POST-DIGITAL PRIMITIVE

Opening 5 June 

6 June - 12 July

Post-Digital Primitive is an exhibition of work from a selection of Hamilton artists who have been invited to explore the art of the stencil. It’s a celebration of the simple, and sometimes not so simple, hands on sign art that makes the stencil special. The theme is based in the analogue art of mark making in and beyond the digital era and harking back to ancient cave drawings. The exhibition is curated by Marama Mayrick and Glen Leslie.

Artists Featured are:

Alister Selliman

Olga Hedwig Krause

Jared Benwell

Anna Claire

Moi

Sam Rulz

Marama Mayrick

Glen Leslie

The opening event includes a performance by the Venomous Mic Technicians. Refreshments available, and thanks to our catering and refreshment sponsors, Rocket Cafe and Bar101. Bar101 will act as the venue for the Post-Digital Primitive opening from 7.30pm.

  Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice

An all-female group show that aggregated the retro-appeal of girlhood objects and fantasies, and comments - wistfully and ominously - on the nature of remembrance and the potency of the female imagination.

Including works by Jodi Collins (and curator), Hilary Elliot, K.A.M.A, Janey Askew, and Lesley Robb, Sugar and Spice was a multimedia exhibition configured to the Ariki Gallery space; and construed to act upon one’s tactile and imaginative proclivities. The direction the works take can often be dark: questioning what once was; and how, through grown-older eyes, we interpret the sweet chaos of youth.

Also at Ariki at this time was a local zine edited by Amanda Grubner. You Are What You Speak is a creative zine that was launched alongside the Sugar and Spice project. You Are What You Speak can be obtained through Ariki Gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

Gallery hours are 10.30am-4pm, Wednesday - Saturday.

The Paintroom Project by Ruth Hickman.

Ariki Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting a site-specific installation work by Hamilton-based artist Ruth Hickman.

Hickman uses colour, and its absence, as a means of playing with the light of a particular space. For her Ariki Gallery work, she has worked the walls like a massive canvas, and colour drips from ceiling to wall and envelopes the viewer in her investigation of the site as a receptacle of light. Inherent in Hickman’s approach is an economy of construction - where is the light coming from; and by what contrivance is it obtained? - and so she also comments on the intent of the space.

The space has had many incarnations; as office, as sleepout for Hare Krishna adherents and restaurant employees, and now as Ariki Gallery. Hickman’s installation transforms this space again, and speaks of it with colour, barely distinguishable brushstrokes, and watery splashes; lovely and strange.

Details of the larger work will be available as 8 x 12cm photographic prints. They are for sale by Ariki Gallery for $25 per print.

The Paintroom Project runs from March 8 until April 7.