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Collection
Pauline Rhodes Land Extensums, Banks Peninsula
Picturing the Peninsula, 21 April - 22 July 2007
There are two aspects to Pauline Rhodes’ sculptural practice, ‘Intensums’ – often chaotic and intensely installed indoor installations and ‘Extensums’ – where she places materials such as dyed silk within the natural landscape. This example of her ‘Extensum’ practice highlights the transitory, impermanent nature of her temporary installations, the artist interacts with the environment for a fleeting moment through the placement of floating material discs within the rock pool.
An important aspect of Pauline Rhodes art often involves temporarily introducing materials to the natural environment. She has been working on Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills since the early 1970s and is continually inspired by the regions unique landscape.
Collection
Pauline Rhodes Land Extensums, Banks Peninsula
‘Extensums’ are the temporary sculptural works Pauline Rhodes constructs in her local landscape. After documenting them with a photograph, she quickly dismantles them to leave no trace.
Pauline has worked in this way in Te Poho-o-Tamatea The Port Hills and across Horomaka Banks Peninsula since the early 1970s, developing a close and nuanced relationship with the whenua. She works alone, using simple, lightweight materials to activate the distinct and changing energies of the landscape, which becomes a dynamic and recurrent participant in her sculptures, rather than a passive backdrop.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
