Louise Rutledge
This Should Be Pretty
2015
Vinyl on acm board
122 x 244cm
Private Collection
Samin Son
Tooth Paste Contact
2014
HD video transferred to bluray
25 mins, edition of 3
Samin Son
(installation) with
Glen Hayward
E-Spot
2012
Wood & paint
36 x 17.5 x 7cm
Samin Son
2015
Yellow PVC raincoat, toothpaste
Dimensions vary
James R Ford & Shannon Novak
U Can't Touch This
2015
Ink on 308gsm Hahnemule Photo Rag paper, augmented reality intervention, digital file, and software
84.1 x 59.4 cm
Edition of 3
Glen Hayward
(installation)
Glen Hayward
White Noise (blank canvas)
2015
Wood and paint
59.5 x 39.5 x 3cm
Glen Hayward
White Noise (detail)
Glen Hayward
White Noise (side detail)
Glen Hayward, Matt Arbuckle and Scott Eady
(installation)
Matt Arbuckle
Sixteen Piece Suit
2015
Oil on board
157 x 120cm
Scott Eady
(installation)
Scott Eady
Fleece
2015
Marino wool, silkdupion, blank cotton, hand sewn by Anne Jaquiery
45.7 x 45.7cm
Scott Eady
You Look Fabulous, Repeated 272 Times
2015
Font: calibri, lower case, font size: 11, fabriano paper, invisible offset printing ink,
42 x 37cm
Scott Eady
The Artist Nose
2015
Bronze, gold leaf
7 x 5 x 9cm
James and Eleanor Avery
Taxi
2015
Laminate, metal stand
144 x 54 x 50cm
James and Eleanor Avery
Taxi (detail)
James and Eleanor Avery
Taxi (detail)
Scott Eady with James R Ford
(installation)
James R Ford
Penetrating the Calm
2015
Cast acrylic, graphite
5.8 x 10 x 10cm
James R Ford
Penetrating the Calm (detail)
Sanjay Theodore
(installation)
Sanjay Theodore
Untitled #1
2014
Found paper photocopy in elaborate frame
29.7 x 21cm
Sanjay Theodore
Untitled #2
2014
Found paper photocopy in elaborate frame
29.7 x 21cm
Will Coles
(installation)
Will Coles
#YOLO
2015
Bronze (edition of 1)
18 x 17 x 1cm
Will Coles
LOL
2015
Bronze (edition of 1)
18 x 17 x 1cm
Ben Pearce
(installation)
Ben Pearce
I Often Miss Beaty All Around Me / Moon Crater Study
2015
Cast glass, acrylic
37 x 29.3cm / 30.4 x 23cm
Ben Pearce
I Often Miss Beaty All Around Me
2015
Cast glass, acrylic
37 x 29.3cm
Justin Jade Morgan
#WALKINMYSHOESHOMAGETOREGANGENTRYFOOTINTHEDOOR
2014/15
Pair of remo shoes with red laces as worn by the artist
Size 9
Ongoing performance project; visitors are in vited to try the shoes on and/or to wear them if possible while spending time in the gallery
Justin Jade Morgan
I Will Support You If You Light Me Up
2015
Hanimex classmaster super LUQ OHP and stretched linen
80 x 40cm
Justin Jade Morgan
I Will Support You If You Light Me Up (detail)
2015
Light on linen
40 x 40cm
Justin Jade Morgan
Untitled No.5, 2014, edition of 3 (2/3), found light series 2014/15, one off digital photographs printed on A3, 300 gsm paper
Untitled No.12, 2014, edition of 3 (2/3), found light series 2014/15, one off digital photographs printed on A3, 300 gsm paper
Justin Jade Morgan
Untitled No.5
2014
Archival digital print on 300gsm paper
Edition of 3
24.5 x 42cm
Louise Rutledge
Please Pretend This Means Something
2014
Cermanic mug
12 x 9.5 x 8.2cm
+
I Don't Know Why
2014
Foam stress ball
4.8 x 4.8 x 4.8cm
The Emperors New Clothes, Group Show, 3-25 April 2015
The Emperor’s New Clothes is a group exhibition curated by James R Ford, taking its name from the short story by Hans Christian Andersen. The fable tells of two weavers who promise an Emperor a new set of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!”. Whispers build up and the audience declares it too. Even the King decides they must be right, but bears up and continues with his procession.
Ford begins with the fable to address ideas of perception, absurdity and belief; looking at both the role of art and our relationship to it. He is also confronting the subject of the abstract value of art: that which makes art ‘good’ or interesting or worth spending time on can often be unseen or initially unapparent. Works included use humour, deception or metaphor to open up a dialogue on that intangible quality that is not easily grasped. It is artists, like the innocent child, who are the ones willing to question our assumed knowledge and beliefs, and even looking like fools themselves in the process.
The Emperor’s New Clothes features 12 artists from New Zealand, Australia and beyond, working in painting, film, performance, sculpture, digital media and installation.