13 - 18 MAY 2013 – THISTLE HALL
CUBA STREET WELLINGTON

SECUNDUM ARTEM | FIONA LEES &
WAKE: NOTES FROM THE EDGELANDS IN 8 PARTS | NICHOLAS HAIG.

OPENING: 5.30pm Monday 13 May.

OPEN: 10.00am - 5.00pm Tuesday - Saturday.

Two exhibitions open at the Thistle Hall Gallery on the 13 of May: Fiona Lees' Secundum Artem and Nicholas Haig's Wake: Notes from the Edgelands in 8 Parts.

Trained both in visual arts and design, and as a pharmacist, Fiona Lees has a unique perspective on the clinical world of hospitals and pharmaceuticals.

Secundum artem, is a pharmaceutical compounding term meaning 'according to the art'. In this exhibition, digital photographs of dispensary-related vessels are combined with arrangements of slip-cast porcelain forms of the same. Framed by the formal tradition of the still life, these two media are used to reveal elements of beauty and humour that exist in the sterility of these working spaces. Secundum artem offers a new 'way of seeing' within the clinical context – that according to the artist.

Nicholas Haig's Wake: Notes from the Edgelands in 8 Parts documents eight outings and walks undertaken in the Nelson region.

This exhibition finds Haig conducting a digressive inquiry into the question or, as yet unspecified, problem of Nelson. Comprised of annotated digital photographs and accompanied by a series of short essays, Haig was prompted by the notions that firstly, 'he does not know his way around,' and secondly, that everything could be, and is, other than it is.

These exhibitions represent some of the work made during their respective year-long NMIT Graduate Residencies at the Refinery Artspace in Nelson.

The residency programme is supported and funded by the Kahurangi Employment Trust and Hamish Fletcher Lawyers.

ENDS