Limnage - images inspired by limestone
- Zuna Wright
3 April - 6 June
Zuna Wright is a Dunedin artist and has held numerous exhibitions in New Zealand over the last ten years. Zuna paints predominately with gouache on paper. She paints from her North Dunedin studio where she also runs a successful freelance design business.
Zuna was born in South Africa and attended the Johannesburg School of Art in the late 1950’s. Following graduation, the artist worked in
advertising in Johannesburg and Capetown until the 1970’s, when she emigrated to Dunedin.
“It is a unique and fascinating light in Oamaru. The pale, flat sky, the treeless landscape, the sharp edged limestone edifices with their
intense, oddly shaped shadows, and the blue and green hue of the shallow harbour.
The well preserved buildings of the harbour precinct, many still being used in a practical way by bookbinders, bakers and artisans, give the feeling of a living museum. Then there is the incongruously sited Roman Catholic Basilica in Reed Street with its adjoining presbytery
and the inspiring Italiante Basilica in Waimate, which super imposed
on a renaissance sky evokes images of other worlds.
I’ve been visiting for many years. Sometimes for a day in Oamaru, other times going inland to Mt Cook, Mt Dobson or Kurow where the byways are marked by unusual limestone outcrops and riverside embankments.
Limestone in the landscape is the subject matter in some of the works.
I have combined images of naturally occurring limestone outcrops and man-made structures to create a ‘new style’ stone house".
artist’s statement 2010 |