In the Lower Gallery, Kirstin Perrett refers to Rousseau's jungle paintings directly to emphasise her ideas on the representation through the imagination of the artist and the power of the digital artist in reconstructing realities.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 27 Māehe -
Hātarei 14 Āperira
Tuesday 27 March -
Saturday 14 April
2007
For her latest exhibition, Kirstin Perrett has dipped into the realm of the geek - glimpsing snapshots from the online role playing phenomena World of Warcraft and then making a scene from memory. She's no fan of the game - like Rousseau's jungle paintings, Perrett conjures up a place never really visited. The result is an imagined-imagined world and is as much about the imagination iof the artist as the (virtual) reality of the place. Kirstin explains the motivation behind War Craft:
"I am drawn to the subject partly as a reaction to my previous work "Playing to the posters on my bedroom wall. Playing showed social scenes of urban rock n roll cool - my new work explores the online world of the gaming geek - where social interaction is removed and seen through a digital filter."
Presented alongside James Robinson Spaceships and Charlotte Parallel Equipotential Bonding
