Group show
Wall Works
07 September – 04 October 2009
David Cauchi, Michael Harrison, Patrick Lundberg, Julia Morison, Simon Morris, Reuben Paterson, Kim Pieters, Jeena Shin
To mark the occasion of the Adam Art Gallery’s first ten years, eight artists were invited to spend ten days working directly on the walls of the gallery. Their works provided a context for the gallery’s 10th birthday party on 19 September 2009.
The gallery doors opened to the public on the first day the artists started work, allowing visitors to see the wall works in process. The exhibition provided an opportunity to see how artists respond to a space and go about realising their work within the tight constraints of a particular timeframe and an actual context.
The exhibition provided an opportunity to celebrate the gallery’s history without dwelling on our past; the temporal projects and their relationship to the site will present instances of the mobility and responsiveness to which the Adam Art Gallery aspires.
In keeping with the format of the Wall Works exhibition, students from the New Zealand School of Music were invited to produce a new sound installation between the two sets of sliding doors at the entrance of the gallery. They took field recordings and developed their composition while the wall artists were at work. The finished sound work was on exhibition from 21 September-4 October 2009.
The gallery officially celebrated its birthday with a party on Saturday 19 September. The evening was orchestrated by the performance collective Full F**king Moon of Bek Coogan and Torben Tilly, along with acts by Double Ya D.
On the night the gallery was filled with specially-commissioned temporary structures designed and built by interior architecture students of Victoria University’s School of Architecture and Design. The student radio station VBC broadcasted the event live to the city of Wellington.
Jeena Shin, Fractus, Congreve Foyer, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 8 September 2009
Jeena Shin, Fractus, Congreve Foyer, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 September 2009
Jeena Shin, Fractus, Congreve Foyer, 2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. Photo: Robert Cross
Simon Morris, Coloured line, there and back, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 8 September 2009
Simon Morris, Coloured line, there and back, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 September 2009
Simon Morris, Coloured line, there and back, 2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. Photo: Robert Cross
David Cauchi, Where art belongs, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 8 September 2009
David Cauchi, Where art belongs, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 September 2009
David Cauchi, Where art belongs, 2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. Photo: Robert Cross
Julia Morison, Myriorama #5: Wayzgoose, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 September 2009
Julia Morison, Myriorama #5: Wayzgoose, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 17 September 2009
Julia Morison, Myriorama #5: Wayzgoose, 2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. Photo: Robert Cross
Michael Harrison, Illusion of the flesh, 1999–2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 September 2009
Michael Harrison, Illusion of the flesh, 1999–2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 17 September 2009
Michael Harrison, Illusion of the flesh, 1999–2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. Photo: Robert Cross
Patrick Lundberg, Stay here and help me be quiet, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 12 September 2009
Patrick Lundberg, Stay here and help me be quiet, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 17 September 2009
Patrick Lundberg, Stay here and help me be quiet, 2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 17 September 2009
Kim Pieters, experimentum linguae, 2009. Artist installing, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 17 September 2009
Kim Pieters, experimentum linguae, 2009. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. Photo: Robert Cross
Reuben Paterson, Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua, 2005-9. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009. Photo: Robert Cross
Reuben Paterson, Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua, 2005-9. Installation view, Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009. Photo: Robert Cross