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15/09/10 - 10/10/10

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23/06/10 - 18/07/10

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25/05/10 - 19/06/10

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28/04/10 - 22/05/10

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

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03/03/10 - 27/03/10

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03/02/10 - 27/02/10

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Recent Work and Dynasty

Bronwynne Cornish
Lauren Winstone

Saturday 12 November - 03 December

Working primarily with ceramics, Bronwynne Cornish has made a formidable career as one of New Zealand’s most interesting artists in ceramics.
Despite taking the ancient origins of clay as a starting point, she still maintains a contemporary relevance.
As Elizabeth Eastmond commented of Cornish in New Zealand Women Artists, “Although she is obviously concerned with aspects of the Prehistoric and with ritual and magic, the effectiveness of Cornish’s work for me, lies in her ability to make the work speak in the present.”
Recent Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award finalist, Lauren Winstone is also interested in historic ceramics. Her Dynasty series, groups of faux historic artefacts, evokes Chinese and Korean museum collections.
Emily Howe of Oject magazine wrote recently “Lauren Winstone was drawn to ceramics while studying painting. Her wheel-thrown and modified vessels are salt glazed, a firing process that encrusts them with debris and imparts an aged appearance to match their antiquated forms. In still life arrangements, they take the concept to it's stillest extreme: the clusters are almost deathly, vacated, melancholy. Functional looking, their actual functionless is all the more conspicuous, and their would-be users all the more absent. They represent all the abandoned objects in the world, their histories and futures.”
Winstone elaborates: 'I am interested in the way we accumulate objects and build emotional attachments to the inanimate objects in our lives. Our environments become indexes of our attachments, and stories about who we are as owners.'"


From Dynasty series 2005 by Lauren Winstone

Houses of Refuge by Bronwynne Cornish

House of Refuge 2005