Christina Read

Nick Austin and Christina Read, curated by Megan Dunn, with an artist’s book by Megan Dunn and Evangeline Riddiford Graham.
McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. 04.04.2018 - 28.04.2018, 
Photographs by Russell Kleyn

This body of work was created out of the Olivia Spencer Bower Award, a year-long residency in Christchurch, (2016). The exhibition, 1. Here’s a Plan (things to do)  (2017) was based on making plans, plans for exhibitions that I had not yet made, inspired by chapter titles from a narrative nonfiction book that I had yet to write. The works were about ideas, plans and optimistic ambitions.

Ilam Campus Gallery, SOFA, University of Canterbury. 2017

Catalogue

ArtNewZealand - Holly Best Review

The Press (Christchurch) - Warren Feeney Review

The Brain

This was a exhibition of video works curated by myself and presented within a sculptural installation, designed and constructed by artist Paul Cullen. The Brain could be seen as an idiosyncratic spatial and conceptual diagram of a brain, using video to map questions both academic and amateur. Seventeen single-channel video works will explore themes including; landscapes of perception and cognition, tangible thoughts, altered states, phantom limbs, TV brains, dream archives, memory files, and the mind body connection.

The Brain is commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aoteoroa New Zealand in partnership with Te Uru with the assistance of Creative New Zealand. 

Artists: Paul Cullen, Megan Dunn, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ronnie Van Hout, Laresa Kosloff, Owen Kydd, Sonya Lacey, Colie Leung, Richard Maloy, Michael Nicholson, Kim Pieters, Rachel Shearer, Daniel Von Sturmer, Rainer Weston and Layne Waerea.

all photos by Sam Hartnett samhartnett.com

Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ 2013

Eyecontact review by Megan Dunn

Publication

Rm Gallery, Auckland, 2012

EyeContact Review by John Hurrell

This was a temporary outdoor installation in which my aim was to configure a group of sculptures which stood out against the Waiheke backdrop. I created six sculptures. Some were blob-like and slightly monstrous in their form, whilst others were gentler forms. All were brightly coloured. I was interested in evoking the idea of a children’s play area gone awry. The title alluded to the possibility that the objects are clues as to ‘how to be happy’, which in itself suggested someone was not entirely satisfied with their lot. I was therefore interested in the duality of this statement. 

http://www.sculptureonthegulf.co.nz/

Sporting brought together works by Christina Read, Danielle Foster, Jack Hadley, Joshua Harris-Harding, Lucy Meyle, Kate Russell and Hannah Valentine that address in different ways, those attitudes and artefacts of competition that shape - win or lose - our everyday. 

DEMO; 21 Shaddock Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland