Reframing the Peninsula
We protect what we know; we know what we see. Like Banks Peninsula itself, the artists in this exhibition work within constraints. Restricted palettes and materials form a shared language, shaping varied responses to the contained yet loose, raw natural features of Horomaka/Banks Peninsula.
Engaging with both the physical landscape and its natural elements, the artists’ work seeks to reframe current relationships with the places we inhabit. Their collaborative practices encompass abstract interpretations of local forms and materials, alongside considered engagement with the less conventionally aesthetic endemic plants and animals of the peninsula.
These approaches reflect a broader contemporary shift toward ecological awareness and attentiveness to the local environment. Through their work, the artists bring the natural world to the foreground of human attention, inviting a move away from notions of ownership or detached observation, and toward an understanding of humans as participants within a shared ecosystem.
