'Deep History', Sep/Oct 2024, ATELIER Studio|Gallery
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'Deep History', Sep/Oct 2024, ATELIER Studio|Gallery
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'Deep History', Sep/Oct 2024, ATELIER Studio|Gallery
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Deep History
Aoake & Scott make work considering how human and nonhuman organisms and ecosystems co-exist and are entangled in a greater network, encouraging a deeper exploration of the complex relationship amongst species.
In this exhibition, and in collaboration with Nelson Clay Week, they present a series of fired and unfired clay that thinks through these shared concerns and explores the idea of deep history. By thinking through understandings of human and non-human relations and the histories of the whenua through clay, they seek to expand upon conventional readings of deep human histories and offer a space to reveal and complicate histories of place.
Taarn Scott and Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Poutini Kāi Tahu) are long term friends who make art together. Their collaborative works consider spaces that exist in between, such as the intercultural hyphen of Māori-Pākehā, with the hyphen representing a way of exchanging hau (breath) and sharing ideas and ways of understanding complicated histories with care and thoughtfulness. Through this in-betweenness they are able to research shared interests of ecology, colonial architecture, place making, the life cycles of various animals and plants and the sacredness of the waterways that have and continue to sustain us. As multidisciplinary artists they have an extensive research practice that materially thinks through these ideas utilising ceramics, textiles, film, sound, text, jewellery, drawing, and various forms of sculpture such as steel and wax.
Recent exhibitions together include, Folded Memory, curated by Susan Ballard and Sophie Thorn, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2023-24); Ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea with Riki Gooch, Enjoy Contemporary, New Zealand (2023); Invasive Weeds or I wish I could give you the world but I was only given mud, rot and the bones of a half-eaten fish with Wesley John Fourie, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa (2022); The Future of Dirt with Wesley John Fourie, RM gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa; Untitled. White Box, Fringe Office, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (2021)
Opening Hours
- Wednesday to Friday, 11:00am – 5:00pm
- Saturday, 11:00am – 2:00pm
- Or viewing by appointment
Address
- Level 1
- 284 Trafalgar Street
- Nelson, 7010
Deep History
Aoake & Scott make work considering how human and nonhuman organisms and ecosystems co-exist and are entangled in a greater network, encouraging a deeper exploration of the complex relationship amongst species.
In this exhibition, and in collaboration with Nelson Clay Week, they present a series of fired and unfired clay that thinks through these shared concerns and explores the idea of deep history. By thinking through understandings of human and non-human relations and the histories of the whenua through clay, they seek to expand upon conventional readings of deep human histories and offer a space to reveal and complicate histories of place.
Taarn Scott and Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Poutini Kāi Tahu) are long term friends who make art together. Their collaborative works consider spaces that exist in between, such as the intercultural hyphen of Māori-Pākehā, with the hyphen representing a way of exchanging hau (breath) and sharing ideas and ways of understanding complicated histories with care and thoughtfulness. Through this in-betweenness they are able to research shared interests of ecology, colonial architecture, place making, the life cycles of various animals and plants and the sacredness of the waterways that have and continue to sustain us. As multidisciplinary artists they have an extensive research practice that materially thinks through these ideas utilising ceramics, textiles, film, sound, text, jewellery, drawing, and various forms of sculpture such as steel and wax.
Recent exhibitions together include, Folded Memory, curated by Susan Ballard and Sophie Thorn, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2023-24); Ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea with Riki Gooch, Enjoy Contemporary, New Zealand (2023); Invasive Weeds or I wish I could give you the world but I was only given mud, rot and the bones of a half-eaten fish with Wesley John Fourie, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa (2022); The Future of Dirt with Wesley John Fourie, RM gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa; Untitled. White Box, Fringe Office, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (2021)
