Mary-Louise Browne - The Conversation

28 February - 24 March 2012

You are warmly invited to the opening preview and to meet the artist, Tuesday 28 February 5.30 - 7.30pm.

In this exhibition Mary-Louise Browne continues to reference movies and music in her ongoing investigation of the interaction of language, visual imagery and the creation of meaning.

The title of the exhibition references Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film The Conversation. As the main character, a surveillance expert, is proccupied with intepreting fragments of a conversation recorded in a noisy crowded street, so too Browne presents viewers with words which on the surface are straightforward but in their connotations are ambigous, multi-layered and mobile.

Media as always in Browne’s work is subservient to conceptual purpose and the exhibition includes works in neon, bronze and on mirror.

Browne has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and developed several major public art commissions including the staircase Body to Soul in Wellington’s Botanical Gardens and the granite bench work Byword which runs the length of Lorne Street in Auckland.

If these walls could talk (working drawing), 2012

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The Obstinate Object

We like the title of the City Gallery exhibition opening this week and its allusions to the debates around contemporary art production. We are pleased that the show includes work by BRETT GRAHAM, SHANE MCGRATH, RUTH THOMAS-EDMOND & LISA WALKER – all of whom have work showing in the back gallery this month. We are also pleased to be showing LONNIE HUTCHINSON, for the first time – one of her cut-outs (500 x 300 mm) is pictured below.

Lonnie Hutchinson

Congratulations go to SHANE MCGRATH who, as part of The Obstinate Object has been commissioned to produce a new public art work which will be unveiled on Friday 16 March.
We will put images on our website then.

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ANNE NOBLE in Bitch in Slippers At City Gallery and up next at Bartley + Company Art

Also opening at City Gallery is Bitch in Slippers featuring Anne Noble, Lloyd Jones and Sarah Maxey and work from Noble’s Antarctica series. The title comes from the name of a crane in the Antarctica.

Ice blink, an Antarctic imaginary, Anne Noble’s new book by Clouds Publishing, with an essay by Ian Wedde, will be launched at City Gallery on Wednesday 28 March, the day after her opening here.

Anne Noble at Bartley + Company Art, 27 March - 21 April

Anne Noble, Spoolhenge South Pole, 2009

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Don't miss seeing Pepeha with Sofia Tekela-Smith, Lisa Walker and Areta Wilkinson
Exhibition ends this Saturday 25 February

Pepeha exhibition installation view, 2012

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We look forward to seeing you in the gallery or to hearing that you have visited online.
Best wishes,
Alison and Kate

ENDS

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