Fresh and exciting exhibitions for The Forrester Gallery

Published on 18 July 2024

The Forrester Gallery is delighted to have a full suite of fresh and exciting exhibitions. 

Alongside the Uplifting Art Auction, which provides an opportunity to fundraise much needed funds for the gallery extension’s lift, we have Audrey Baldwin’s THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHING’S FINE, MikiNobu Komatsu’s Classic Aotearoa and Fiona Frew’s Rubbish Bodies. The opening weekend was a time to celebrate all artists and supporters involved. The current exhibitions collectively offer a variety of mediums, intentions, and aspirations.

Audrey Baldwin’s THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHING’S FINE takes aim at ‘grind culture’, internalised capitalism, and the challenges of living within a media-driven society. Baldwin is a Zimbabwe-born, Ōtautahi based multidisciplinary artist. Her work is thought-provoking, with playfulness and vibrant colours bound to excite. Baldwin’s triple-channel video installation in the gallery’s vault, KPI’s (2023), radiates relatability, sharing common feelings experienced by those caught up in a monotonous corporate grind.

MikiNobu Komatsu’s Classic Aotearoa presents ‘New Zealand architecture through a photographer’s eye’. Komatsu is a lens-based artist living in Sydney, Australia. His works in Classic Aotearoa feature notable land and cityscapes in Aotearoa New Zealand. Many of the settings captured are no longer there, while others provide connections between place, people, and time. The photographs reflect Komatsu’s ability to capture light and shadow to reveal the buildings themselves as the grand protagonists of his imagery.

Rubbish Bodies offers a glimpse into contemporary jewellery artist Fiona Frew’s everyday life in her local Kakanui environment. She provides a significant body of works that reflect the ‘foreign’ objects found on her daily walks through the area, collaborating with te Taiao, the natural world. Frew is a multidisciplinary artist working within the realms of photography, installation, and object making.

All four current exhibitions will be showing until the 1st of September before we make way for the well loved Burns Memorial exhibition organised by our amazing gallery pouako educator Elizabeth King. You can view all existing and upcoming events and exhibitions on our website.

Noho ora mai, kia pai tō wiki!

Anna McLean
Curator Visual Arts
Forrester Gallery

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