Courtesy of NZ Herald 06.10.2004

By Andrew Clifford

Among the ominous, apocalyptic visions projected into Australian artist Susan Norrie's Undertow installation is a pink-toned image of a child held aloft on an adult's shoulders among the spring blossoms of Tokyo.

Catastrophic undercurrent

Image: Still from Undertow

Also Philip Dadson artist talk on Polar Projects (7/10/04 at 5.30pm) at Gus Fisher...Courtesy of NZ Herald 06.10.2004

By Andrew Clifford

Among the ominous, apocalyptic visions projected into Australian artist Susan Norrie's Undertow installation is a pink-toned image of a child held aloft on an adult's shoulders among the spring blossoms of Tokyo.

Catastrophic undercurrent

Image: Still from Undertow

Also Philip Dadson artist talk on Polar Projects (7/10/04 at 5.30pm) at Gus Fisher...You are warmly welcomed along to the Gus Fisher Gallery on Thursday night -
Thursday 7th October at 5.30pm

Floor talk by Philip Dadson

Let Philip introduce you to Polar Projects, a series driven by a uniquely sonic vision.   Antarctica's wide white landscape is revealed as an extraordinary soundscape in this project by Philip Dadson. Winner of a recent New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award for his work as a sound artist, Dadson is presenting works derived from his 2003 trip to the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica.  

In Polar Projects, Dadson offers his vision of a place that looks and sounds like no other on earth - a place so remote, so staggering in its scale, and so changeable in its forms that it defies conventional description. In Dadson's work - video, sound and installation - audiences are alerted to extraordinary qualities of sound in found and familiar materials. In this Antarctic region of comparative silence, sound and the influence of active polarities continue to direct the way he sees and experiences the environment.     Polar Projects was generously supported by Antarctica NZ, Creative NZ and Sony NZ Ltd.

Polar Projects is being exhibited simultaneously with Susan Norrie's Undertow.  Both of these exhibitions will close on 13 November.