Whitespace at Auckland Art Fair: Lianne Edwards and Jack Trolove
May 1-5 2019artfair.co.nz/
Lianne Edwards
Beauty and chaos, transience and permanence are key phrases in Lianne Edwards’ analysis of nature and its mindless destruction by humankind.
Lianne Edwards’ background as a marine biologist and a creative artist serves to position her at the forefront of eco artists in New Zealand. Her interest in both science and art finds its voice in artworks that make comment on our relationship with the natural world. All too often humankind is found wanting in any examination of our interaction with nature. Edwards’ work, often microscopically delicate, or alternatively, commanding a strong physical presence, tells the story of a world at war with itself. With a focus on the ocean and seashore, Edwards confronts us with our own weapons of destruction which are deployed in artworks that lead the way in contemporary social conscience art in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lianne has work in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Chartwell Collection, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, James Wallace Arts Trust and many private and public collections.
Jack Trolove
Jack’s work explores the relationships between embodiment and liminal spaces, such as intergenerational memory and other states of in-between-ness. He approaches figurative work as a kind of remembering. From a distance, Jack's paintings are intimate and raw portraits, full of emotion, and honestly revealing of the human body. Up close, they are tactile celebrations of paint as a material, abstracted and overflowing with colour and texture.
Artists
- Lianne Edwards and Jack Trolove
Date
- Wed 01 May — Sun 05 May
Auckland Art Fair 2019
- The Cloud
- 89 Quay Street
- Auckland 1010
Lianne Edwards
Beauty and chaos, transience and permanence are key phrases in Lianne Edwards’ analysis of nature and its mindless destruction by humankind.
Lianne Edwards’ background as a marine biologist and a creative artist serves to position her at the forefront of eco artists in New Zealand. Her interest in both science and art finds its voice in artworks that make comment on our relationship with the natural world. All too often humankind is found wanting in any examination of our interaction with nature. Edwards’ work, often microscopically delicate, or alternatively, commanding a strong physical presence, tells the story of a world at war with itself. With a focus on the ocean and seashore, Edwards confronts us with our own weapons of destruction which are deployed in artworks that lead the way in contemporary social conscience art in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lianne has work in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Chartwell Collection, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, James Wallace Arts Trust and many private and public collections.
Jack Trolove
Jack’s work explores the relationships between embodiment and liminal spaces, such as intergenerational memory and other states of in-between-ness. He approaches figurative work as a kind of remembering. From a distance, Jack's paintings are intimate and raw portraits, full of emotion, and honestly revealing of the human body. Up close, they are tactile celebrations of paint as a material, abstracted and overflowing with colour and texture.
