In the Darkside Gallery: Like the uncontrollable unfolding of conversatition meandering, pacing, interrupted, McInytre's installation presents the multiplicity of story telling, recounting and interpretation.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 6 Mei -
Mane 31 Māehe
Tuesday 6 May -
Monday 31 March
2008
Subverting mainstream oral history’s tendency to focus on the big events in life (birth, death, marriage and war), McIntrye's work How to Draw Trees sculpturally addresses the unheard, and commonplace tales of the lives of those around her. Starting with the premise ‘tell me a story’McIntyre's work sees her take on the role of story teller, re-imaging tales from her own perspective with low-tech, reclaimed materials. Multiple, overlapping narratives are forced into co-existence revealing both their content and structure. Like the uncontrollable unfolding of conversatition meandering, pacing, interrupted, McInytre's installation presents the multiplicity of story telling, recounting and interpretation.
"The stories I love come at their subject matter sideways. Full of ambiguity and complication these are stories of lives that resist homogenisation. I am interested in exploring the so-called minor details of people’s lives- the personal and incidental elements that are likely to be forgotten or considered insignificant. I seek to draw out the inherent life of objects and situations, revealing this as existing in endless variations beyond the limitations of dominant cultural narratives." - Magbh McIntyre 2008
McIntyre is a Christchurch based artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Arts from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology in 2006. Her work had been included in many group shows including Preview: 40 Contemporary New Zealand Artists at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, in 2006 and Common Knowledge at High Street Project, Christchurch in 2006.
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