Upcoming Event

In Silence, Together Apart

Next on:

Hātarei 2 Mei

Saturday 2 May

2026

1:00 PM

Blue Oyster, 16 Dowling Street, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Detail image of installation maquette, featuring white painted toy animals and expanding foam.

Sena Park, installation maquette, 2026.

This event accompanies Sena Park's exhibition When the shelter is needed...

Join us to be together in silence. We will spend time in Sena’s exhibition together without speaking or interacting. Sean Norling will be DJ-ing some music to accompany us along our separate but linked introspective journeys. No registration required, light refreshments provided.

Event accessibility information:
Access to the gallery is via a slope and three steps. A temporary ramp is available for wheeled access.
There is a toilet on-site (not wheelchair accessible).
Cushions, some chairs, and standing/floor space provided.
There will be music playing during this event.
Light refreshments are provided. This is an alcohol free event.
Please contact admin@blueoyster.org.nz with any access questions or requirements, we’d love to have you with us.

Sena Park

Sena Park is a Korean-born New Zealand artist working across painting, mixed media, and installation. Her practice is grounded in analogue, labor-intensive processes, with a focus on material responsiveness and the spatial composition of installations.

Working with familiar references from natural, architectural, and cultural environments, Park reconfigures them into deliberately imperfect and non-functional structures. Her nomadic studio practice shapes each project in response to its environment. Her works prioritise the overall perceptual flow of space.

Park completed an MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2015 and has undertaken residencies in Mongolia, Thailand, China, Japan, and New Zealand.

Sean Norling

Sean Norling (Kāti Waewae, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu, Pākehā).