Louise Menzies – Exhibition poster; and In an orange my mother was eating, 2019, Digital video, 3:21
3 December – 14 February
First Floor Galleries
This exhibition presents a series of works made during Louise Menzies’ 2018 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and engagement with the Hocken Collections. In them the mechanics of an artistic life and the conditions that maintain one are presented for consideration through reference to Joanna Margaret Paul, M. C. Richards and Frances Hodgkins herself.
Louise Menzies is an Auckland-based artist whose works often respond to particular artefacts and histories that explore past and present. Her cross-media practice regularly incorporates a range of materials presented within installed environments, as well as the use of other public platforms beyond that of the exhibition. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: In an Orange my mother was eating, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin (2019), Gorgon Malkin Witch, Te Uru, Auckland (2017), Primordial Saber Tararear Proverbiales Sílabas Tonificantes…, Regen Projects, LA (2017), Potentially Yours: The coming community, Artspace, Auckland (2016), and This is not filmmaking: Artists work for cinema, City Gallery, Wellington (2016). In 2018 Louise was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, following residencies in Auckland, the US, Australia and Mexico.
