Pauline Rhodes
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1937
Land Extensums, Banks Peninsula
- 1983
- Photograph
- Gift of the artist, 2000
- 2012/010
Tags: harbors, hills, landscapes (representations), natural landscapes, peninsulas, rock, seas, sticks (object genre)
‘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)
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Pauline Rhodes – Land Extensums, Banks Peninsula
I only have to set a direction towards Horomaka Banks Peninsula, and I feel an energy, a charge. The ritual of a takeaway coffee at Wairewa Little River. A flicker of shadows from the centenary lime trees lining the road at Cooptown. Picking up speed to begin the swinging ascent to the Crater Rim. A rush of air, sweeping up over the summit and along the wide expanse of the Peninsula, hilltops encircling a traveller like comforting arms.