
'Day of the Dead'
Day of the Dead - 15 New Zealand Artists on Mortality.
I produced and co-curated this show in Oct - Nov 2013 at Refinery Artspace, Nelson, and designed and published a 44 page book to document the exhibition and some of the writing that accompanied it.
Images by Anika Walker, except Craig Potton’s image (artist’s own).

Lianne Edwards
The Hearing Bones (2012)
Fish otolith (Hoki, Macruronus novaezelandiae.)

Installation view.
Mark Curtis
For the love of God - Gimme head (2007)
Anatomical skull encrusted in holographic silver glitter and mounted in a vitrine.
Glitter Skulls (2012)
Acrylic and glitter on plaster

Craig Potton
Otago fence post (1983)
Lamda print

Mark Curtis
Glitter Skulls (2012)
Acrylic and glitter on plaster

Catharine Hodson
Nature Morte: Canards et Citron (2012)
Bird wings (various exotic and indigenous birds), picture frames, cords, tacks, lemon

Catharine Hodson
Nature Morte: Canards et Citron (2012)
Bird wings (various exotic and indigenous birds), picture frames, cords, tacks, lemon
(detail)

Catharine Hodson
Nature Morte: Canards et Citron (2012)
Bird wings (various exotic and indigenous birds), picture frames, cords, tacks, lemon
(detail)

Salina Sly
Untitled (2012)
4 silver gelatin photographs, framed

Candy Clarke
U Are Here (2012) and I Am Not Here II (2012)
Acrylic paint on perspex

Andy McCubbin
The Creationist (2009)
Acrylic on canvas

Kay van Dyk
Loss (2011-2012)
Mixed media, including repurposed floristry items, wood, lead, recycled fishing equipment, copper, silver, enamel, plastic.

Gallery view showing work by (from L to R):
Kay van Dyk, Sally Papps and Andrea Chandler.

Andrea Chandler
Recoil (2008)
Glass beads, hand-stitched onto woollen “army” blanket, electric flex, light bulb

Andrea Chandler
Recoil (2008)
Glass beads, hand-stitched onto woollen “army” blanket, electric flex, light bulb
(detail)

Alida Harris
At Dawn (2010)
Framed inkjet print, and
Ghost Bull (2010)
Cased photographs: gelatin silver print and colour photocopier print

Jacqueline Aust
Impending Mark (2012)
Photogravure etching

Anthony Genet
Born of stone, wood and sand (2012)
Blown soda lime glass
(detail)

Gallery view showing works by:
Andy Clover and Tomas Richards

Andy Clover
You were born and you will die (2012)
Illuminated lightbox, formed acrylic, celuka, electrics, vinyl

Gallery view

Gallery view