RICHARD ORJIS salt felix

RICHARD ORJIS salt felix

opening: tuesday, 12 september, 5.30 - 7.30pm

artist talk: 7 october, 11am
exhibition: 13 september - 7 october 2017

New work by RICHARD ORJIS will explore the fundamental concept of connection, and how everything can be perceived as intrinsically linked. Through photography and sculpture Orjis opens an aesthetic dialogue with art, nature and sexuality that questions the construction and fragmentation of reality.

Richard Orjis (b. 1979) lives and works in Auckland and completed his Masters at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2006. He has exhibited extensively within local and international in artist-run spaces, private galleries and public institutions. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include: The Apron (Tauranga Art Gallery public project, 2016); Garden Cities of Tomorrow (Melanie Roger Gallery & Sarjeant Gallery, 2015), Home (Corbans Estate Arts Centre, 2014), Walking in Trees (Auckland Council Pop Project, 2014) Richard Orjis: So Give me The Night (Papakura Art Gallery, 2012), of quiet volcanoes (Melanie Roger Gallery, 2012), Fields (McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, 2011) Grass Circle (Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, 2010 - 2012) , Silver Park (High Street Project, Christchurch, 2010) My Empire of Dirt (Roger Williams Contemporary, 2009). He has been included in group exhibitions within New Zealand and internationally and in 2014 was part of a major collaborative exhibition "We are but Dust and Shadow" with Tessa Laird and Tiffany Singh at Melanie Roger Gallery. This was also the year he was the Tylee Cottage Artist in Residence at the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui. This year in 2017 he was the Asia New Zealand Foundation artist in residence at Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia. Orjis' work is held in private and public collections including: the Jenny Gibbs Collection (Auckland), the University of Auckland (Auckland), Auckland Council (Auckland), The Film Archive (Wellington), The Wallace Trust collection (Auckland) and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Collection (Madrid, Spain). His work to date was the subject of a monograph Park in 2012 and he is regularly included in art publications both nationally and internationally including Art New Zealand, Art and Australia and White Fungus.

See also our current exhibition MATT ELLWOOD, "The Germaine Greer Series" at Melanie Roger Gallery till 9 September. Ends at 3pm.

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