If you are heading up to Matakana any time soon, make sure you stop in at Brick Bay Sculpture Trail and check out the second work in the series Oh how the intangible have fallen. Constructed out of weatherproof steel just before Christmas 2011. It is weathering into its surrounds nicely.
As 2011 draws to a close, I wish everyone the best for the holiday season and for those around Auckland, NZ, I hope to see you at SPLORE 2012, I will be there with a brand new installation for the festival entitled, All hands to the ropes. It is an interactive installation, with a little danger too.
Saturday 26th November was a LONG day, but starting at 8am Aaron began laying down the footprints of 670 pairs of men's feet. Throughout the day many visitors came up and introduced themselves and chatted about the work, with several prostate cancer survivors keen to show their appreciation for the work and share their stories.
The ability of artwork to move people, not only emotionally, but motivate them to do something about their immediate situation and environment is what drives me to continue to create art. I hope that those that saw the work in progress gave pause to their position in life and to take their health into their own hands and keep on top of it.
Art needs you! - more specifically your shoes - even more specific serviceable men's shoes. Come down and say hi from 8am to 8pm Saturday 26th Movember at QEII Square in Auckland, New Zealand and join the installation. All shoes collected will be donated to North Shore Hospice.
Head on out to Kings College, Otahuhu 4-6th November 2011 for a massive art sale in support of King's College. There are works from top New Zealand artists and you can see the first in a new series of works entitled Oh how the intangible have fallen. Open Saturday and Sunday from 10am - 4pm with cafe on site and best of all it is FREE to take a look.
Thanks Queenie will be travelling as part of the 2011 Wallace Art Awards . First stop is the Pah Homestead in Hillsborough, Auckland from 6th September to 14th October and The Dowse in Lower Hutt, Wellington from 29th October to 4th December. If you are nearby I highly suggest heading along to the exhibition there is an incredible amount of great New Zealand contemporary art (and mine!).
Come along to the Waikato Museum to see Locate.AaronMcConchie and 41 other works by New Zealand's leading contemporary artists. The Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Awards is open from 6th August to 6th November 2011 and is cram packed with stunning artwork. Check out the Museum site HERE or more information on Locate.AaronMcConchie HERE
Taking space is a group sculpture show with work from Scott Eady, Andrea du Chatenier, Ryuzo Nishida and Aaron McConchie. Open from 5th - 23rd July 2011 at Seed Gallery , Taking Space is the ideal show for a new body of work Family Bulk Pack , consisting of 5 artworks based around lead cast candy.
From 9th June to 19 July 2011 Dinner for Two will be on display at ArtsPost , Hamilton as part of the Fieldays National Art Awards, The work includes No8 wire, 4 channels of audio and 2 channels of video, along with found and constructed items, to create a revealing look into domestic miscommunication.
Saturday 26th February 2011 was a big day, starting at 8am and finishing at 8pm, I installed The World Around as part of the Auckland Fringe 2011. What took 12 hours to create took approx 20 seconds to 'disassemble'. Click on the banner below to go see the video and follow the links for more information and still images.
1920+2010 is a new edition of sculptures that look at how progress is systematically eliminating the small objects that we often take for granted. CLICK HERE for more details on this work. Orders are being taken for this very limited edition right now.
Flipper 1 was included in Sculpture Onshore 2010, a survey of contemporary outdoor sculpture in New Zealand. Flipper 1 is a fibreglass and steel work that invites the viewer to interact with it. For more info please click on the image below or browse the galleries on the left.
Small Revolution was featured in Eastern Artscape in Howick, Manukau, NZ. Please click on the image below to learn more.
Please Pehi , and interactive, audio sculpture, is featured in Estuary Artworks 2010 at the Uxbridge Creative Centre. Please click on the images below to find out more about the work.
Fire II featured in Sculpture in the Park from 22 November 2009 - 28 February 2010. Check out the Construction blog HERE and the work itself HERE .
Construction is complete on 'Fire II'. Installation is set for 14-15 November with the Exhibition opening on 22 November. Check out the construction progress HERE .
Installed 18 October 2009 - The continuous work of (a) giant(s). Click on images below for more details.
View the Construction blogs for two large scale artworks to be completed by the end of November 2009
Announced 5th June 2009. The inevitable beginning to an inconsequential end was the Winner at the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Awards 2009 in Hamilton.
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