Dunedin School of Art students Tomas Richards and Rachel
Hope react to sculpture student Aston Christie's Reptillian
Agenda at "Site 2011" yesterday. Photo by Gregor
Richardson.
The sometimes weird and always wonderful world of the
Dunedin School of Art will be opened to the public tomorrow.
More than 60 works by final-year visual arts, fine arts and
diploma students feature in the six-day "Site 2011"
exhibition.
"It's a big show. It's covering most of the art school this
year," sculpture lecturer Scott Eady said yesterday.
The exhibition features works by students in the nine studio
areas in the school, including ceramics, electronic arts,
jewellery and metalsmithing, painting, photography,
printmaking, sculpture and textiles.
Some of the more unusual exhibits this year include a
selection of bee jewellery, a felt room, PVA wood-glue
sculptures and an extraterrestrial-looking man-trap made from
melted plastic toys, and accompanied by a video of the toys
being deconstructed and reconstructed.
Other outstanding exhibits are an animated film by Jo Worley
of the 1928 Italia airship crash at the North Pole and
photography student Agata Michalczyk's images documenting her
past decade in New Zealand as a Polish immigrant in "Ten".
"I love this time of the year, ... only the good stuff's
here," head of sculpture Michele Beevors said yesterday.
"Site 2011" in Riego St (off Albany St near Anzac Ave) opens
at 2pm tomorrow and runs till Thursday next week. Admission
is free. Many exhibits are for sale.
- nigel.benson@odt.co.nz
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