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Toi Pōneke exhibition - As A Lattice

6 July 2015

Toi Pōneke exhibition - As A Lattice


When Hannah Eames was eight, she went to a nursery with her mother to choose trees to plant on their family’s farm. They grew tall outside of her bedroom in a dark cluster – a mark of happenings and activities. Some of the family pets were buried around the trees.

15 years later, she chain sawed them down and carved them into art pieces.

These macrocarpa sculptures stand rekindled into large limb-like forms in the Toi Pōneke exhibition As A Lattice. It’s an extensive body of work – ranging from glossy aluminium castings, the sound of amplified body movements and an alien-like wall projection.

“It is familiar, yet unnerving to the viewer. It’s a melting pot of familiar connotations and alien differences,” says Hannah.

She uses both natural and fabricated heavy materials in the exhibition. The visitor will be able to walk amongst a tall forest-like environment surrounded by formations in the dimly lit room.

Hannah worked for days stacking 300kgs of clay into two metre mounds, and months co-producing hyper-realistic animations – fifteen years of sentimental investment, turned hard labour.

Seeing all of this in one room is satisfying for Hannah

“You don’t really realise how much work you have done, until it is all put together. I make every component separately in a different place, so each one contributes a unique energy to the installation. When I look at each piece, I remember exactly how I felt at the time I was chiselling away, or layering it up.”

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Hannah attended the Massey University College of Creative arts attaining first-class honours in Fine Arts, graduating this year in May. She has also studied at The University of The West of England in 2012. After exhibiting in two group shows, As A Lattice is her first solo exhibition.

As a Lattice opens at 5.30pm this Thursday, 10 July at Toi Pōneke Gallery, 61 Abel Tasman Street.

Her artist website is www.hannahhallameames.com


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