cloudspotting
Steph Arrowsmith, Ilya Merrifield, Lewis Cosgrave and Jackie Jenkins
23/2/22–19/3/22

Softly glowing and nestled in clouds, glossy and rounded paths and roads and plains. Clouds like floating moss, hanging tendrils. Clouds like the back of a great fish, like a brush through soft hair, castles in air.

Watch clouds and find shapes in them and sleep through the sunshine (avert your eyes from the glaring light).

Here we dredge up depictions of the idyllic and paradisal. Eerie and heavenly packagings of the natural world in endlessly replicated image and material.

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Steph Arrowsmith graduated from Massey University with a BFA in 2021. She uses found and constructed surfaces, playing with light and material to create paintings with holographic presences. Lately her paintings have been lonely symbols of nature's innocence. Too-pure-for-this-world forms perform in murky enclosures that appear as heavenly worlds.

Ilya Merrfield is currently finishing their BFA at Massey University in Pōneke. They engage with material processes and symbology that have the poetic potential to communicate the interwoven concepts of embodiment, abstraction and geometry.

Jackie Jenkins is a gender nonconforming sound
artist and designer, specialising in commissions for
contemporary performance and exhibitions in
Aotearoa and Australia. Their practice explores the
creation of sound with specific focus on
psychoacoustics in exhibition. Jackie predominantly
works with abstracting found audio with generative
Max4Live tools in Ableton. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

Lewis Cosgrave is a multi-disciplinary artist who
focuses on using discarded and found materials, and
the real world associations they carry, to invoke
reverie-like thoughts that may be traced back to
nostalgic ideals of home, sunshine and simpler times.

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Design by Zoe Hannay
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