Zuna Wrigh - New stone House #1

Zuna Wright - Gillies Metaltech

Land of Rock - Rod Eales
1 May - 6 June

The smaller stones and pebbles in this collection are the fragments of larger rock, weathered almost to oblivion. I have chosen to collect them up and preserve their beauty through isolation.

This collection of drawings is also a celebration of drawing as an art form in its own right. I have been drawing since I was four years old, naturally interested in observing the detail of things, with an acute awareness of line, shape, form, pattern and texture. Aesthetically
there is no end to the inspiration to be had from rock.

The drawings are executed with a 0.1 Staedtler drawing pen which
is both permanent and light fast. Ink is very desirable for a large tonal range. Intense blacks to the softest greys can be achieved by building up many layers of small strokes from all directions. The process
of achieving this tonal affect is very slow, but I do love the sensuous
action of the pen moving over the two dimensional rock surfaces in
a similar way that a rasp or spoke shave might move over a three dimensional wooden surface in the action of carving. The ‘action’
of drawing rocks is comparable to the forces of nature, only in reverse. The slow constant weathering or removal of substance by wind and water is contrary to the slow process of adding to or building up ink
on paper to give the illusion of a three dimensional form.

Rock is often overlooked within our landscape, but there is a beauty
in the solidity, humility and tranquillity of these bold and significant features.

Rod Eales - artist's statement

Artists’s statement - Mary Horn

Edward Augustus Gifford (1819 - 1894)
View of Oamaru Harbour (1880)

Colin Wheeler (b.1919)
McDonalds 2000