Toi Whakatipu Mid-Year Graduate Showcase 2025 features graduate projects from across graphic, digital, product, interaction, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and moving image.
Painting With Object Series 2025 – Graduate show 2025
Working across objet trouvè and painting, I am interested in scarcity and specificity, the tension of the spaces between objects, and the signs of human-use embedded in patina.
Reimagining each object with consideration for the visually available history, I use the objects “as found”, embracing the tactile nature of the desaturated palette and textures embedded by time, human-use, and the elements. Sometimes adding marks but not manufacturing patina.
Strategies I employ for constructing these works include hoarding, sifting, sorting, including and excluding.
Each material or painting is placed into compositions according to an intuitive urge, a somatic process bringing together a meeting and moment of tension between two things, and a creation of space between them.
Precipice-dwelling moments of making allow each iteration to be unique and respond to the site.
Surface becomes gesture, and loose painterly forms emerge from the compositions and speak directly to the small textured paintings which inhabit the works as integral companion pieces.
One informing the next in a quiet feedback loop.
Also exhibiting at the graduate show for the BDCA mid 2025 Louise Evans, Anne Ah Sam, Tevan Wharepouri, Bella Rose, Mara Szekely, and Samantha Waddell.
