Site Specific work – Arthaus Orākei
A push and pull of surface, a line that ends at an edge.
Boxes contain drawings which are constricted by the dimensions of the form, created by the movement of that box through space. These actions walk a fine line between control and uncertainty, employing a definitive action that creates an unpredictable reaction.
A layering of topographies, creating maps of both contour and the incidental marks made by simple drawing devices placed in boxes and transported to their destination via the postal service or by car. Constrained by the dimensions of the box and the length of the journey the lines drawn are a literal translation of that space and time; the drawing is documentation of its own creation.
Doubled, Acrylic, liquid leaf & silver on linen
MR056660208NZ, Pen, silverpoint & NZ Courier on paper
MR056660199NZ, MR056660239NZ, Pen, silverpoint & NZ Courier on paper
Morningside to Arthaus Orakei, Cardboard, pen, silverpoint & NZ Courier
Green/Grey/Green & Grey/Green/Grey Acrylic on canvas, 350 x 350mm
Autumn 2018
Daily drawings of the sky over Autumn
Autumn Sky drawing series Graphite on paper
Weather Graphs (Graphite and ink on paper)
Weather information collected over Autumn as hand drawn graphs
Robot Crab Draws the Ocean
(Ballpoint, paper, robotic toy) 594 x 420 mm
“Let your Table Top Robot run across a table or a box. Watch it perform its trick again and again. It never fall off the edge”
Paper, in this case, is an edge, a boundary that defines the shape of what’s inside.
Holding a ballpoint pen in his plastic claw, the robotic crab navigates the edges of his environment and he draws the shape of his confinement.
Shown at ‘Paperwork’ Demo Space Auckland
Journey; From Pen to Print to Paint (NZPPA Award)
Journey; From Pen to Print to Paint. 2016. Acrylic on unbleached canvas, 615 x 920 mm.
This work started its life as a drawing made by placing a wheeled pen into a box containing paper, the box was then sent to a destination through the mail. The resulting marks record the incidental movements of its travel, a literal translation of the space and time of its journey, documentation of its own creation.
The lines made by this process then undertook a second journey through process and media; a translation through the digital, from photograph to vector, from vector to vinyl cut, finally resting as painting.
This work won the Supreme Award at the 2017 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards.
Many thanks to The Waikato Society of Arts and to the Philip Vela Family Trust for their generosity.
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Rose Meyer 