Sunday, February 24, 2008

A Sample of Staff-werk from 2007



Ilse-Marie Erl and Simon Gamble staked out the window at Objectpace with Momento, (also shown at Snowhite Gallery) as well as having their work curated into the sprawling end-of-season show, Small Wonders: 7 Installations By 7 Curators.

Alan Preston’s contemporary jewellery practice was recognised with a wide-ranging retrospective exhibition, Alan Preston: Made in Aotearoa at the The New Dowse early in 2007.

Pauline Bern exhibited widely in 2007, notably in a group show at Fingers that marked the Permit Jewellery symposium held at MIT, along with the many practitioners she has taught or mentored.

Areta Wilkinson was selected as one of nine New Zealand and 30 international artists selected to participate in Turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial from 9 March to 4 June 2007. Areta Wilkinson will be taking a sabbatical in 2008.

Kim Meek exhibited a survey of his drawing practice in a show entitled Towards an Ornamental Ecology 2004–2007 at Snowhite, and has work on pubic view in Misty Frequencies, curated by Carl Chitham at the Whakatane Museum & Gallery.