These are workers in a neo-liberal society who have turned into strange shapes by having to go to work all the time, and forgetting what they are when they are not at work. They are modern, flattened Canoptic jars. Glamorous patterns cover the jars that hold the crusty remains of lives spent at work. The forms are built on found shapes of packaging waste, in an attempt to generate randomness.
The Back To Work series is part of the BLACK COMEDY IN PASTELS and IT STARTED WITH A KISS projects. Refer to the brief info tab for an outline of my main 3 projects. The projects jump around and fuse with each other momentarily.
 Back to Work: to the tune of You Are My Sunshine 2, 2018, haplessly trudging to work 
Back To Work: Stooks
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Back To Work: to the tune of you are my sunshine 1
Curious Trophies, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, 2015
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| Briscoes1017613001 9-419771-097279 $17.99 Parkin Drawing Prize Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, 2015 |
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Briscoes1017613001 9-419771-097279 $17.99 is about Information Space being shrunk to fit commercial containers. Like the shrinking of the diversity of the environments inside, and outside, of our minds in techno- bureaucratic cities. There is a commercial container for |
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Back To Work, The Same But Different
Arts Gold Awards 2015 Exhibition,
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Otago |
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Thin Slices: the 5th member of A Black Comedy in Pastels
2015 Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award Exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Auckland
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