14 April – 30 May, 2021
AV Gallery
This work has been made in response to the past, present and future of this site, residing together here on Whataroa Pā. A collision of reality and re-presentation, the works weave themselves together under 13 full moons between December 2019 and January 2020. To Have and Not to Hold is also the title of a projection, placed exactly where an outside window exists in the Italianate Victorian colonial architecture of the building. The window faces sou’-sou’-east, the viewer sees a re-presentation of Māngere, the land ‘acquired’ for crucial international airport, (Ihumātao also stands in that direction). In Metermudd, a projection in the fireplace, the land is counting.
This exhibition is supported by the James Wallace Arts Trust and Jan Warburton Charitable Trust and is in association with the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic. Annette Brown is the 2019 recipient of the James Wallace & Jan Warburton Graduate Exhibition Scholarship.
One of the greatest hurdles for any fine arts graduate embarking on a career as a professional artist is to secure opportunities to exhibit in Auckland and/or to be represented by an Auckland commercial gallery. This Scholarship provides selected graduating students with an opportunity to exhibit at the prestigious Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead in Auckland, including a targeted introduction to the Auckland art market.
Annette Brown is an Auckland-based artist currently exploring video sculptural artworks. She graduated from the Dunedin School of Art in 2019 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours). Brown is in her first year of a Master of Visual Arts at AUT, Auckland. In 2019, Brown exhibited her seminal work Air Aunty at Mokopōpaki, Auckland, in the group show Domestic #3: Ahimaru.
The artist acknowledges the Tangata Whenua – Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Tamaoho, Te Ākitai Waiohua, her Iwi Ngāti Whatua O Kaipara, and the support of Otago Polytech, Jan Warburton, Mokopōpaki, Maree Wilson, Rob Hanks, and her family.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Delma’s Youngest58 was born in Takapuna, Auckland and attended Bayswater Primary School. The artist’s left-of-field leadership skills in the lunchtime Pūriri Berry Wars assured a zoned out enrolment at Rangitoto College. There, academic recommendations that Delma’s Youngest58 “turn around, face the front, and stop talking” were recycled. The artist’s growing fame jettisoned somewhere. That same year, after dadaist experimentation with purple eyeliner, Delma’s Youngest58 was moon-rocked into the Performance Art world of her Mum’s traditional hula classes. Critics were suitably stunned.
Lowlights to date:
• Record for Most Hot Lunches Made in Only Half an Hour (2000) – Primary Milford Society
• Council of Awarded Top Tickets Gallery AND the Takapuna Police Stationery Award Scholarship for Fastest Unregistered Auckland After School Taxi (2005). An astounding achievement for 10 years running, resulting in the follow up project – Only 20 Demerits to Go (2015).
• Round Up and Go Home Private Collection, Forrest Hill Museum of Art 120 Teenagers Partying in a Garage (2011). Participating critics noted the artist’s highly skilled postmodern grip and unusual flicking technique of the everyday object, the tea towel.
• Aunties Scholarship, Northern Division – Raw Fish Salad with Boiled Snapper Heads for Lunch Sculptural Assemblage, A community funded work, including the neighbours.
• Finally to date the tightly held all round:
Procrastination Achievement Award 2020.
Invitations to exhibit at major museums around the globe have been put on ice thanks to COVID-19, (and reduced retail hours at the furniture shop).