Past Exhibition

Hātarei 25 Pēpuere -
Hātarei 15 Āperira

Saturday 25 February -
Saturday 15 April

2023

Warm up, work out and warm down with The Blue Oyster Artist Run Gym, a combined games hall, recreation center, gym and gallery, purpose-designed to meet all of your arts-workout needs.

Warm up and practice social climbing with the artist run gym’s bright and alluring climbing wall.

Enter the chaos of the charcoal archery range, draw your bow, find your target, and then fire into the unknown.

Attune your focus and aspirations with a guided funding meditation, before working and burning out with an art-grind spin class.

Now, warm down, decompress as you piece together speculative poetry in E-Kare’s digital game.

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Anna-Marie Mirfin with collaborators, **Climbing Wall**, Glazed Stoneware Grips, 2023.* Photo: Lindsey de Roos

*Anna-Marie Mirfin in collaboration with Alex Huber, Alison Elliot, Allie Pine Pending, Caitlin Lester, Catherine Mirfin, Elayna Jo Amezcua, Ellie Moore, Emi Sharma, Hannah Ström, Harrison Freeth, Jeannie Corona, Jenny Hjertquist, Jessica Millar, Liberty Van Voorthuysen, Lindsey de Roos, Lucy Hill, Madeleine Child, Philip Mirfin, Sarah Auckram, Sequoia Cunningham, Simon Palenski, Stephanie Jensen, Taarn Scott, Tess Wing and Zachariah Harrison.

Installation view, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Samantha Mitchell, **Future Island** Single channel digital video, yoga, mat, aroma diffuser, arts sector funding application excerpts, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Samantha Mitchell, **Spin for Success: A practical roadmap for those committed to a career in the arts**, Single channel digital video, exercycle, arts sector funding application excerpts, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Harrison Freeth, **Aim to Miss**, Charcoal, Copper, Ink on Watercolour Paper, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

E-Kare, **Point-and-Click Adventure Game**, p5.js, web browser, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Anna-Marie Mirfin with collaborators, Climbing Wall, Glazed Stoneware Grips, 2023.* Photo: Lindsey de Roos

*Anna-Marie Mirfin in collaboration with Alex Huber, Alison Elliot, Allie Pine Pending, Caitlin Lester, Catherine Mirfin, Elayna Jo Amezcua, Ellie Moore, Emi Sharma, Hannah Ström, Harrison Freeth, Jeannie Corona, Jenny Hjertquist, Jessica Millar, Liberty Van Voorthuysen, Lindsey de Roos, Lucy Hill, Madeleine Child, Philip Mirfin, Sarah Auckram, Sequoia Cunningham, Simon Palenski, Stephanie Jensen, Taarn Scott, Tess Wing and Zachariah Harrison.

Anna-Marie Mirfin with collaborators, Climbing Wall, Glazed Stoneware Grips, 2023.* Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Installation view, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Samantha Mitchell, Future Island Single channel digital video, yoga, mat, aroma diffuser, arts sector funding application excerpts, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Samantha Mitchell, Spin for Success: A practical roadmap for those committed to a career in the arts, Single channel digital video, exercycle, arts sector funding application excerpts, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Installation view, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Harrison Freeth, Aim to Miss, Charcoal, Copper, Ink on Watercolour Paper, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

E-Kare, Point-and-Click Adventure Game, p5.js, web browser, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos

Anna-Marie Mirfin

Anna-Marie Mirfin is an artist based in Ōtepoti. She works across mediums including found materials, video and drawing. Recent exhibitions include Unformed Experience at New Lands Project Space and The Blue Oyster Artist Run Gym at Blue Oyster.

E-Kare

E-Kare (founded in 2016, Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is a xMUSICxARTx collective. Our produce is whimsical and silly, we love gimmicks and impermanence. GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES I can't get these GAMES out of my head.

Harrison Freeth

Harrison Freeth (Pākehā, Tongan, Sāmoan) searches through lines which connect genealogy, land, self and culture within a contemporary art context. Harrison is influenced by Moana philosophies of Tāvāism, pedagogies of play and existentialist philosophy. His work is a medley of stories, lessons and questions that intersect as a diary entry in which the medium of words is substituted for materials, form, motifs and mark making. Harrison is currently exhibiting in Canterbury Museum’s Shift exhibition and is in negotiation for a new exhibit in Anna-Marie’s parents’ garage.

Samantha Mitchell

Samantha Mitchell is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based interdisciplinary artist, gym instructor and entrepreneur. Her practice focuses on middle class aspirational exploits, bureaucratic systems and codified communication, expressing her enterprising aims through mimicry and satire in relational performance, video and print work. Constantly on the search for the next socially and financially lucrative business venture, she’s just a digital pack rat looking for a wealthy investor.