Past Exhibitions

OverView - Is As: Landscape as Metaphor

25 Oct - 3 Dec 2003

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Exhibition Works

Customary Practice (2003) detail
John Walsh Customary Practice (2003) detail
Clouds - Headland, Island (1998/2003)
Brent Wong Clouds - Headland, Island (1998/2003)
Cloud - Island (1999)
Brent Wong Cloud - Island (1999)
Plantation I
Simon Edwards Plantation I (2003)
Plantation II
Simon Edwards Plantation II (2003)
Broken Cloud
Simon Edwards Broken Cloud (2003)
Genesis II (Purakaunui)
Garry Currin Genesis II (Purakaunui) (2003)
Landfall: Detail of a Journey
Garry Currin Landfall: Detail of a Journey (2003)
Beneath Bowen Falls To Mitre Peak, Fiordland 2000 (printed 2005) No. 13/20
Wayne Barrar Beneath Bowen Falls To Mitre Peak, Fiordland 2000 (printed 2005) No. 13/20
Ohau Riverbed Below Ruataniwha 2002
Wayne Barrar Ohau Riverbed Below Ruataniwha 2002 (2003)
Across Spillway on Ohau Canal 2002 (printed 2003)
Wayne Barrar Across Spillway on Ohau Canal 2002 (printed 2003)
Lava Flow & Rock Pool (2002)
Michael Smither Lava Flow & Rock Pool (2002)
Look Up, Look West From Matakaea (2003)
Peter Cleverley Look Up, Look West From Matakaea (2003)
Look Up, Look West From Waianakarua (2003)
Peter Cleverley Look Up, Look West From Waianakarua (2003)
Sing the Song the Waiata & the Hymn: Songs About the Sea (2000)
Peter Cleverley Sing the Song the Waiata & the Hymn: Songs About the Sea (2000)
Symbiont States Series - The Nature of Nurture #2
Ann Robinson Symbiont States Series - The Nature of Nurture #2 (2004)
Twisted Flax Pods #12 & #13 (2003) detail
Ann Robinson Twisted Flax Pods #12 & #13 (2003) detail
I Am - Socialism, Capitalism (2000)
Nigel Brown I Am - Socialism, Capitalism (2000)
The Role Of The Artist As Arsonist
Nigel Brown The Role Of The Artist As Arsonist (2002)
Red Sea
Nigel Brown Red Sea (2002)
Hergest Ridge (2003) detail
Karl Maughan Hergest Ridge (2003) detail
Hergest Croft (2003) detail
Karl Maughan Hergest Croft (2003) detail
Kew (2003) detail
Karl Maughan Kew (2003) detail
Regeneration
Jim Wheeler Regeneration (2002)
Waikaro
Stanley Palmer Waikaro (2003)
Mapoutahi
Scott McFarlane Mapoutahi (2003)
Potato Point
Scott McFarlane Potato Point (2003)
Taiaroa Head
Scott McFarlane Taiaroa Head (2003)
Lake Aviemore (2003)
Michael Hight Lake Aviemore (2003)
Motutapu River Wanaka (2003)
Michael Hight Motutapu River Wanaka (2003)
Sonora Creek Cromwell
Michael Hight Sonora Creek Cromwell (2003)
Quiet Road I
Elizabeth Rees Quiet Road I (2003)
Quiet Road II
Elizabeth Rees Quiet Road II (2003)
Quiet Road III
Elizabeth Rees Quiet Road III (2003)
For History Is A Pattern Of Timeless Moments
Peter James Smith For History Is A Pattern Of Timeless Moments (2003)
Spirits Bay
Peter James Smith Spirits Bay (2003)
As The Light Falls On The Arthur River
Peter James Smith As The Light Falls On The Arthur River (2003)
Family Life, Puriri Drive II (2003)
Mary McIntyre Family Life, Puriri Drive II (2003)
Family Life, Puriri Drive I (2003)
Mary McIntyre Family Life, Puriri Drive I (2003)
Family Life, Puriri Drive III (2003)
Mary McIntyre Family Life, Puriri Drive III (2003)

Exhibition Text

OverView is a major survey of contemporary New Zealand art in three parts.

The first exhibition entitled Is As: Landscape as Metaphor continues until December 3.
In the hands of our major painters, sculptors and glass artists the New Zealand landscape is revealed in layered detail, subject focus and meaning. The landscape carries messages, points of view. Landscape has become immediate, living and close to hand. It also now has a varying scale and complexity of function. It can be external and internal. It can be backyard, mountaintop, islands in the sun, a tree growing, a garden, a lake, and the detail of a rock pool.

This nationally significant exhibition has a number of internal dialogues, including the state of our environment; cultural presence and memory in the landscape; landscape as architecture, signifier, and object of the sublime. Landscape as a reality and spiritual force in New Zealand has long moved on from the debate of man alone, moved from subjugation and confrontation to participation, observation and companionship as well.

Landscape is now being used by our artists as a metaphor about who and what we are just as much as of who and what the landscape is.