Kate Fitzharris' sculptural installation in the Darkside Gallery, Walk, documents and memorialises the artist's journey by foot from the Blueskin Bay oyster beds to the Blue Oyster Art Project Space.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 15 Noema -
Paraire 23 Tīhema
Tuesday 15 November -
Friday 23 December
2011
Kate Fitzharris' sculptural installation, Walk documents and memorialises the artist's journey by foot from the Blueskin Bay oyster beds to the Blue Oyster Art Project Space. During this walk Fitzharris constructed many beeswax beads, embedded with materials that she found along the way. This mixture of materials has resulted in 'pearls', which are composites of sand, water, dog hair, roadside weeds, plastic rubbish, materials dropped by fellow walkers, horse manure, peeling paint and residue from road signs. These 'pearls' will be strung around the gallery as a memento of the journey, but a somewhat ghostly reminder. As the viewer enters the gallery they will follow the artist's path back to the Blueskin Bay oyster beds along this string of embalmed traces.
Saturday 10 December 2011: Artist Talk
Presented alongside Nicola Hansby A Collection of Still Lifes, Rose McLeod Memory and Fabric and Sonja van Kerkhoff Caravan from Istanbul, Dunedin. These exhibitions, which all explore the connections between art and memory.
