Past Exhibitions - 2015

Machine Time_Nature Time

Mizuho Nishioka

30 November - 4 December 2015

PhD Exhibition

I argue the disruption of technology contributes to an alternative understanding of photographic practice and questions how might deviation of these subliminal processes alter or augment a body of creative photographic based work. By presenting a series of photographic works in exhibition format, the research incites a recursive questioning of what constitutes the photographic image, what is selectively included, and what is silently occluded.

—Mizuho Nishioka

More info and images HERE

Fruit Salad

Anthony Johnson

2 - 23 October 2015

On and on and on and

Sean Kerr

17 July - 14 August 2015

Opening event Thursday 16 July at 5.30 pm

Shut Up And Draw... Big

Susan Te Kahurangi King

28 June - 10 July 2015

This collaborative project invited the audience to contribute to a large-scale wall drawing which was completed over the duration of the exhibition. As its starting point, the wall drawing responded to selected motifs found within a number of King’s works. A large-scale severed leg, Daffy duck’s beak and other anthropomorphic forms were reproduced on the existing gallery walls and functioned as prompts for collective response.

In association with From the One I Call My Own at City Gallery Wellington.

Read a curatorial essay by artist Stuart Shepherd HERE

Crossing The Line

Laura Woodward

Briana Jamieson

Sophie Goodwin

Curated by Pauline Autet

29 May - 19 June 2015

Goodwin, Jamieson. and Woodward have a close connection with the Engine Room gallery and wider campus location as they are final year students in Fine Arts, about to step out of the university umbrella and start a new chapter. Central to their practice, line and drawing are used to respond and connect with the physical spaces they inhabit.

For more on the exhibition read the accompanying text HERE

Traces

Yueyun Song

Mark Antony Steelsmith

Tom Hoyle

Celia Walmsley

MFA Exhibition

20 - 22 May 2015

This group exhibition features works by Yueyun Song, Mark Antony Steelsmith, Celia Walmsley and Tom Hoyle; tracing explorations of the lived experience of memory and time through the intimate and familiar, the immediate and present.

For more on the exhibition read text HERE

Parallel Play

Hannah Beatrice

Christopher Ulutupu

Thomas Slade

Robert Handcock

Daniel Rose

4 - 8 May 2015

MFA Exhibition

Parallel play (adjacent play, social coaction) – a form of play among a group of children in which each engages in an independent activity that is similar to but not influenced by or shared with the others. A stage through which children pass as they develop from solitary players to social players.

For more on the exhibition read the text HERE

Rocked Stars

FANTASING:

Bek Coogan

Gemma Syme

Claire Harris

Sarah Jane Parton

1 - 24 April 2015

More reading and images on FANTASING at the Physics Room HERE