Acquisitions Sept 03 - Mar 04

Et Al.

The Creative Act

Black announcement board, chaise, small blackboard, audio CD.

Peter Peryer

The Baby

2003

Archival digital print

Hany Armanious (Aust)

Untitled Snake Oil

Steve Carr

Sausage-Icecream-Pacifier-Lip-stick- Acorn-Balloon-Hammer- Bone

2002

Hand blown scientific glass, ed of 5, dimensions variable  

Steve Carr

Tyson

2002

dvd 2m10s

Mladen Bizumic

The Night Shift

2003

Drawing

Chris Heaphy

Stereo (Practice and Value)

2003

Acrylic on canvas

Lauren Lysaght

Mallcontent

2003

mixed media

Mallcontent is the signature work from the exhibition Mallcontent shown at Whitespace, Auckland, NZ. "This work was a result of my discovery of 'deadmalls' - a problem that is now being revealed in the USA. A new Mall is built and the smaller version nearby becomes obselete. These obselete malls are boarded up and start to become literally toxic. There is also no thought given to the fact that these complexes are standing empty and take up vast areas of land...add to this the problem of 'big barn' stores that cut out small enterprises. Apparently there is a move afoot now to invent new ways to reuse these buildings. One suggestion is they become rest homes. This intrigues me, I imagined ending my days at St Lukes ( a large New Zealand shopping mall in Auckland) or similar. (I bags the Prada shop!) Artist statement 2003.

John Reynolds

United States of Anxiety

2003

Wax oil crayon on board 30 x 35 cm

Kathy Temin (Aust)

The Duck Rabbit Problem

1998-2001

Mixed Media, synthetic fur

Christopher Braddock

9 Imprints from the Freshly Worn Series

2003

Silicon rubber variable dimensions, 9 parts

For details of individual parts, go to the Christopher Braddock Gallery of images...click here.

 

Gavin Hipkins

The Host

2003

DVD: 8 mins 39 secs

The video is made up of almost 200 still images that fade into each other at regular internvals. These still images have been taken of individual models made from polystyrene cones. The audio accompaniment consists of a female and male protagonists reading gender-specific names: Teat of Albertine, Teat of arthur". "The Teat prayer" is a Celtic prayer and the names in the video are drawn from a baby name book published at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. The names are old fashioned, and have a colonial ring to them. This sense of yesteryear is counterbalance with the readers' contemporary heavy New Zealand accents... "Religious mantras act as a kind of mnemonic background that allows the mind to empty the self's ego in order to be filled by the divine presence. The repeated mantra is both an imitations and a trace of the thing imitated; it is both to copy a divine order and offer a palpable connection to the aura of the original." From an unpublished catalogue by Gow langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ, to accompany the exhibition Bodylogue.

Patricia Piccinini (Aust)

Waiting for Jennifer

2000

Digital c-type photograph ed 60

Patricia Piccinini (Aust)

Kick Flip Olloe

2001

Digital c-type photograph ed 27/60

Tony de Lautour

Target Eye

2003

acrylic on canvas 43 x 34 framed

Tony de Lautour

Heads

2003

acrylic on canvas 43 x 34 framed

Tony de Lautour

Head

2003

acrylic on canvas

43 x 34 framed

Julian Dashper

Untitled ( 1993)

1993

5 textured drum skins

Francis Upritchard

Untitled

2004

Floor installation: Rug, recycled fur, leather, tennis racket, modelling clay

Rohan Wealleans

Large Carved Tribal Painting No 2

2004

acrylic paint