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Lower Life Forms

Madeleine Child
Philip Jarvis

Wednesday 11 November - 28 November

Using masses of tied and twisted rubber bands, paint-saturated sponge and ceramic polyps, pottery and it’s packing materials, doodads & doodahs, oversized nic-nacs in a tradition of ornament and embedded decoration, Madeleine and Philip extend their repertoire from imitating domestic detritus to using it in the work.

"Thrown forms that just seem to happen when you are trying to think what to make on the wheel. Coral from obsessive compulsive nervous fiddling."

"The extraordinary ways the endemic Vegetable Sheep has evolved to survive the harsh living conditions of the alpine fell-field zone informed other work. Actually a collection of thousands of tiny plants that would not survive on their own, they grow in tightly packed (penguinish) clusters, their hairy leaves catching fog droplets and warm air while the dead leaves form a spongy cushion underneath to trap moisture and protect them from the High Country weather."

"Working with the not obviously beautiful - the almost ugly things that demand study and reward closer inspection. Thinking about them is to think about bothering to evolve ways to survive in a place (why not just move down the mountain?), about living in Dunedin, about identifying with this preoccupation with cold and damp."


Doodads and Doodahs

Vegetable Sheep III 2009

Doodads and Doodahs Yellow 2009

Vegetable Sheep V 2009