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Last Light in the Garden


  • Dowling St Studios 20 Dowling Street Dunedin, Otago, 9016 New Zealand (map)

Opening night chat (courtesy of Emily Lucas)

Last Light, Dunedin Botanical Gardens, oil on canvas, 150 x 110cm

My new collection is drawn from the labyrinthian pathways that form the Upper Gardens of Dunedin’s Botanical Garden. The title 'Last Light in the Garden' refers to the mythological expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. It's a meditation on my feelings of climate crisis anxiety. Wherever you look, across all forms of media, it appears we are facing the very real threat of compounding species extinction and therefore looming expulsion of the human race from Planet Earth. Last Light meaning Last Chance to fix the problems we all face. A dour topic, yes. I hope the works are beautiful but not without an undercurrent of apprehension, this immovable weighted shadow. Who's to say the end of the world wouldn't be a beautiful cataclysm anyway?

The exhibition is now closed at The Dowling St Studios and has moved to The Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery until 26th March.

All inquires to michelle@theartistsroom.co.nz

Earlier Event: July 29
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Later Event: January 12
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