Dance of a Marae Fly - part II
Matawai (B24.1) triptych, 2013/24, Oil on linen, 360 (H) x 240 (W) x 4cm (D)
Front elevation
Side elevation
In order of above appearance: (from left to right) Matawai (B24.1), 2013, triptych, Oil on linen, 360 x 240cm; Te Paki o Matariki (B24.4), 2024, Oil on linen, 51 x 61cm; Korotangi or Selfie (B24.5), 2024, Oil on linen, 51 x 75.5cm; He Data… Tui, (B24.6), 2024, Oil on linen, 75 x 55cm; He Data… Huia (B24.7), 2024, Oil on linen, 75 x 55cm; Korotangi (large, B24.2), 2013-24, Oil on linen, 120 x 150cm; Korotangi (small, B24.3), 2024, Oil on linen, 51 x 75.5cm at PAULNACHE, 2024
Paintings
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Drawings
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Large Drawing #29
Reviewing an eventful year:
Title: Large Drawing #29
Year created: 2023
Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 120 (H) x 150 (W) x 6.5cm (D)
Whakatauki/ script:
He aha te mea nui o te ao ?
He tangata, he tangata, he tangataWhat is the most important thing in the world ?
It is the people, the people, the people.
Installation view of the drawing board by James Ormsby, curated by Matthew Nache IMG X Thomas P Teutenberg, November 2024 at PAULNACHE, Gisborne
August - November, 2022
Some reflections whilst starting at the top: three waves of colonisation upon our southern reef -Indigenous Polynesians, then from Europe, and now Asian… sensing Home at Opua… Orders interrupted and refracted… a cosmic Endeavour and technologies aflame… a Lexicon - perhaps a working title for a record of most of my iconography… ink on paper - hmmm… a cartridge of ink lasts some 68m of line!
February - May, 2023
Whilst walking along and old coastal path below my studio - I found a chip from a plate (a tin-glazed earthenware piece, called "delft," from England in colonial times), something I had just drawn the day before !
My representations of this small object references me…
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate”
(Ref: “Man and His Symbols” By: Carl Gustav Jung, 1964.)
Death - I am at a point where decay, distilling and growth engages. I sense the outcomes of being on life-support for 25 minutes then cooked with medications for a week have changed me. Now hollowed - I am healing lightly, binding wisdom, dressing whakatauki, and staking layers in a new order.
Within the surgery of violent healing… a physical piercing above and below… rought, all will be revealed from my heart, and paper, rolling out from my armpit !
June - September, 2023
Some reflections whilst winding-up at the bottom:
There is a covering and uncovering of follies of our imagined orders.
All these marks leave a simplicity, a time, a personal mystery and awe…
So, there is a soul within this drawing - an alteration of a fragile heart, a change of dubious whakapapa and religion - from a dream state to a waking state…
“From wonder to wonder - existence opens” (Lao Tzu)
Rangimarie – notes from the artist, © James Ormsby (2024)
Acknowledgements
With support from his whanau & wife Betty Ormsby
Text notes by: James Ormsby
Photography: Thomas P Teutenberg
Curated by: James Ormsby & Matthew Nache
Exhibition: Dance of a Marae Fly – Part II, Drawings & Paintings
Exhibition dates: 29 November 2024 – 1 February 2025
Location: PAULNACHE upstairs 89 Grey St, Turanganui-a-Kiwa, Gisborne, Aotearoa NZ