Tag Archive: map projections

2010-11 Graphite on paper. 360 x 260 mm, framed now 480 x 380 mm. Initial version shown in An Other World, ICAN Sydney in 2010. Altered in 2011 and framed for Myriad Worlds at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2011. Based on projections designed by Jarke J. van Wijk, with an Antarctic-centred variant requested by… View Article

1988 Black and white photocopy on Japanese rice paper. 345 x 480 mm. First exhibited at the Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington. Often reproduced, including on the cover of group exhibition catalogue for Distance Looks Our Way, 1992. Included in group exhibition Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand at Frankfurter Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum, Aachen, curators… View Article

2009 Mineral salts. Installation dimensions variable. Commissioned for the survey exhibition Unnerved: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, at Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane, Australia. A simple stop-time video of the installation can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW3xqlZq6_U

2008 Snow melting salt. Installation dimension, 6000 mm diameter. Exhibited as part of group show Zoom and Scale at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2008. Curator Antje Lehn.

2008 Washing powder. Installation dimensions variable, here approximately 8000 mm wide. Group exhibition, Better Places, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Perth, Australia. Curator Melissa Keys. See Texts page for a pdf of the catalogue.

2007 Pencil on paper in lacquered wooden case. 400 x 310 x 60 mm (top) through 155 mm (base). Natural Boundaries is the title of a series of 12 boxed drawings, exhibited at Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, 2007 as part of the exhibition Unsafe. The map projections were devised by oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus who is recognised… View Article

2003 Water softening salt. Installation dimensions variable; here at 6000 mm diameter. Installation view as part of Abstractions, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra. Curator for my component of the exhibition Gordon Bull. The map projection was devised by and used with permission from the renowned Professor Emeritus of Geography at University of California at Santa Barbara, Waldo Tobler…. View Article

2000 Linseed, monitor with single channel looped DVD. Exhibited at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, for solo show of same title. The video shows a looped clip from the 1958 film Areyonga, produced by the then Commonwealth Film Unit of Australia. It shows the white teacher at the mission station showing the local, Aboriginal children… View Article

1999 Chocolate wrapping paper. 1600 mm diameter. Exhibited as part of The World Interrupted, a solo show at the Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, 1999. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Reproduced in catalogue for Bright Paradise: Exotic History and Sublime Artifice, First Auckland Triennale, 2001.  

1998 Gold mica and wax on leather rugby ball. First exhibited in Sydney College of the Arts offshoot gallery, Sydney. Included as part of Myriad Worlds at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2011. Private collection, Christchurch.

1997 Cibachrome photographs cut into myriad pieces, metal pins, with etched metal plaque. 1700 mm diameter. Exhibited as part of group exhibition Vantage, Australian Centre for Photography. Curator Blair French.

1997 Cibachrome photographs cut into myriad pieces, metal pins. Each star is approximately 600 mm diameter. Exhibited as part of The World Interrupted, a solo show at the Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, 1999. The Antarctic centred star was included in the Big Wall Project Myriad Worlds at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2011.    

1996 Cibachrome photographs cut into myriad pieces, metal pins. 1600 mm diameter. Exhibited at the Wellington City Gallery, Wellington for The World Over/De Wereld Bollen, curators Dorine Mignot and Wystan Curnow, 1996. Appeared on the back cover of Photofile magazine, Sydney, 1996. Reproduced in Wystan Curnow’s essay “Mapping and the Expanded Field of Contemporary Art” in Mappings, Reaktion… View Article

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1986 Acrylic paint, wood stain, marine varnish, photocopy, conte, tissue on linen mesh on wood. 2940 mm x 760 mm x 80 mm Exhibited in Shifting Ground, Wellington City Gallery, curator Gregory Burke, 1989. Also in the group exhibition After Dark, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, curator Robert Leonard, 1992. Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift… View Article