Exhibition

Jacqui Colley In Situ

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21 January – 14 February 2016 TOI Gallery, Pātaka Art+ Museum

Jacqui Colley’s In Situ consists of paintings, etchings and work on ply. This body of work deals to central themes on the subjectivity of existence and the abstract experience of place.

The eastern coastal headlands of Wellington, Pencarrow, are a site that Colley feels a deep connection with, and she initially set out to explore sounds that are unique to a specific location, making recordings with the idea that they might challenge a traditional interpretation of the landscape and ideas of place. The physical geography of Pencarrow generated the unique experience of being caught between the sea and the land. Colley describes these as ‘meeting points’ or cruxes; a place of collision, a place of abstraction.

Unlike previous exhibitions, In Situ includes ideas created on location and in response to sound recordings taken on site. These are amplified in black and white as etchings and form a catalyst for the paintings.

Text credit: Georgie Johnson