Join us to celebrate the new Main Gallery exhibitions from the artists Caroline McQuarrie and Lisa Nelson.
In ‘The land, again’ artist Caroline McQuarrie challenges us to consider how we view land and landscape.
Tracing one history of land use in Aotearoa New Zealand, the exhibition, which is created almost entirely from wool, depicts traditional sheep farming landscapes which we are encouraged to consider as human-made constructs. Utilising weaving and cross stitch at an expanded scale, the works reflect both human-centric ways of viewing landscape, and the differing ways we conceptualise land as its cultural value changes when economic imperatives shift.
Through the lens of photography, Lisa Nelson’s exhibition A Still Life draws from the past to create work that invites the viewer to pause and contemplate.
The power of photography is its ability not only to record but to reveal, the objects and found art used within her work to become silent story tellers.
At its heart the exhibition is about home, the people and objects that inhabit our lives and the traces they leave. “It's a love letter to the people predominantly the women in my life who have shaped me, who taught me that a quiet still life can be a beautiful life.”
All welcome!