Justene Williams She Came Over Singing Like a Drainpipe Shaking Spoon Infused Mixer 2011. Digital video. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Justene Williams She Came Over Singing Like a Drainpipe Shaking Spoon Infused Mixer 2011. Digital video. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
This exhibition is now closed
Australian artist Justene Williams uses performance and ephemeral materials to produce a sensory overload of shapes, patterns and colours in the vibrantly theatrical video work.
Australian artist Justene Williams embraces outmoded and obsolete video equipment in the production of her exuberant video work. Her highly coloured abstract set designs create a sensory overload of shapes, patterns from ephemeral materials such as cardboard, paper and found objects. It is within these settings that Williams films herself and others performing in equally colourful costumes, designed by the artist, that often blend into the backdrop. The vibrant theatricality of her video work conjures up impressions of early twentieth-century avant-garde movements such as Futurism, Dadaism and the stage and costume designs of the legendary Russian modernists Goncharova and Larionov.
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Date:
8 August 2012 – 28 February 2013 -
Curator:
Justin Paton -
Exhibition number:
909 -
Part of
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Round up
Life has been very hectic here at Christchurch Art Gallery over the past few weeks so here's a quick round up of our latest Outer Spaces offerings.
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We're gonna find out what it is all about.'
JJ Cale got it about right.
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Last chance to view the Holloway Press exhibition at Central Library Peterborough this week so if you are in the neighbourhood and like beautifully printed, designed and hand-crafted books then make sure you head along.
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Christchurch Art Gallery is excited to be working with Wellington-based artist Sian Torrington on a site-specific sculptural installation that will combine ideas, images and materials that relate to living in Christchurch now.
See below for a message from Sian to find out how you can get involved.
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The inner binding now on display at the library
If you've not been down to the Central Library Peterborough yet now's a good time to do it.
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We're pretty pleased with what we're achieving with our Outer Spaces programme, but it's always good to see what else is out there. And I do mean 'out there'...
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When we asked Tony de Lautour to produce a new work for the Bunker—the name Gallery staff give to the small, square elevator building at the front of the forecourt on Montreal Street—he proposed a paint scheme inspired by Dazzle camouflage. Associated with the geometric near-abstraction of the vorticist movement, Dazzle was developed by British and American artists during the First World War to disguise shipping. It was a monumental form of camouflage that aimed not to hide the ship but to break up its mass visually and confuse enemies about its speed and direction. In a time before radar and sonar were developed, Dazzle was designed to disorientate German U-boat commanders looking through their periscopes, and protect the merchant fleets.
Senior curator Lara Strongman spoke with Tony de Lautour in late January 2016.
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