Whitecliffe's
St Georges Bay Rd Gallery
Plants are present in our every day lives.
Some, like those defined within a garden, engage our consciousness. But many we
are not aware of. They are simply there; forming and changing backgrounds and
textures in the world around us.
Through the process of collecting these
incidental plants photographing, printing and installing them, I have been
exploring the notion of view point; our attitudes towards certain plant groups
and how our perceptions of them change in space and over time. Questioning how we
consider these plants (as a resource, as irksome, as beautiful) and how those
perceptions are formed and changed. This has led me to create new images of
plants that, though barely present, are plentiful and vigorous within their own
environment.
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| Cirsium bansheeii |
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| Rubus phantomii |
For these works, plants were gathered from the roadside, just outside my house. This is the main road into Hunua and was established in mid 1800s. Along this piece of road there was the blacksmith, a general store and post-office, distributing goods from the city into the country. Now the water pipe for Auckland runs alongside this road, distributing the country's bounty back to the city. But the plants are constant.
Some of these plants gathered will have arrived at the time of construction of this road, bought here, intentionally and unintentionally, by road workers and the first settlers.
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Gatherings
(ongoing) - #1-15
Glass, screenprint, shelf. 2014
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Shifting Sight
# 2
(from a series of 15)
Digital print on fine art paper. 2014
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1 Cirsium
spookii
2 Cirsium
bansheeii
3
Cyperus dashii
4 Daucus
soulii
5 Jacobeae
faintii
6 Leucanthemum
ghostii
7 Ligustrum
glimmerii
8 Phytolacca
hintii
9 Plantago
impressionii
10 Raphanus
presenceii
11 Rubus
phantomii
12 Solanum
spiritii
13 Sonchus
whisperii
14 Ulex
traceii
15 Verbena
genieii
(note the plates are not displayed in the
order listed above)
Elle Anderson
July 2014
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