WOVEN

WOVEN

David Trubridge & Peata Larkin 30 June - 25 July 2012

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

milford galleries queenstown 9A Earl Street (03) 442 6896 qtown@milfordgalleries.co.nz

1. DAVID TRUBRIDGE, Tipu I (Bush) (2012) composit of biop

plastic & flax fibres, light fitting, size (ø x d): 1590 x 320 mm

2. DAVID TRUBRIDGE, Tipu II (Grass) (2012) composit of bio

oplastic & flax fibres, light fitting, size (ø x d): 1630 x 380 mm

3. DAVID TRUBRIDGE, Tipu III (Spiral) (2012) composit of bio

oplastic & flax fibres, light fitting, size (ø x d): 1690 x 350 mm

4. PEATA LARKIN, PATIKITIKI FLOW (Black_2011) acrylic on mesh on plexiglass, frame: 1000 x 600 x 60 mm

5. PEATA LARKIN, PATIKITIKI FLOW (White_2011) acrylic on mesh on plexiglass, frame: 1012 x 613 x 60 mm

6. PEATA LARKIN, KARU HAPUKU ABC (Black_2011) acrylic on mesh on plexiglass, frame: 773 x 773 x 60 mm

7. PEATA LARKIN, KARU HAPUKU 010 (Black_2011) acrylic on mesh on plexiglass, frame: 998 x 599 x 60 mm

8. PEATA LARKIN, KARU HAPUKU 010 (White_2011) acrylic on mesh on plexiglass, frame: 998 x 599 x 60 mm

Woven is an exhibition of textures and light, uniting the ‘raw sophistication’ of David Trubridge with the abstracted weaving patterns and tactility of Peata Larkin.

David Trubridge needs no introduction as an internationally acclaimed furniture designer. He has also received extraordinary acknowledgement for his lights – including being judged best of the year in 2006 by the French editors of “Elle Décor” magazine. His designs are in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum and numerous others; he was listed in 2008 as one of the top 15 designers of the world.

Trubridge is exhibiting three brand-new, unique sculptural scale abstract forms.

These are also delicate and entrancing lights. They are generically titled Tipu (meaning swelling or lump) and then further identified by the naturalistic reference that comprises the design language of each work – bush, grass, spiral.

Each work has profoundly different sensations, presence and shadow patterns.

They have been made using a (sustainable) pioneering formulation made from plant material and NZ flax fibre. The works express their organic origins and naturalistic impulses with the overlays and lattice character of each work defining, interceding and fracturing the soft role played by light and shadow as the forms flow, spin and come to deepen.

Peata Larkin has risen to national prominence through building complex visual matrices that link the traditions of Maori weaving patterns to the morphing digital world. Her works explore the phenomenon of light and colour, using the sculptural qualities and tactility of paint.

All of Larkin’s five works in Woven are backed by clear plexiglass. A shadow play of weave and pattern occurs. The works seem to float or hover in space away from the wall. This quality is further enhanced by the receding and advancing nature of each work. There is duality everywhere in her work – metaphors of light and dark, the dialogues of old and new.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

DAVID TRUBRIDGE 1

Tipu I (Bush) (2012)

14,000

2

Tipu II (Grass) (2012)

15,500

3

Tipu III (Spiral) (2012)

16,500

PEATA LARKIN 4

PATIKITIKI FLOW (Black_2011)

5,500

5

PATIKITIKI FLOW (White_2011)

5,500

6

KARU HAPUKU ABC (Black_2011)

5,500

7

KARU HAPUKU 010 (Black_2011)

5,500

8

KARU HAPUKU 010 (White_2011)

5,500

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition