Opening night 5:30PM 28 JUNE

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After the sun came, we missed the warmth and the long afternoon shadows, but we found ways to hear its call long after it was gone. Within these new temporal gallery walls, there is a collection of clay-made objects and written words. Filtered by the now low, wintery light, they span the time of seasonal change. These works were created as a response to the spaces and places we inhabit, and how they inspire us to both gently adapt, and also push back against inherited expectations when living in an ever-accelerating world. This is a conversation between a painter and a writer. 

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Mia and Lily’s collaboration is bound by a shared interest in the adaptive practice of making art, writing, and living. They believe that being soft in a world that focuses on constant optimization and productivity is an act of political resistance.

 

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Mia Morris’s making-based practice explores the porous boundaries of abstract painting and sculpture. She is interested in translating the critical and often poetic experience of living on the South Coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, in Tapu Te Ranga, Island Bay. Exploring forms that open up a discussion around time, ecology, colour, and materiality.

 

Lily Joyce is an interdisciplinary artist with an interest in performance and writing, and recently cutting things out and sticking things together. She is trying to find ways of making that reflect socialist and rhizomatic thinking.

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Poster design by Zoe Hannay