Succulents and Concrete

A Group Show with Joe Prisk, Ammon Ngakuru, Ziggy Lever and Charlotte Drayton

Opening Thurday Feb 7, 5.30pm – runs until Saturday March 2

Consider an action: a compulsive scratching. This movement, rich in implications of sound and texture, is a familiar one. A structure relapses into original whispers of dust. A wearing of a skeletal membrane so thin that your nails almost certainly corrode any information held below the surface. Material carelessly sought. A satisfaction which reverberates, thought to motion, motion to sensation, as an interminable echo. Inevitably this action is met with a sense of loss, but not discontent. You carry on. Perhaps just to get a taste, an indication of the space behind. A part of you knew from the onset that a tool as clumsy as a fingernail could never be used reveal the nature of this marginal interval, but you told yourself otherwise. This is an excuse to justify the process. As so often happens, the silence of the in-between is overruled by the urge to articulate, a subtle component is bypassed in order to map a more facile and tangible whole.
“There is something intriguing about the silence of the incomplete, the waiting to or the given up on. A trace of some prior action is held; at the same time further action is provoked. Either way it is happening right before you, the past and the future are irrelevant.”
– Susie Hunt/Joe Prisk

Ammon Ngakuru
Selected Projects:
2012
New Artist Show pt.II — Drinking From The Firehose, ARTSPACE,(group)
Neurocore: Superpump-Xxtreme, St Paul street Gallery Three,(group)
BYOB Auckland, Snakepit (group)
Generation, Fresh Gallery Otara (group)

Charlotte Drayton
Selected Projects:
2012
New Artist Show pt.II — Drinking From The Firehose, ARTSPACE (group)
Neurocore: Superpump-Xtreme, St Paul street Gallery Three (group)
even for one instant, St Paul street Gallery Three (group)
2011
Someplace else, St Davids Church Hall (group)
Hosanna, St Kevins Arcade (group)

Joe Prisk
Selected Projects:
2012
Ex Ovo Omnia, RM Gallery, Auckland
Looking towards Snake Pit, Snakepit Gallery window space, Auckland
Kelsey Stankovich & Joe Prisk, St Paul St Gallery Three, Auckland
Walters Art Award Show, Snakepit Gallery, Auckland
2011
Volume, St Paul St Gallery Three, Auckland
2010
Two ten, Shed 10, Auckland

Ziggy Lever
Selected Projects
2012
speakeasy, Assembly Project, ST Paul St Gallery (group)
what about the bees?, Assembly Project, ST Paul ST Gallery, (moving image group)
No Money, No Problems, 5b High St (group show with dinner)
even for one instant, ST Paul St Gallery Three (group)
Eden Arts Awards, Snow White and Te Po Galleries (Overall winner)
2011
Daylight Robbery, Second Story (group)

Thanks to Lothlorien, CNZ and AUT