heat transfers | Blue Oyster

Ed Ritchie considers architectural features from the facades of buildings that have housed Blue Oyster over the past two decades. Drawn from memories not measurements, Ritchie's work considers the Blue Oyster archive and incorporates copper, a nod to the material interest of Blue Oyster's previous anniversary exhibitions. Ritchie has developed this work in conversation with the Blue Oyster archive.

Ōtepoti practitioner Ed Ritchie has developed a new work in response to the Blue Oyster archive.

Ed Ritchie considers architectural features from the facades of buildings that have housed Blue Oyster over the past two decades. Drawn from memories not measurements, Ritchie's work considers the Blue Oyster archive and incorporates copper, a nod to the material interest of Blue Oyster's previous anniversary exhibitions. Ritchie has developed this work in conversation with the Blue Oyster archive.

*Heat Transfers*, 2021, Ed Ritchie, Installation view. Photo: Bunty Bou

Heat Transfers, 2021, Ed Ritchie, Installation view. Photo: Bunty Bou

Blue Oyster has been working on digitising, future proofing and revealing the archives, which are now largely deposited at Hocken Collections. The archival efforts of past staff members, interns, and volunteers have assured the safe keeping of ephemera, and this project now looks to uncover both how much we have shifted and surprising ways we have stayed the same.

Throughout the duration of heat transfers there will be archive material present from the first five years of Blue Oyster. This ephemera has been selected by Ritche for its relevance to heat transfers and will be replaced organically throughout the exhibition.

*Heat Transfers*, 2021, Ed Ritchie, Installation view. Archival selection: *30 Feathers Beds*, Emma Kitson,2001
Photo: Bunty Bou

Heat Transfers, 2021, Ed Ritchie, Installation view. Archival selection: 30 Feathers Beds, Emma Kitson,2001
Photo: Bunty Bou

Ed Ritchie

Based in Ōtepoti, Ed Ritchie’s practice is rooted in sculpture and installation. Ritchie’s work considers ideas around thresholds and the built environment as a conductor of the invisible. He completed a BVA (Hons) in 2017 through the Dunedin School of Art and has since become a founder and co-facilitator of the ARI Favour. Recent exhibitions include: Central heating, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2021); heat transfers, Blue Oyster (2021); Lay in Measures with Megan Brady, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space (2021); Hush Swarms, Hot Lunch (2020); and Console Whispers, Blue Oyster (2019).

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