Past Exhibition

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.

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.