Pauline Rhodes
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1937
Land Extensums, Southern Alps
- 1994
- Photograph
- Gift of the artist, 2000
- 762 x 762 x 35mm
- 2012/014
Tags: circles (plane figures), installations (visual works), lakes (bodies of water), landscapes (representations), mountains, natural landscapes
‘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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