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15/09/10 - 10/10/10

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18/08/10 - 12/09/10

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21/07/10 - 14/08/10

Beneath the Blue
23/06/10 - 18/07/10

Duck!
25/05/10 - 19/06/10

The House of Lentigo
28/04/10 - 22/05/10

Stupid Studid Stupid Stupid Stupid Daddy
31/03/10 - 24/04/10

Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious
03/03/10 - 27/03/10

Dark Matter Blue Noise
03/02/10 - 27/02/10

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Homely Bones


Tuesday 13 September - 02 October

Having recently shifted from Auckland to Whanganui, Andrea du Chatenier was struck by the range of natural materials and associated skills available in the area. “The opportunity shops are full of home knits and turned wooden bowls which have a real sense of homeliness about them. We tend to associate the quality of these materials and skills with another era but they are common place here” she said. The red/white colours also come from the region – the suburb of Aramoho where she lives – where wannabe young gangsters wear the colours of the gang they are affiliated with. “The colours are homely and kind of homie” she said, “just like felt, the gang colours are like some protective layer or insulation.” Du Chatenier points out that the German artist Joseph Beuys used felt symbolically for it’s protective qualities. “He optimistically believed in a world that could be healed through an understanding of nature. For New Zealanders wood and wool are the grass-roots products that we optimistically believed would sustain our economy. Both products have been extensively imitated by synthetic materials which have often proved more efficient. The materials are now symbolic of a nostalgic ideal of authenticity that haunts our national psyche.” Homely Bones runs until 2 October 2005


Agent with dragonfly cloak 2005

Breath I 2005

Heart with Trunk I & Trunk II 2005

Canary Left 2005