OverView - Is As: Landscape as Metaphor | Milford Galleries Dunedin

Past Exhibitions

OverView - Is As: Landscape as Metaphor

25 Oct - 3 Dec 2003

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Artists

Wayne Barrar
Nigel Brown
Peter Cleverley
Garry Currin
Simon Edwards
Michael Hight
Karl Maughan
Scott McFarlane
Mary McIntyre
Stanley Palmer
Elizabeth Rees
Ann Robinson
Peter James Smith
Michael Smither
John Walsh
Jim Wheeler
Brent Wong

Exhibition Works

John Walsh Customary Practice (2003) detail

Brent Wong Clouds - Headland, Island (1998/2003)

Brent Wong Cloud - Island (1999)

Simon Edwards Plantation I (2003)

Simon Edwards Plantation II (2003)

Simon Edwards Broken Cloud (2003)

Garry Currin Genesis II (Purakaunui) (2003)

Garry Currin Landfall: Detail of a Journey (2003)

Wayne Barrar Beneath Bowen Falls To Mitre Peak, Fiordland 2000 (printed 2005) No. 13/20

Wayne Barrar Ohau Riverbed Below Ruataniwha 2002 (2003)

Wayne Barrar Across Spillway on Ohau Canal 2002 (printed 2003)

Michael Smither Lava Flow & Rock Pool (2002)

Peter Cleverley Look Up, Look West From Matakaea (2003)

Peter Cleverley Look Up, Look West From Waianakarua (2003)

Peter Cleverley Sing the Song the Waiata & the Hymn: Songs About the Sea (2000)

Ann Robinson Symbiont States Series - The Nature of Nurture #2 (2004)

Ann Robinson Twisted Flax Pods #12 & #13 (2003) detail

Nigel Brown I Am - Socialism, Capitalism (2000)

Nigel Brown The Role Of The Artist As Arsonist (2002)

Nigel Brown Red Sea (2002)

Karl Maughan Hergest Ridge (2003) detail

Karl Maughan Hergest Croft (2003) detail

Karl Maughan Kew (2003) detail

Jim Wheeler Regeneration (2002)

Stanley Palmer Waikaro (2003)

Scott McFarlane Mapoutahi (2003)

Scott McFarlane Potato Point (2003)

Scott McFarlane Taiaroa Head (2003)

Michael Hight Lake Aviemore (2003)

Michael Hight Motutapu River Wanaka (2003)

Michael Hight Sonora Creek Cromwell (2003)

Elizabeth Rees Quiet Road I (2003)

Elizabeth Rees Quiet Road II (2003)

Elizabeth Rees Quiet Road III (2003)

Peter James Smith For History Is A Pattern Of Timeless Moments (2003)

Peter James Smith Spirits Bay (2003)

Peter James Smith As The Light Falls On The Arthur River (2003)

Mary McIntyre Family Life, Puriri Drive II (2003)

Mary McIntyre Family Life, Puriri Drive I (2003)

Mary McIntyre Family Life, Puriri Drive III (2003)

Exhibition Text

OverView is a major survey of contemporary New Zealand art in three parts.

The first exhibition entitled Is As: Landscape as Metaphor continues until December 3.
In the hands of our major painters, sculptors and glass artists the New Zealand landscape is revealed in layered detail, subject focus and meaning. The landscape carries messages, points of view. Landscape has become immediate, living and close to hand. It also now has a varying scale and complexity of function. It can be external and internal. It can be backyard, mountaintop, islands in the sun, a tree growing, a garden, a lake, and the detail of a rock pool.

This nationally significant exhibition has a number of internal dialogues, including the state of our environment; cultural presence and memory in the landscape; landscape as architecture, signifier, and object of the sublime. Landscape as a reality and spiritual force in New Zealand has long moved on from the debate of man alone, moved from subjugation and confrontation to participation, observation and companionship as well.

Landscape is now being used by our artists as a metaphor about who and what we are just as much as of who and what the landscape is.