Exhibitions
Events
On display
Felicity Milburn on Pauline Rhodes: Blue Mind
Pauline Rhodes Hillside 2020. Courtesy of the artist
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Join Curator Felicity Milburn for a talk on the captivating practice of Pauline Rhodes and her new project for the Gallery.
Blue Mind involves a fascinating spectrum of materials foraged by this major Ōtautahi artist over time, from kelp to cloth to stained wood and glass. Through the colour blue as a refrain – the blue of the sky, the planet, emotions, of cool water – the artist produces a multitude of effects to spark the imagination. Rhodes’s practice is characterised by ephemerality and impermanence, transformation and found materials, process and site.
Related
Exhibition
Pauline Rhodes: Blue Mind
7 March 2021
An immersive and open-ended sculptural response to colour and space.
Exhibition
Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania
3 July 2022
Experience the Gallery’s collection from the perspective of our place in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean.
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 Untitled (Process: Break Boundaries Cut Through)
These works on paper exist as traces of temporary interventions that prominent Ōtautahi artist Pauline Rhodes has made at different times in the landscape. Here, rust stains paper, interacting with marks made with graphite that suggest movement through space. Rhodes responds directly to the landscape, to points where land and sea meet. Her object is not to produce permanent works of art, but to record the traces of her activity, making and unmaking sculpture in specific places. The making of the work is the product of an intimate and intense habitation of space, in order to gain a new understanding of the landscape and what it means to be a ‘consciousness’ in motion within it.
(Te Wheke, 2020)