21 Feb – 26 March 2020
Geoff Wilson Gallery, NorthTec Campus, Whangārei, Aotearoa

Ghosts photographic print by Ashleigh Taupaki. 42.0 x 59.4 cm
I te huringa kōmuri, e haramā te whenua i te kēhua
On looking back, the land was covered white with ghosts
Hauraki proverb
Over 50 works in diverse media on themes of proverbs and sayings by artists based in Aotearoa and beyond, curated by Sonja van Kerkhoff with 3rd year NorthTec year students.
Artists

Animal Picnic, Archival Lambda print, 1 out of edition of 3
by Andrea Gardner. 82 x 57 cm
(click for a larger view)
Andrea Gardner, Whanganui
Ashleigh Taupaki, Auckland
Brenda Liddiard, Auckland
Brit Bunkley, Whanganui
Carolyn Lye,
Karetu, The Far North
Catrina Sutter,
Russell / Kororāreka
Chiara Rubino,
Matera, Italy
Cle Tukuitonga, Otangaroa, The Far North

Chiara Rubino, photographic print, 28 x 21 cm
Buona e’ la neve che a suo tempo viene
Good is the snow that comes in its time
Chiara Rubino photographs her home city, Matera, a UNESCO heritage city in southern Italy.
London, UK
Giacomo Silvano,
Irsina, Italy
Hilda Simetin, Auckland
Jacqueline Wassen, Maastricht,
The Netherlands
Jamie Larnach, Auckland
Jarred Taylor + others, Whangārei
Jeff Thomson, Helensville
Joas Nebe, Germany

Jeff Thomson, 3 piece assemblage
“There’s No Iron So Hard That Rust Won’t Fret It;
and There’s No Cloth So Fine That Moths Won’t Eat It.” Scottish Proverb

Joas Nebe, still, The Shareholder´s Room, video, 3 min 45 sec
Man steigt nicht zweimal in denselben Fluß
You Cannot Step Into the Same River Twice
Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC, Greece)
John Mulholland, Warkworth
Maartje Zandboer, The Hague,
The Netherlands
Naomi Roche, Waikato
Lipika Sen & Prabhjyot Majithia, Auckland
Peter Scott, Kerikeri
Piet Nieuwland, Whangārei
Robert Brown, Whangaparaoa
Sam Melser, Auckland
Sonja van Kerkhoff, Kawakawa
Tash Nikora, Whangārei
Tracy Singer, Auckland
Ursula Christel (Mokopōpaki), Warkworth

Yllwbro Te Ara ki Rangihoua: The Way to Rangihoua, 2018 Scallop shells, brown string, moko adhesive.
Courtesy the artists and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
Geoff Wilson Gallery, NorthTec, Gate 3, 51 Raumanga Valley Road, Whangarei
Opening 4-7p.m., 21 Feb 2020
open: 12 – 4 p.m. Wednesdays – Fridays,
and by appointment.
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