CGI – Caroline Gore, oxidised silver & steel cable

2007, 40 x30mm

Fran Allison, silver, 2007, 20x18mm

photography: Stella Chrysostomou

Gavin Hitchings, silver , 2007

40x28x28mm

Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery

Fran Allison, Andrea Daly, Peter Deckers, Karl Fritsch, Caroline Gore, Gavin Hitchings, Erik Kuiper, Sean O’Connell, and Lisa Walker

18 October 2008 – 22 March 2009

LIKE is a curatorial experiment that explores interpretation and translation across different artistic fields and media. This project was the initiative of Nelson based artist and curator, Stella Chrysostomou and it is framed as a scientific experiment into the processes of making.
The experiment began with the selection of an object that was simple and geometric but ambiguous in shape and function. This object was then described in written form by leading New Zealand poet, Bill Manhire. This description was then sent to nine national and international jewellers – Fran Allison, Andrea Daly, Peter Deckers, Karl Fritsch, Caroline Gore, Gavin Hitchings, Erik Kuiper, Sean O’Connell, and Lisa Walker – who were asked to interpret and ‘decipher’ the object based on Manhire’s text. This exhibition presents the original object along with the resulting pieces made by the nine jewellers, and Bill Manhire’s text, in an intriguing display that encourages viewers to closely examine the creative process of object making.

Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery

65 Marine Parade/9 Herschell Street
PO Box 248
Napier
New Zealand