Past Event

Rātapu 2 Āperira

Sunday 2 April

2017

Blue Oyster Art Project Space

Black and white image with circular shape in middle — Becky Richards, To watch, with your mind’s eye, the world floating quiet, 2017

Sunday 2 April, 11am – 4pm

Becky Richards and Blue Oyster seek interested contributors to enable the generation of fresh, round forms and thoughts. You are warmly invited to attend an open workshop, made up of a simple exercise focusing on organic roundness, and its intrinsic appeal. The day will consist of a tactile exercise and reflection upon spherical forms; those in our daily beat, of our own creation and those that are emergent from nature.

Drawing techniques from the traditional Japanese craft of Hikaru Dorodango (shining mudballs), contributors will be invited to create spherical forms using a combination of soil, clay-slip, sand, water and other organic ingredients. The resultant spheres will inhabit Blue Oyster for the duration of the exhibition To watch, with your mind’s eye, the world floating quiet. Following the exhibition period, they may be taken home or given away.

Becky Richards is a Christchurch born artist, based in Auckland and is currently undertaking her Masters at Elam School of Fine Arts. Favouring analog, tactile processes and natural materials, Richards seeks to describe and encourage a close and curious engagement with the organic world. Having been largely quiet recently, Richards’ previous exhibitions include: Three Nights in the desert, C3 Contemporary Artspace, 2013 (solo); Temple of shapes, Seventh Gallery, 2013 (group); Domestos, Tinning St Gallery, 2014 (solo); The wee shocial, Christchurch Exchange, 2015 (group).

To watch, with your mind’s eye, the world floating quiet (2017), Call for co-creators workshop with Becky Richards. Photo: Daegan Wells

To watch, with your mind’s eye, the world floating quiet (2017), Call for co-creators workshop with Becky Richards. Photo: Daegan Wells

Becky Richards

Becky Richards is a Christchurch born artist, based in Auckland and is currently undertaking her MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts. Favouring analog, tactile processes and natural materials, Richards seeks to describe and encourage a close and curious engagement with the organic world. She is interested in how such engagement can induce energetic, cognitive and emotional changes of state in humans; focusing on rhythms of weather, seasons, botanical presence, elemental flux, interconnectivity and the liveliness of organic matter.

She looks for simple activities, ways of thinking, and states of being that can help generate balance and well-being, particularly in increasingly screen-oriented, digitally-saturated societies. Richards’ previous exhibitions include; Three Nights in the desert, C3 Contemporary Artspace, 2013 (solo); Temple of shapes, Seventh Gallery, 2013 (group); Domestos, Tinning St Gallery, 2014 (solo); The wee shocial, Christchurch Exchange, 2015 (group).

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