Event Details
Jun 12
Muse Art Gallery
In new group show For The Love of The Land, Muse Gallery presents an exhibition of three artists for whom relationship to landscape is central to their practices. The history of New Zealand art has always been deeply preoccupied with depictions of the land. Whether celebrated as a blank canvas for ‘progress’ or romanticized as sublime and wild, Aotearoa’s singular landscape has taken root in our art to become a site for personal and collective imagination.
Best known to Hawkes Bay audiences, Josh Lancaster’s beautifully lit local landscapes explore the shared connections and personal significances that places hold in our communities and our memories. Much as his pictures attempt to fix his subjects in time, he knows that change is already. For Waikato artist, Jennie De Groot, landscape provides a form through which abstract expressionist paintwork and dynamic pictorial depth can be merged to create dreamlike evocations of place and non-place on the edge of recognizability. The pastoral landscapes in Andrew Barns-Graham’s works, meanwhile, subvert the perspectival conventions
The Muse team and Josh Lancaster look forward to welcoming you for drinks on opening night to celebrate For The Love of The Land.
