Photo: ©. Ralph Nashawaty - Mark Henley, Staying Abreast, 2010
NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS ABROAD 10.08.2010 – 04.09.2010
Conor Clarke | Trenton Garratt | Mark Henley | Veronica Manchego | Cam O’Connell
Daire Sanat (Istanbul) hosts a group show of New Zealand Artists working abroad. Drawn from practice in Berlin, NYC and Istanbul I COULD HAVE SWORN I, is a multimedia show exploring the inconsistency between fact, and the memory of the fact. Prosthetic memory and Phantom Limb Syndrome couple to create the shows curatorial focus; how we perceive ‘experience’ within a media saturated reality.
The show is facilitated by Mark Henley (The Russian Frost Farmers, NZ) and made possible by generous support from Hall architectural interiors (Istanbul)
Full curatorial text and artist bio’s available here.
Opening : 10th August, Tuesday / 19:00 / Daire Sanat
Artist talk : 14th August, Saturday / 16:00 / Daire Sanat
For contact regarding this international show please contact mark@therussianfrostfarmers.com
Archive for the ‘Farmers’ Category
FROST FARMING ISTANBUL
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Bump bandage
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
an old sketch from from the farmers archive. artist unknown
(iST) a question of INTEGRITY
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Photo: ©. Ralph Nashawaty
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Mark Henley, Integrity: Structural and otherwise, 2010 (Mirror, timber and plastic)
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY -
Henley’s practice engages commonly found objects to create assemblages or bricolage. For Uncertainty: Istanbul he employs the reflectivity of mirror to create an illusionary effect for a series of ‘half’ objects. The reflection completes the symmtery of the ornate plastic forms where the other half does not literally exist, yet the Simit masa’s (Pretzel street vendor table) mirrored visual aligns with a second table beneath creating an unnerving sense of illusion. Integrity: Structural and otherwise, highlights Henley’s predisposition to the use of ubiquitous objects from local surroundings to prompt a re-questioning of their latent values.
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Mark Henley is an Artist / Facilitator currently living in Istanbul and co-founder of The Russian Frost Farmers.
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View details of the public art project here.
BILLY T’ - CONSPIRACY
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The shades don’t disguise the fact. Billy T’ is alive and kicking to a new beat. Holed up in Mexico, James makes ends meet with his alter ego, a ‘Mexican Bandit’ the Tainui Kid from ‘85 cult hit Came a hot Friday (watch) . Here he is featured on the cover of Nortec Collective’s (listen) 2005 release ,Tijuana Sessions Vol.3. Their blend of Mexico and Techno takes the accordian into yet to be defined territories. Shame Billy T’ didn’t tour with them to WOMAD, New Plymouth this year… next time huh.
Mark
Firestarters
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
A few piks from the recent opening of James Robinson - Palimpsest with Black Boned Angel.
Gallery NOW open - Wednesday to Saturday 11am - 4pm
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THE REAL FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
Friday, June 25th, 2010
‘(Gary McCormick)… the ‘John Travolta’ of New Zealand Poetry’ - The Listener, 1980
FROM NZONSCREEN WEBSITE
Artists Prepare, Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick (click to view)
Short Film, 1980
Surely the precursor to NZ’s hottest export FOTC, the Hunt / McCormick duet live the life even moreso than Jermaine and Bret. Surpassing the PG rating, Artists Prepare takes a joyride with two dashingly charismatic quintessential thespians in full flight…
‘We’ve gotta worry bout the second half…. we’ve shot our load so to speak, well at least I have’ - G. MCCORMICK
The bygone era of poetry, pubs and unbridled flamboyance. When leopard print was not an option, but a necessity. The tight black jeans are back, but wheres the honest alcoholism and womanizing?
Hunt / MCormick icons of extroversion.
Mark
BLACK BONED ANGEL, LIVE 26TH JUNE AT THE FARMERS
Monday, June 21st, 2010
BLACK BONED ANGEL is CAMPBELL KNEALE and JAMES KIRK
They produce a kind of transcendence as if time stopped and all the pylons in outer suburbia gathered together all the heaviest metal band albums from under every Iron Maiden t shirt wearing long hairs nose, flew them to Scandinavia and feed them to Agorogoths brain while he was in a mental hospital that he came out shitting his pants to thought of having to milk one of his own goats again.
What Im trying to say is that im not as bad ass as I guy called Agorogoth from some mountainous Scando village but i reckon he would be impressed with this amount of impending Doom.
I have seen these guys live a couple of times and i always feel like im a leaf, being blown across an ocean, not sure were im gonna land or if ill ever even find land again.
If you have the stamina and like the word experience, you my friend are in for a treat because
BLACK BONED ANGEL are playing on the 26th June at THE RUSSIAN FROST FARMERS #2 Eva St, Wellington, 6pm, as part of PALIMPSEST a JAMES ROBINSON EXHIBITION.
shannon
JAMES ROBINSON INTERVIEW
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
JAMES ROBINSON, interviewed by Shannon Reed.©
James is having an exhibition at The Russian Frost Farmers Gallery In Wellington on the 26th of June, Hes Been art making his way through New Zealand since 1989, Exhibiting in every corner, he may have even exhibited in your uncles basement, who knows. He has lived all over New Zealand but has recently come to Wellington from Wanganui.
James even won something called the Wallace award for his mixed media work “Taniwha/Dragon” and was given a 6 month residency in New York.
Simply put James is an artist who literally puts everything he has into his work, while drawing through Nepal or painting in Dunedin, James will give it everything, and it shows.
Not only all this he is a super nice guy who has also agreed for an interview.
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