New Lands. exhibition 20 October – 17 November 2023
Yay for ARIs! What? Artist Run Initiatives. Oh, cool 🙂
Haere mai ‘New Lands.’ gallery and project space Grown out of ‘The Heat’ in Tāmaki Makaurau, now in the historic Carnegie Center in Ōtepoti, and extra special as a registered Safe Space, being safe spaces for LGBTQI+ communities worldwide.
We’ve survived and are living life. This is how I face the world, some days Stretched Thin, some days Jaded. I write ‘living life’ because Brighton draws with paint, stick figures into being. This is not casual mark making, there is manipulated intention. Each figure is animatedly on the move, we have to catch their voice before they move off frame. They’re us, they’re our friends. I want to take them home.
On the floor space and leaning on walls are sculptures of found materials, given a new life with shape, form and connection – including the space they occupy. We are unable to resist taking time to question these sculptures, to make our own narratives around them from serious to whimsical.
Materialism laid bare but as people we are FIGHTINGFIT.
Bice Grace Lapin 