Right: Hare, taxidermy, by Cle Tukuitonga, Wetland beauty, acrylic on canvas, by Carol Peters.
Lower Left: within, without / a roto, a waho, photographic prints on aluminium + birdcage, by Ursula Christel.
<< Top Left: Details of an acrylic on canvas by Rob Carter and drawings on paper by Phil Dadson.
Three acrylic on card paintings (30 x 100 cm each) by Sophia Dadson.
<< Mid Left: Detail of photographic print by Sonja van Kerkhoff. AI assisted poster by Kalan Sherrard.
Prison of Self, 20 cm diameter, and below paintings on canvas and board by Sonja van Kerkhoff.
<< Lower Left: Details of a painting on board with objects and photographs on acrylic by S Vincent Hill
Estrogen, oil on board, 60 x 120cm by Rob Carter, balanced on a bowl of spoil (clay rubble).
<< On the floor: Detail of the rimu makes a stand, rimu trunk, photographs embedded inside an acrylic block
and about 30 kilo of spoil (clay rubble) by Sonja van Kerkhoff.
Lysaght referee, silkscreened customized corrugated iron sculpture by Jeff Thomson.
Detail of Postcards from the other side by Ursula Christel, Nawruz Paguidopon, Shaeron Caton Rose, Xiaojie Zheng,
Emma Papadopoulos, Aodhán Floyd
Bad Hair Day, Recycled wire by Bev Goodwin. low tide revealed, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 120 cm by Carol Peters.
Hare, taxidermy by Cle Tukuitonga, Red/orange/green ball, recycled wire by Bev Goodwin
Detail Wetland beauty, acrylic on canvas by Carol Peters. Postcards from the other side, customized postcards
and flattened birdcage by Ursula Christel.
Postcards from the other side, 2021, customized postcards and flattened birdcage by Ursula Christel.
For the 2021 Tiakina exhibition (sonjavank.com/takecare), 15 NZ-based artists were kaitiaki (caretakers) for artists in
countries more afflicted by Covid. Here Ursula worked with 5 artists who sent her January + February 2021 photographs
which show the effects of virus as a global tourist.
Clockwise: Aodhán Floyd, Co. Cork, Ireland: he made a St Brigid
cross from dogwood in his garden during Ireland's third lockdown. Nawruz Paguidopon, Manila, The Philippines - fully
masked commuters; Shaeron Caton
Rose, North Yorkshire - a near empty square on market day, U.K; Xiaojie Zheng,
San Francisco, U.S.A. - covid testing tents on her street; Emma Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece - masked at the market
detail Hare, taxidermy by Cle Tukuitonga. Two works by Bev Goodwin,
Top left: Red/orange/green ball, recycled wire, $738. Mid-right: Bad Hair Day, recycled wire, $875.
low tide revealed, acrylic on canvas by Carol Peters, $600. Bad Hair Day, recycled wire by Bev Goodwin, $875.
The rimu makes a stand, rimu trunk, photograph inside acrylic, 30 kilo of spoil (clay rubble). $1 per kilo.
Spot the Predator, acrylic on canvas, globe, and Terrestrial Jaws 2 a4 photographs on acrylic by S Vincent Hill
Estrogen, Oil on board by Robert Carter $350. Of the hormone, Estrogen. Rob's studio - Whangārei Quarry Arts Centre.
Balanced on a bowl of clay rubble, poured during a performance on the Northland Artists Conversation video interview
Changing Landscapes, 2023, Northland flash fiction. Sonja's story, The New Neighbour features the dumped fill.
artists
Aodhán Floyd, Cork, Ireland facebook.com/aodhan.rilke
Bev Goodwin, Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau instagram.com/bevgoodwinartist
Brenda Liddiard, Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau brendaliddiard.co.nz
Camilla During, Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau instagram.com/dadsoncamilla
Cle Tukuitonga,Ōtangaroa, The Far North | Te Tai Tokerau
Colin Harris, Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau artsintheville.co.nz/colin-harris
Carol Peters, Whangārei, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau wdc.govt.nz
Emma Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece emmapapadopoulos.wordpress.com
Jacqueline Wassen, The Netherlands jacquelinewassen.nl
Kalan Sherrard, U.S.A. enormousface.com
Nawruz Paguidopon, Manila, The Philippines linkedin.com/in/nawruzpaguidopon
Pascal Atiga-Bridger Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau brucepulmanpark.com
Phil Dadson, Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau vimeo.com/showcase/7171056
Piet Nieuwland Whangārei area, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau pietnieuwland.com
Robert Carter Hikurangi, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau instagram.com/rob_is_different
Sen McGlinn, Kawakawa, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau sculpturebysen.wordpress.com
Shaeron Caton Rose North Yorkshire, U.K. shaeron.com
Sonja van Kerkhoff, Kawakawa, Northland | Te Tai Tokerau sonjavank.com
Sophia Dadson, Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau
S Vincent Hill, Rodney, North of Auckland | Tāmaki-makau-rau
Ursula Christel, Warkworth (South Africa) ursulachristel.com
Xiaojie Zheng, San Francisco U.S.A. / Wenzhou, China facebook.com/xiaojie.zheng.92
Hare, taxidermy by Cle Tukuitonga, Red/orange/green ball, recycled wire by Bev Goodwin. $738
Wetland beauty, acrylic on canvas by Carol Peters. $600. Postcards from the other side, customized postcards
and flattened birdcage by Ursula Christel.
Tūī, Acrylic on cardboard, 2021 by Pascal Atiga-Bridger (Samoa, Europe, Tainui, Whānau-ā-Apanui). $750
Pascal lives in Papakura + works often on large-scale mural projects.
Nicosia Crossing,
photocopies on tissue + other paper of a drawing by Aodhán Floyd + arranged + extended by Sen McGlinn, 2021.
Aodhán's drawing is of his father near the UN buffer zone in Cyprus, looking at a house he can no longer walk to. Aodhán Floyd lives in Cork, Ireland. Sen was the caretaker (kaitiaki) artist partner for Aodhán in the Tiakina (Take Care) exhibition. See: sonjavank.com/takecare
In the Garden, 2023 silkscreen print on vintage record by Colin Harris. Colin, a self-taught artist, passed away unexpectedly in November 2023. Detail of taniko (flax weaving) by Cle Tukuitonga.
Untitled (fuzzy edges) mixed media on paper, 13 x 20 cm by Sophia Dadson. $70. Detail of a4 drawings on paper by Phil Dadson.
Below - right: Micro-Observation 4 (blue), 20 x 29 cm, hahnemuhle paper photographic print by Camilla During, $250.
Above: Notations (visual music) 5 a4 drawings, $450 each or $1350 for the suite, by Phil Dadson.
The Unshackled Image 45 x 35 cm, ink on canvas by Robert Carter, $150.
Untitled (vertical triptych), acrylic on card $210 or $70 per piece by Sophia Dadson.
She is a self-taught artist based in Tāmaki Makau-rau
<< Left: The Cauldron, 2022 Mixed media on card by Brenda Liddiard $75.
Brenda is a musician and artist based in Tāmaki Makau-rau.
Taniko (flax weaving)
by Cle Tukuitonga.
Micro-Observation 2 (greys), hahnemuhle paper photographic print by Camilla During, $250.
low tide revealed, acrylic on canvas >>
by Carol Peters, $600.
Bad Hair Day, recycled wire >>
by Bev Goodwin, $875.
Bev works in diverse media, often with wire, low tech and recycled materials. New Zealand born Bev is about to move back to Italy. She and Jeff Thomson won the second prize of the 2023 National Wire Awards, Waikato Museum.
The rimu makes a stand, rimu trunk, >>
photograph inside acrylic, 30 kilo of spoil (clay rubble) by Sonja van Kerkhoff. $1 per kilo. This is a fraction of the hundreds of tonnes of rubble dumbed by a new neighbour into our trees, including a rimu tree.
Detail of Lysaght referee, silkscreen >>
corrugated iron sculpture by Jeff Thomson
<< : detail The Reckless Earthworks that fall and slide (in our backyard) by Sonja van Kerkhoff.
<< : detail within, without / a roto, a waho, 2023, an installation work of a repurposed birdcage and two photographs on aluminium.
This work references The Great Pause (Covid lockdowns) and the disconnect experienced globally - on an intrapersonal and an interpersonal level. For some, the lockdowns were restrictive and frustrating; for others, the pause in pace unexpectedly brought a deeper sense of freedom and appreciation for simplicity and slowness.
The more we went 'without,' the greater the shifts 'within.'
Each photograph, for sale for $120, was taken during the 2020 NZ lockdown queuing to enter the supermarket.
Ursula, born in South Africa, lives in Warkworth.
Philoxenia, 2021,
acrylic and pencil on canvas-card >>
by Emma Papadopoulos, $250
In Greek this means 'friend to a stranger.' Philoxenia refers to taking care, looking after, being hospitable. Emma based in Athens, Greece wrote: My tavern chairs, my cultural reference to Greek hospitality, are empty right now due to lockdown. My chairs however, symbolise in this instance how strangers become friends and take care of facilitating a mutual cultural expression, that is, art.
More: sonjavank.com/takecare
Spot the Predator, 2023 >>
acrylic and pencil on canvas, shelf, mutilated globe.
by S.Vincent Hill. She wrote: Predator Free NZ 2050 is an ambitious goal which I fully support. But it also spotlights that here in New Zealand, and in the greater global context, we (humans) have become the worst predators of the natural environment.
S.Vincent Hill lives in Rodney.
<< Vogel (bird), ceramic by Jaqueline Wassen. Jacquline is an illustrator and artist based in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
<< The Reckless Earthworks that fall and slide (in our backyard) by Sonja van Kerkhoff.
Free-fall
In a certain landscape of volcanoes,
Maunu, Maungatapere, Maungakaramea, Whatitiri
your voice is the mirror of my eyes
retinas of blossom burst from the night perforated with stars
I feel the earth humid with dew
floating beneath the seven layers of sky
fluids of the forest spill from the edges
like the oscillating silk of a darkened room
in the silent scent of the wind
petals of peach plum and kowhai free-fall
undressing our eyelashes in a mirage
of mirrored reflections
Piet Nieuwland
