New Exhibitions At Roar!

New Exhibitions At Roar!

WHAT: New Exhibitions …
David Brown - Figures with Raised Hands
Dale Copeland – Cabinet of Curiosities
Martin Doyle – Pelts on Heat

WHEN: 26 March – 11 April 2009
WHERE: ROAR! gallery
55 Abel Smith St
Level 1 (above Real Groovy)
WELLINGTON

ROAR! gallery is proud to be showcasing three Artists whose previous lives have fuelled the art work they are creating today.

David Brown, Dale Copeland and Martin Doyle assemble various objects/memories/ visions and moments … urging us to look closer and appreciate the minute details that combine to make a complete picture. They dissect the whole and then recompose the elements to create a new view through a more personal filter.

David Brown - Figures with raised hands

What is it to be human? asks former archaeologist David Brown. “I became an archaeologist because I was interested in this question. It made sense that to understand the present; the past had also to be understood. I became especially interested in ancient stone tool production as you could see how the ancient mind had worked through the processes of making the tool. Some of these tools are so perfectly constructed that they leave you with a sense of wonder and an appreciative connection with the maker and the past.

Some years have passed, and I am now an artist, but still, interested in the same question. And in a way, I now make those stone tools, and allow the interested to gain an insight into my mind. I don’t know if a painting can be read in quite so an exact way, but there are ways of putting a painting together and the end result is essentially what the artists mind has rested on.”

Martin Doyle – Pelts on Heat

Martin Doyle has been breathing new life into the towering structures of central Wellington by reconstructing the buildings via his emotional memory of its appearance rather than its exact physical composition.

“I’m taking the image of the “pelt’ (exterior appearance) of the building and nailing it to my canvas, not to recreate its appearance exactly but to represent my sense or feelings about their (the buildings) existence”.

Doyle’s signature mix of paint, ink and collage gives the buildings layers, depth and a unique personality in a 2D format that, according to Martin, the original inert 3D structure does not have.

Dale Copeland – Cabinet of Curiosities

At age 43, Dale gave up teaching to pursue art. Previously, Dale was doing research into Carbon Fibre, then teaching Maths, Physics and Computing in Taranaki and was later offered a Massey Doctoral Scholarship for Ph.D. in Chaos Theory.

Now, she lives at Puniho, has a 3rd Dan black belt in Taekwon-Do and works in collage, jewellery, book-making, photography, fabric art and sculpture. Her favoured medium is assemblage, or box art i.e. careful constructions of discarded, but treasured objects. “I find junk, see treasure. I keep things for years until they find their place.”

Dale is a maker who is very familiar with the joy and the necessity of making, of creating.

ROAR! gallery is a vibrant gallery which aims to support and promote Outsider Art. Its focus is not to define this term but to be open to those who feel connected to an art making approach which is unique, honest, compelling and about a persons total connection with their creativity, uninfluenced by external restrictions and conventions. We're proud to bring you this thrilling combination of talent and awareness.

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