Oliver King, 'This is charisma at its best', 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Scott Lawrie Gallery.
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Exhibition Opening
scottlawrie.comScott Lawrie Gallery is delighted to announce that they are now formally representing Oliver King – and kicking off the partnership with an outstanding show of new work, opening Saturday, 28 November from 3pm.
"I’ve been a massive fan of Oliver’s practice since he graduated with a First Class MFA from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design in 2018," says Scott Lawrie, Director. "Visually gripping, with cascading layers of nuance and meaning, Oliver’s work primarily explores ideas of contemporary masculinity – and asks important questions about what it means to be a white pakeha male in the context of decolonisation, privilege and consumerism."
Are these elements of awareness enough to eventually disenfranchise the power hierarchies of race and gender? Or do our personal histories as men – more often than not shaped by our fathers – offer a far more honest foundation for empathy, healing and reconciliation through individual shared experiences of what it means to ‘be a man’ today?
Price
- Free
Date
- Sat 28 Nov
Time
- 3:00 pm — 5:00 pm
Address
- 2 Murdoch Road (Off Williamson Ave)
- Grey Lynn, Auckland
Scott Lawrie Gallery is delighted to announce that they are now formally representing Oliver King – and kicking off the partnership with an outstanding show of new work, opening Saturday, 28 November from 3pm.
"I’ve been a massive fan of Oliver’s practice since he graduated with a First Class MFA from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design in 2018," says Scott Lawrie, Director. "Visually gripping, with cascading layers of nuance and meaning, Oliver’s work primarily explores ideas of contemporary masculinity – and asks important questions about what it means to be a white pakeha male in the context of decolonisation, privilege and consumerism."
Are these elements of awareness enough to eventually disenfranchise the power hierarchies of race and gender? Or do our personal histories as men – more often than not shaped by our fathers – offer a far more honest foundation for empathy, healing and reconciliation through individual shared experiences of what it means to ‘be a man’ today?
