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Kristin Perrett, Natasha Cantwell, Mark Rayner
11 - 23 August 2010
Preview: Tuesday 10 August, 6-8pm |
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Kristin Perrett is interested in many facets of popular culture. In her latest work, Perrett has carefully crafted a series of fabric appliqué dolls depicting three of the iconic 16th century Tudors. With a playful use of unconventional media, Perrett highlights the absurdities of fiction and the mutability of history. |
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Natasha Cantwell’s new work explores the uncanny; the unsettling feeling of experiencing the familiar and the strange at once. This can permeate anything that is simultaneously its own opposite, such as the real and unreal or the living and non-living. Cantwell’s unoccupied rooms display the kitsch residues of erstwhile inhabitants; a comment, perhaps, on the propensity New Zealanders have for destroying their surroundings in order to define their own spaces. |
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Largely self taught, Mark Rayner has been working in ceramics since 2003, producing works for local and national exhibitions during this time. Mark’s new series of ceramic and mixed media sculptures was inspired by a visit to ‘Opossumworld’ in Napier. Rayner’s Opossums are anthropomorphised into abject, mutated ‘animal-people’, destined to be outcasts even in their own strange context. |
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Special thanks to Invivo Wines |
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