Peak Landscape Queenstown Contemporary Solo Exhibition

July 2020

You’re the Hero - 600mm x 600mm, acrylic on board, 2020, 

Sit Still - 600mm x 600mm, acrylic on board, 2020

Cascading Shadows - 840mm x 600mm, acrylic on board, 2020, 

Vanishing Tears - 1540mm x 600mm, acrylic on board, 2020.

Tumble Blue - 600mm x 600mm, acrylic on board, 2020,

Look Up and See - 1040mm x 600mm, acrylic on board, 2020, 

Sit Still - Shadows + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold- pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Sit Still - Shadow + Sunlight + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 4, Unframed

Sit Still - Stone + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold- pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Cascading - Sunlight + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Cascading - Shadow + Sunlight + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Cascading - Stone + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Look Up - Shadow + Sunlight + Sky, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Look Up - Sunlight + Shadow, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Look Up - Sunlight + Shadow, 280mm x 280mm, screen print on cold-pressed watercolour paper, edition of 6, Unframed

Artist Statement
My art practice is about creating a visual language to explore the relationship I have with our epic local landscape. This body of work is an object meditation on Ngā Pukemaeroero, or the Eyre Mountains, closest to my home. 
Grounded in conceptual concerns intrinsic to printmaking methodology, such as the creation of generative matrices and choices around how to translate these into prints of various kinds, the pieces are a documentation closely connected to my working process, namely art-making as a form of embodied meditation. This work was created over lockdown and so is a reckoning with the felt impacts of Covid-19 here in our region - in particular how I participate in, and am complicit with, constructing our local economy around the commercialisation of our landscape in unsustainable ways. Peak Landscape is my riff on the notion of Peak Oil, or Peak TV, the idea that there’s a point at which the commodification of our landscape will hit is maximum rate, after which our exploitative approach will terminally decline. The final series of printed images, both works on board and paper, form a contemplative visual poem of sorts that makes manifest some of these personal musings.
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