"Mary-Louise Browne : REIFY"
2010-07-13 until 2010-08-07
Bartley and Company Art
Auckland, , NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa)

Bartley and Company Art presents MARY-LOUISE BROWNE : REIFY from 13 July to 7 August 2010 in Auckland. Mary-Louise Browne spent the first third of this year on an artist residency at the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan. Working predominantly with Taiwanese greenstone, she explored ideas around commemoration and the memorial and souvenir. These ideas continue to play out in her new exhibition opening next week.

The experience of living in Asia for a few months is also reflected in the work, albeit indirectly. Browne says her encounter with Chinese iconography – where signs and symbols often represent ideas – led her to reading and thinking more about how things and ideas are described visually. She was also interested in the way mottoes and maxims are employed, both aspirationally and inspirationally in east and west. Thus this exhibition comprises two related bodies of works – one a series of maxims stitched in gold lettering on damask linen and the other, a series of ideas about representation inscribed on brass plaques. In Reify abstract notions are brought into being as objects.

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