The Staircase
February 24 - March 24, 2024
Waiheke Island, Auckland
Sculpture on the Gulf




Guy, whose practice is interested in the legacy of mid-century modernism, was drawn to this moment of misrecognition as a sign of modernism’s enduring influence within architectural design. The Staircase paraphrases this handrail design again as a sculptural object, a peculiar armature that calls up Scarpa’s spectre to Waiheke, where many examples of faux modernist residencies can be found, perhaps bearing his influence without knowing it.






The Imaginary Mountain
February 3 - March 31, 2024
Kirikiriroa - Hamilton
Boon Sculpture Trail



Referencing the architecture of Hamiltonian Rod Smith (1933 - 2023) and the influence on his work of the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto (1898 – 1976). Inspired by their natural environments, both architects designed jagged rooflines suggesting mountain ranges. The sculpture combines the rooflines of Smith’s Te Rahui Tane Hostel in Hamilton and Aalto’s Santa Maria Assunta in Riola di Vergato, Italy.




Blue Fleur. Natalie Guy & Sandra Bushby
Feburary 4 - March 1, 2023
Depot
April 28 - May 26, 2023
Olga


“Looking to the Stations of the Cross, Guy considers the meditated
or framed view, through which she approaches the compositional
definitions in the Stations. She chimes with Paul’s peculiar colour symbolism,
creating cut-out shapes to reference the figures. Literal windows in
Guy’s sculptural pieces echo Paul’s mediated view: the hinged
doors and windows in the poem, and the formal framings of the Stations”. 
Joanna Osborne



 



Free-standing metal sculptures and stained glass assemblages echo the bright opacity of writer and artist Joanna Margaret Paul’s stations of the cross at St Mary’s Star of the Sea in Port Chalmers, Dunedin. They define shape and space while incorporating negative (white) space, and translucency. Like Paul’s typography they intend to elude direct reading by simultaneously referencing and defamiliarizing the subject.







Brise Soleil
2023
Brick Bay







The Weight of the Door
July 27 - August 20, 2022
Sumer 




Using the bronze door handle from Notre-Dame du Haut as its source—La Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp, France—The Weight of the Door presents a series of objects that the artist describes as translations. This fragment of the chapel structure, isolated, removed its vitrine surround.The bronze form appears here as a series of distortions. Horizontal and vertical iterations of varying lengths and proportions that differ from the source. A series of bronzes presented not on plinths but directly on the gallery’s concrete floor, dispersed.

 



City of Tomorrow. Natalie Guy & Gavin Hipkins
June - October 2022
Tauranga Art Gallery





Auckland-based photography and moving image-artist Gavin Hipkins and sculptor Natalie Guy, who each contend with the early aspirations of modern architecture. Borrowing the title Le Corbusier’s early writings on repetition and order, together they unpack the famed architect’s zealous ideals for the makeup of the future city by contending with traces of his legacy.— Stephen Cleland












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Blue Fleur. Natalie Guy & Sandra Bushby
April 28 - May 26, 2023
Olga