Silk and Lace were chosen because of their significance in the lineage of anniversary presents: the thirteenth year requires a gift of silk or lace.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 10 Āperira -
Hātarei 12 Mei
Tuesday 10 April -
Saturday 12 May
2012
Image: Jay Hutchinson, I Thought You Loved Me Too, 2012.
The Blue Oyster Art Project Space turns 13 this year and to celebrate we have invited eight artists from around New Zealand to reflect on its history in the Upper Gallery and Darkside Gallery. As Ali Bramwell wrote in her article ‘Unstable Institutional Memory: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster,’ our recollection of events, exhibitions and people associated with the Blue Oyster is created collectively, and is therefore patchy - filled with half-truths and embellishments, most of which are unintentional.
The exhibition features works by Darcell Apelu, Emma Febvre-Richards, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Jay Hutchinson, Lonnie Hutchinson, Motoko Kikkawa, Sam Ovens, and Jill Sorensen. These eight artists were chosen because their practices intersect with Silk and Lace in one way or another. The artists were asked to go through the Blue Oyster’s archives and find a work, an exhibition, or an artist that appealed to them in some way, they were then asked to re-imagine the work through the filter of their own practice. This rather loose curatorial vision allowed even more room for disruptively productive slippages to occur around the interpretation and re-presentation of historical exhibitions.
Saturday 5 May: Panel discussion 'Enacting Social Memory through Textiles' with: Angela Gardiner, Jay Hutchinson, Dr Natalie Smith, chaired by Victoria Bell.
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Presented alongside Desi Leversage After All
Image: Motoko Kikkawa, Rice Lace, Photographic print, 2012.
Image: Lonnie Hutchinson, Frocking, Wood, glass, builders paper, paint, and acrylic, 2012.
Image: Emma Febvre-Richards, Dentelle, Laser cut paper and lightboxes, 2012.
Image: Emma Febvre-Richards, Dentelle, Laser cut paper and lightboxes, 2012.
Image: Darcell Apelu, Anxiety, Cotton and spray adhesive, 2012.
Image: All Sam Ovens. Clockwise from top left:
Green Hell, Self-Induced Bondage, The Weight, Action Man, Slimey Member, Protein Princess, The Devil’s Work, Saddle Up, All acrylic silkscreen print on cotton tshirt, 2012.
Image: Jill Sorensen, Flower Borden Pattern 1, Icing sugar, 2012.
Image: Jamie Hanton (curator), Silk and Lace: 13th Anniversary Gifts, Installation view, 2012.
Foreground: Jacquelyn Greenbank, Ghost Fart, Beading, wool, and cardboard, 2012.
Background left: Motoko Kikkawa, Rice Lace, Photographic print, 2012.
Background right: Darcell Apelu, Anxiety, Cotton and spray adhesive, 2012.
Image: Jamie Hanton (curator), Silk and Lace: 13th Anniversary Gifts, Installation view, 2012.
Image: Motoko Kikkawa, Rice Lace, Photographic print, 2012.
Image: Lonnie Hutchinson, Frocking, Wood, glass, builders paper, paint, and acrylic, 2012.
Image: Emma Febvre-Richards, Dentelle, Laser cut paper and lightboxes, 2012.
Image: Emma Febvre-Richards, Dentelle, Laser cut paper and lightboxes, 2012.
Image: Darcell Apelu, Anxiety, Cotton and spray adhesive, 2012.
Image: All Sam Ovens. Clockwise from top left:
Green Hell, Self-Induced Bondage, The Weight, Action Man, Slimey Member, Protein Princess, The Devil’s Work, Saddle Up, All acrylic silkscreen print on cotton tshirt, 2012.
Image: Jill Sorensen, Flower Borden Pattern 1, Icing sugar, 2012.
Image: Jamie Hanton (curator), Silk and Lace: 13th Anniversary Gifts, Installation view, 2012.
Foreground: Jacquelyn Greenbank, Ghost Fart, Beading, wool, and cardboard, 2012.
Background left: Motoko Kikkawa, Rice Lace, Photographic print, 2012.
Background right: Darcell Apelu, Anxiety, Cotton and spray adhesive, 2012.
Image: Jamie Hanton (curator), Silk and Lace: 13th Anniversary Gifts, Installation view, 2012.
Jay Hutchinson
Jay Hutchinson is a Ōtepoti Dunedin-based artist with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art (2008). He has exhibited through Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and China. Recent exhibitions include Loosely based on a series of events that never actually happened including a conversation and an argument with my sister circa 1988, Eskdale Gallery, 2018; Across from the court, on the way to the mall, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017; Turn left at the end of the drive, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2016; On The Way To Work, Olga, 2019; the archaeology of the discarded, forgotten and thrown away, The Suter Art Gallery, 2019.
Motoko Kikkawa
Originally from Tokyo, Motoko Kikkawa has lived in Dunedin since 2004. She has attended Dunedin School of Art and works daily from a studio in Allbell Chambers. Currently, Kikkawa has a solo exhibition, Current Surfer at Dirt Gallery, Wellington. Kikkawa was involved in several solo and group exhibitions in Dunedin, including: Shortsighted Girl’s Very Thick Wall (2017), Unacceptable Archaeologies (2011), Always there is something behind at Inge Doesburg, Dunedin (2010), and Blue Oyster Performance Series (2010). Recent group exhibitions include: Never an Answer – 12 Abstract Painters at The Vivian, Auckland, 2018, Forms of Perception at PG gallery 192, Christchurch, 2018, and Traces at Tacit Gallery, Hamilton, 2018, New Perspectives at Artspace Auckland (2016), (dis)placement at Fresh and Fruity Gallery Dunedin (2015), and iD2K16 at Blue Oyster (2015). Sound-wise, Kikkawa is a past resident of None Gallery and has played solo and in collaboration at The Audio Foundation Auckland, The Auricle Christchurch and regularly at various independent events such as Lines of Flight.
Jill Sorensen
Jill Sorensen completed her undergraduate studies in 1991 at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia and gained an MFA (First Class Hons) at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2002. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.
Darcell Apelu
Emma Febvre-Richards
Jacquelyn Greenbank
Lonnie Hutchinson
Sam Ovens
Jamie Hanton