17 June – 18 September
Exhibition Opening 17 June, 6-8pm
Ground Floor Galleries
A presentation of selected works by artists connected in practice, METHOD is about making as a habit - or as a love affair - supported by key pieces from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and housed at the Pah Homestead. METHOD is also an exhibition of rapture, of the artists featured, and of the artist-curators Eliza Webster and Michael Prosee.
METHOD is the bottling of shared enthusiasm towards the sleepless, fighting need to create. A group exhibition, and an organic meeting point of practices, ideas and narrative, METHOD follows a staged series of chain reactions that rely on the fundamentals of making as a craft - colour, shape, content, line, surface. It uses simple devices - coloured walls, directed viewing - to celebrate prolific making as something human and urgent about art. It is unique in that it also builds from and with the curatorial and exhibition technician roles of Eliza and Michael (in Kirikiriroa and Tāmaki Makaurau respectively). METHOD, then, is also collaboration between curators, artists, and spaces, exploring the elements of two working arrangements and creative curiosities pulling together to create something novel, whimsical, and suspenseful that carries us.
About the Curators
Eliza Webster (b. 1993, Bachelor of Media Arts (Visual Arts), Waikato Institute of Technology) is an exhibition maker and advocate based in Kirikiriroa. Co-director of Never Project Space (FKA Skinroom) (2015 - 2022), and past director of the Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, Webster’s curatorial practice revolves around emerging and mid-career contemporary artists with experimental, sociological and colourful practices spread over many mediums - painting, objects, film, photography, music and installation.
Eliza is also an exhibition technician at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, a picture framer and freelance art installer.
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Michael Prosee is a curator and exhibition technician based at Pah Homestead in Hillsborough, Tamaki Makaurau. A ceramics enthusiast and prolific maker in his own right, Michael’s curatorial practice centres in a respect for the delicate but deliberate marks and measures within artworks.
Michael is an avid painter and ceramicist. He advocates for other artists through entrepreneurial efforts, advice, and by creating platforms and opportunities for up and coming makers within Tamaki Makaurau.