Helen Reynolds Exhibition in Wellington

Helen Reynolds is known for her intense interest in the processes by which landscapes emerge. In this exhibition she extends this "off-world" and creates a vision of a 'Red Planet'. Helen's canvasses and complex topographical drawings reveal stripped back landscape systems that are like, yet unlike, the landscape systems of Mars. The work follows the processes that have created the incredibly deep chasms, the craters shaped meteorite impacted permafrost and the dunes created by the ferocious, nearly eternal wind storms on Mars.

Helen is a former Teaching Fellow in Landscape Architecture at Victoria University and her blogs on landscape and her art are widely followed both locally and internationally. Her background includes a diverse range of influences including years spent in Asia and degrees in mathematics and Chinese as well as Landscape Architecture and a Master of Design. This diversity combines with a sharp artistic sensibility to create her fresh take on ‘landscape art’. Helen's academic research has focused on the application of complexity theory to landscape design, and she characterises her art as being: "interested in looking at the landscape as the physical evidence of nature’s complex processes, rather than as a romantic view". Her artist's statement can be found at http://www.thistlehall.org.nz/gallery.html

Exhibition Details:

EMERGENT LANDSCAPES: RED PLANET
Helen Reynolds16 - 21 MAY 2011 at Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street, (04) 384 3088. Opening 5.30-8.00pm Monday 16 May, then open Tuesday - Saturday from 10.00am till 6.00pm

www.helenreynolds.co.nz
http://helenreynolds-imageaday.blogspot.com/
http://cyborglandscapes.blogspot.com/

Two of the artworks that will be on display (publication suitable versions available on request):

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