2022
METHOD
Pah Homestead, Wallace Arts Trust
Keeping Score
Dimensions: Approximately 1 CBM.
Materials: Expanding foam and spray paint on steel frame.
Rodeo
Dimensions: Approx 115 cm H x 42 cm W x 35 cmD
Materials: Steel hand trolley, spray paint, rope, sand, wooden box, leather belt, paper and graphite.
View of the Warehouse
Dimensions: 35 cm W x 180 cm H x 50 cm D
Materials: Acrylic paint, ink, cotton, and sandbag on MDF.
Tyla Jane Armstrong, Valerie bos, Gareth Brighton, Bronwyn Cornish, Chris Davis, Cat Fooks, Alex John Kinnaired, Cilla Kinnaired, Alexis Hunter, Elise McDermott, Michael Prosee, Joseph Scott, Nichola Shanley, Pauline Thompson.
A presentation of selected works by artists connected in practice, METHOD is about making as a habit - or as a love affair - supported by key pieces from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and housed at the Pah Homestead. METHOD is also an exhibition of rapture, of the artists featured, and of the artist-curators Eliza Webster and Michael Prosee.
METHOD is the bottling of shared enthusiasm towards the sleepless, fighting need to create. A group exhibition, and an organic meeting point of practices, ideas and narrative, METHOD follows a staged series of chain reactions that rely on the fundamentals of making as a craft - colour, shape, content, line, surface. It uses simple devices - coloured walls, directed viewing - to celebrate prolific making as something human and urgent about art. It is unique in that it also builds from and with the curatorial and exhibition technician roles of Eliza and Michael (in Kirikiriroa and Tāmaki Makaurau respectively). METHOD, then, is also collaboration between curators, artists, and spaces, exploring the elements of two working arrangements and creative curiosities pulling together to create something novel, whimsical, and suspenseful that carries us.
