2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Hopkinson Mossman-1/2/1Hopkinson MossmanSarah HopkinsonDanae MossmanL1/19 Putiki StreetNZ-Auckland 1021T +64 93 580 855M +64 21 244 2243info@hopkinsonmossman.comwww.hopkinsonmossman.comShown at LISTE:Ruth Buchanan,1979, NZ/DEMilli Jannides, 1986, NZ/UKKate Newby, 1979, NZOther Artists of the Gallery:Nick Austin, NZAndrew Barber, NZFiona Connor, NZ/USDaniel Malone, NZ/PLNicholas Mangan, AUDane Mitchell, NZTahi Moore, NZPeter Robinson, NZLuke Willis Thompson, NZRuth BuchananOn or within ascenario, 2013Installation view:Hopkinson Cundy,AucklandMilli JannidesOther people’swindows, 2012Oil on linen31 × 38 cmKate NewbyAll parts. All thetime, (detail), 2012Ceramic and foundobjects, ink on paperDimensions vary94 / 95Ruth Buchanan constructs material spacesthat investigate modes of communicationand the parameters of artistic action.Buchanan’s process often begins in thearchive where encounters with particularsites, methods of display and artistic process,and the sensations of thinking or reading,are channeled into spatial propositions.The resulting works have been interpretedas maps or diagrams of cognitive function,and her installations described as metaphorsfor the (artist’s) brain. In recent workBuchanan has borrowed and abstractedboth informational structures (museumvitrines, library noticeboards, teaching aids)and domestic forms (curtains, chairs)to reflect on the relationship and exchangebetween material surfaces and modesof display.Milli Jannides’ painting practice canbe seen as an ongoing exploration into theways in which the ephemeral nature ofvisual experience can be translated into apicture. Her paintings combine illusionisticforms in complex, at times disorienting,spatial configurations that bear evidenceof the artist’s changes of course,decision-making and doubt. Taken together,the paintings conceive vision as necessarilymediated and utterly subjective and explorehow this condition can be communicatedthrough a sense of touch.Kate Newby’s materials are typicallydrawn from the built environment: primarymaterials (concrete, timber, bricks)and materials associated with inhabitation(carpet, fabric, clay, plants). Newby’s largescale installations subtly divert existingmaterials and spaces from their prescribedfunction to construct series of richtraversable ambiances that serve to bothbring the outside in, and lead the viewerfrom the inside out. Other more intimatelyscaled works (such as sets of small clayrocks and crudely formed ceramic sticks)are directed toward spheres of possibility –nature’s open system, everyday practicesand the vagaries of personal impressionsand emotions.