Zina Swanson
Something In Waiting, 2016
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Zina Swanson
Something In Waiting, 2016
Swanson has been commissioned to create a new work especially for Precarious Balance in the North Gallery. She often uses drawing and sculpture as a method of teasing out abstract ideas; this work explores rituals and superstitions surrounding luck, power and the relationship between people and plants. There is a measured yet organic approach to her works - an unsettling balance between the natural and man-made. Swanson has contrasted the architecture of the gallery with the bodily scale and fragility of her sculptures and drawings. The grandiose pyramid-shaped skylights host delicate handmade ceramic ‘s’ hooks that trail down to meet a dried four leaf clover in a gesture of hopefulness in the face of futility.
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Something In Waiting, 2016, Zina Swanson
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Something In Waiting, 2016, Zina Swanson
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Artworks
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Sione Faletau
Ha’amonga ‘a Maui, 2015
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Erwin Wurm
One Minute Sculpture, 2005/2014
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Joanna Langford
Calling the Deep, 2015
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Abigail Reynolds
National Gallery 1974/2000, 2012
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Matt Calderwood
Untitled, 2016
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Shaun Gladwell
Storm Sequence, 2000
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Richard Maloy
Big Yellow, 2013
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John Ward Knox
Untitled, 2011
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Rob Hood
Big Bull Market, 2016
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Catherine Yass
High Wire, 2008
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Claire Fontaine
Foreigners Everywhere (Southern Māori), 2015
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Peter Trevelyan
Circularism, 2016
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Zina Swanson
Something In Waiting, 2016
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Regan Gentry
Christchurch-church-church, 2004
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