exhibition review - paper boats mentioned

Extract from the Otago Daily Times, Dunedin 12th Feb - by Chanelle Carick. My paper boats that I have on display to generate interest in N Z are mentioned in today's review...right at the end!

HeARTbeat, group exhibition (Community Gallery Dunedin)

The current exhibition at the community gallery brings together the work of local artists with an interest in sustainability, both in everyday life and the production of art.

Recycled materials, from mirrors to blankets, along with sustainably-produced wool and low-toxicity printing inks among other unconventional materials, are given a new life in the hands of these artists.

The resulting objects are both beautiful and in several cases functionally practical, while containing an underlying message of reuse, reinvention and environmental awareness.

Some artists, such as Jacque Ruston and Katie Whitefield, have utilised found objects as grounds on which to develop their own distinct and personal means of expression.

Simone Montgomery draws on the tradition of "waste not, want not," transforming hand-me-down blankets into unique satchels and bags.

Lynn Taylor's intricately folded and delicate paper boats float gracefully in the window. They are part of an artistic project which documents the journey of the ship Westland from Scotland to Dunedin in 1879, created out of materials relating to the New Zealand context of that journey.