Primary Referents
Primary Referents
9th July – 10th August 2007.
An exhibition exploring the base areas of inquiry in
the art of the participating artists - tutors from the
Manukau School of Visual Arts, Manukau Technical Institute.
Facilitated by: Chris Mules, Fear Brampton, Geoff Tune
Designers: Lydia Elliot, Mark McClean
E- North is proud to present Primary Referents’, an
exhibition which explores the base areas of inquiry in the
art of the participating artists - a show and tell
exhibition which offers a glimpse of what lies at the base
of the artists’ practice – the primary subjects, images,
themes, issues, visual concerns and/or contexts, which have
driven artistic expression. As such the exhibition is
intended to offer a space for the re-examination of the
well-springs of personal practice; for the audience a
glimpse into the interior spaces of head and heart. The
exhibition offers too, potentially, a cohering perspective
on the interconnections within an artist’s practice. The
theme foregrounds a snapshot–like diversity of
individualism within community.
Steve Moore, Glimmer
series, 2007, Copper and Titanium .
Primary Referents is
also intended as a glace at the microcosm of the (MSVA)
visual arts community’s visual cultural referents in this
place and this time. The participating artists living and
working in Auckland, Aotearoa - New Zealand’s most
culturally diverse city (and working in Otara, South
Auckland) incorporated local and international, rural and
urban, cultural and ethnic elements intending to reflect the
confluence of factors which are shaping contemporary New
Zealand life, identity and psyche.
Fear Brampton, Wise,
2007, digital print. ( Fear is originally from the
North).
Artists include:
Martin Ball, Fear Brampton,
Luke Bell-Booth, Eldon Booth, Deborah Crowe, John Collie,
Frances Hansen, Sally Hollis-McLeod, Paul Johnston, Tessa
Laird, Steve Lovett, Mark McClean, Phil McKibbin, Emma
McLellen, Ross Malcolm, Alex Monteith, Steve Moore, Chris
Mules, Bill Riley, Louise Stevenson and Geoff Tune.
ends