Exhibition
Transitive States
Elizabeth Thomson
18 October 2013 – 9 February 2014
Elizabeth Thomson’s visit to the Kermadecs in 2011 was the catalyst for a new body of work, Transitive States.
Elizabeth Thomson’s visit to the Kermadecs in 2011 was the catalyst for a new body of work, Transitive States.
The Kermadecs are one of the last pristine marine environments on the planet and proved to be a place rich in imaginative potential and inspiration for Thomson.
This body of work explores the conceptual possibilities of a special place – a remote, vast and under-explored environment and its associations with science, history and natural history.
Incredibly seductive but strangely disorienting, these wall-mounted sculptures are an artificial manipulation of the inherent beauty and strangeness of the natural world and form part of Thomson’s ongoing response to her Kermadec experience.
