A survey of old and new works on stillness; then growth. This show is a counter to digital engagement and a salve to the constant desire for more, better, faster, bigger notions of success and progress. The show uses painting, sculpture, and photography to draw focus on different aspects of stillness.
Even in rural Taranaki, technology is encroaching on our peace. Apps to stay calm or meditate are replacing bush walks and swimming or sitting quietly in the shade reading fiction. There is something spiritual lost in this as well, time and stillness is required to engage with the divine, in whatever form it takes for you.
It is the attempt at stillness that is most important, not the success of it. To still the mind from racing ahead to tragedy or argument, to contrast movement and chaos, and to hold stillness in the same reverence that we do for productivity and drive. To feel the sun on my eyelids I have to pause, close my eyes, and get subtle.
The stillness of the hue seed, asleep underground, waiting for the earth to warm; or ash from Taranaki settling on a distant mountain in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. There is a stillness after a hard day's work when driving home in silence along country roads, lit only by the moon and your own headlights. Perhaps we need things to break the cacophony of daily life, a shift in our perception. While I am still here, I want to be still, here.
Installation shot
Te Whiti said
Acrylic on copper loops
Te Whiti said
Tohu Said, Acrylic on nylon
Internal kaleidoscope image with Varanasi beads
Internal kaleidoscope image with Varanasi beads
watercolour with water carried from the River Ganges on acid free, hot pressed Hanemühle paper, dimensions variable
watercolour with water carried from the River Ganges on acid free, hot pressed Hanemühle paper, dimensions variable
Inkjet photograph on Ilford Galerie Prestige
250 x 166mm unframed
Wooden stool, gold leaf and bindi
Inkjet photograph on Ilford Galerie Prestige
250 x 166mm unframed
Inkjet photograph on Ilford Galerie Prestige
250 x 166mm unframed
Wooden stool, gold leaf and bindi
Opens Thursday 28 June 2018
At Toi Poneke
Free Te reo Māori Lesson
1pm–2pm Saturday 14 July
Toi Pōneke HUB
In this fun, relaxed, workshop taught by Joan Costello, you will be given the opportunity to learn six accessible, fun and memorable pronunciation tips that will give you confidence to use Te reo Māori.
Installation view
acrylic on Khadi linen, 500 x 700mm
Acrylic on canvas, 500 x 700mm
Martin Awa Clarke Langdon and Elliot Collins
gifted cedar, acrylic paint
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, 2018, MACL and EC
Tohutō (macrons), 2018, Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
Untitled, (Māori rebel flags)
various belts
Acrylic, metal cards, nails
Harakeke seeds, endless supply.
Harakeke seeds Endless supply.
Harakeke seeds, endless supply.
Installation view - now patinated
Etched copper
Etched copper - now patinated
Etched copper - now patinated
School desks, ball point pens, restored windows, paint, paper, gifted cedar.
Toi Poneke
School desks, ball point pens, restored windows , paint, paper , gifted cedar
digital photographic prints, stained glass (24 pieces)
970mm H x 1990mm W
Work Destroyed
