have an informal chat.
Te Waipounamu
Abstract Landscapes/Streetscapes
Glenn Cormier 2024
17 June – 12 July 2024
Opening Celebration tonight 5.30pm Monday 17th June
Landscape photography, once a quiet refuge for contemplation, has become a fast food outlet, a place for a snack of quick bites, instead of a slow luxurious meal.
Considering this evolution, and over 150 years of history, developing an individual language in Landscape Photography is challenging.
The natural world explored in the landscape portfolio serves as a backdrop for evidence of man’s intrusion into that world. Evidence in the form of light trails painting the remote night sky. Evidence in the form of plastic, neon, steel and asphalt. These unnatural materials manifest their outsized complicity in man’s assertion: I am here.
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