Whanganui artist on show in Auckland
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UCOL lecturer Lynn Hurst is the only Whanganui-based artist to show at The Auckland Festival of Photography.
UCOL lecturer Lynn Hurst is the only Whanganui-based artist to show at The Auckland Festival of Photography.
Her exhibition, Artifacts, is open at the Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery in Parnell Road Auckland, until 19 June. The exhibition is part of the 8th Auckland Festival of Photography which features work by local, national and international artists, invited by the curator.
Lynn holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree and is a lecturer in the bachelor, Honours, Masters and Postgraduate Diploma programmes at UCOL”s School of Computer Graphic Design.
She was born in Denver, Colorado, grew up in Kentucky and lived in New York City, Wyoming, California and Texas before moving to Whanganui in 1993. She has exhibited previously in Whanganui, Wellington, Auckland, New Plymouth and in the United States.
The notes for her Artifacts exhibition describe her work as exploring notions of colonisation and feminism in relation to emblematic objects from the domestic sphere. “Her practice questions conventional notions of representation, combining trompe l'oeil techniques with a subversive technological approach. Scanned images are digitally sewn together, referencing traditional gender-biased media. Initially, the image appears to be a faithful reproduction; further investigation, however, reveals the points of fragmentation and reconstruction.
“This serves as a metaphor for Hurst's approach, distorting accepted ideologies to provoke a deeper analysis of our culture.”
Lynn says: “In a series of photographs and paintings, the use of traditional and digital media, I am investigating the ways in which institutional and personal memory are embedded in domestic and popular artefacts. Through the juxtaposition of imagery, scanned games, toys, clothing and painted images the resulting photographs disrupt notions of childhood innocence by exposing adult realities. They explore the notion of out-dated yet still active culturally constructed norms.”