PROJECT: HEADS AND TAILS PATTERN FOR INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE, 2010
Digital print on self-adhesive vinyl, 2500x3800mm.
ABOUT INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE: A group exhibition at The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson by the SubART Collective - Emma Febvre-Richards, Kate Linzey, Vanessa Crowe, Wendy Neale, Lilian Mutsaers and Genevieve Packer - that interrogates the terrain between fine art and design. Infill investigates the contemporary suburban experience, with individual pieces of work forming a body that explores the desire to control and contain our environment, as well as the need to cultivate a sense of place and belonging.
ABOUT HEADS AND TAILS: In the seamlessly repeating arborescent-style wallpaper, fantastical yet familiar hybridized wildlife (pests and pals) perch simultaneously obliviously, yet menacingly, in branches over a background of traditional pattern – leaving no space unfilled. The work suggests a romanticised, yet uneasy and precarious, cohabitation between the native flora and fauna and introduced species, where to survive is to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape. True to arborescent-style wallpapers of the 1800s, this design is the product of a cultural exchange, and although inhabited by exotic flora and fauna, is firmly grounded within a New Zealand context. See more pattern here and more on Home Security blind here.
Digital print on self-adhesive vinyl, 2500x3800mm.
ABOUT INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE: A group exhibition at The Suter Art Gallery in Nelson by the SubART Collective - Emma Febvre-Richards, Kate Linzey, Vanessa Crowe, Wendy Neale, Lilian Mutsaers and Genevieve Packer - that interrogates the terrain between fine art and design. Infill investigates the contemporary suburban experience, with individual pieces of work forming a body that explores the desire to control and contain our environment, as well as the need to cultivate a sense of place and belonging.
ABOUT HEADS AND TAILS: In the seamlessly repeating arborescent-style wallpaper, fantastical yet familiar hybridized wildlife (pests and pals) perch simultaneously obliviously, yet menacingly, in branches over a background of traditional pattern – leaving no space unfilled. The work suggests a romanticised, yet uneasy and precarious, cohabitation between the native flora and fauna and introduced species, where to survive is to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape. True to arborescent-style wallpapers of the 1800s, this design is the product of a cultural exchange, and although inhabited by exotic flora and fauna, is firmly grounded within a New Zealand context. See more pattern here and more on Home Security blind here.
HEADS AND TAILS - DETAIL.
HEADS AND TAILS - DETAIL.
HEADS AND TAILS - REPEAT.
HEADS AND TAILS, INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE, THE SUTER GALLERY, NELSON.
INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE, THE SUTER GALLERY, NELSON.
INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE, THE SUTER GALLERY, NELSON.
INFILL: A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE, THE SUTER GALLERY, NELSON.
HOME SECURITY BLIND; PRECARIOUS GARDENER FENCE - VANESSA CROWE.
HOME SECURITY BLIND - DETAIL.
VANESSA CROWE: PRECARIOUS GARDENER - DETAIL.
WENDY NEALE: TOP DRAWERS.
EMMA FEBVRE-RICHARDS: LANDSKAB.
LILIAN MUTSAERS: ARRIVAL.