Sonja van Kerkhoff presents offsite project Caravan from Istanbul, Dunedin. A line of elephants from the Octagon to the Blue Oyster.
Past Exhibition
Wenerei 7 Tīhema
Wednesday 7 December
2011
A long line of origami elephants travel from the Octagon (where OCCUPY protesters reside) to the Blue Oyster Project Art Space, in Moray Place. Constructed from ethnic language newspapers collected from countries she has visited, Sonja Van Kerkhoff graduated from the Dunedin School of Art in 1982 and previously lived in Dunedin from 1980-89. She has been exhibiting installations, sculpture and performance art nationally and internationally since the mid-1980s.
Artist talk Tuesday 6 December 2011: "Art as a Form of Narrative: Some Recent Installations, Performances and Interactive Artworks" Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff
Presented alongside Nicola Hansby A Collection of Still Lifes, Kate Fitzharris Walk and Rose McLeod Memory and Fabric. These exhibitions, which all explore the connections between art and memory.
