Nicky Foreman shows new paintings at Whitespace; March 27-April 16
1 Morgan St, Newmarket 09 524 0644
" A map is not a guide to some place called home, but a sign. The salience of signs, the usefulness of them, is that they operate within systems of representation, and this has great relevance in a time when innocent landscape painting just isn't possible. Signs, maps, images themselves, tell us more about the culture that produced them than the places they point to. Foreman's art gives us directions towards art and social identity, rather than diaristic descriptions of trips down country, to the place where she grew up." extract from Directions by Damian Skinner.
www.whitespace.co.nz
Nicky Foreman shows new paintings at Whitespace; March 27-April 16
1 Morgan St, Newmarket 09 524 0644
" A map is not a guide to some place called home, but a sign. The salience of signs, the usefulness of them, is that they operate within systems of representation, and this has great relevance in a time when innocent landscape painting just isn't possible. Signs, maps, images themselves, tell us more about the culture that produced them than the places they point to. Foreman's art gives us directions towards art and social identity, rather than diaristic descriptions of trips down country, to the place where she grew up." extract from Directions by Damian Skinner.
www.whitespace.co.nz