Opened Thursday 30th July at 6pm.


Accompanied by writing by Eliana Gray, Children of Neck and None consists of three coloured pencil portraits of friends and collaborators of the artist, exploring celtic symbolism, queer futurity and the valorisation of relations.⁣ ⁣

Driven by research into May Day and Beltane fertility rituals, these portraits theatrically frame three contemporary figures as archetypal characters who were known to lead fertility rituals associated with these festivals in the northern hemi- sphere spring. The figures chosen for these portraits are the Hobbyhorse, a hybrid of human and animal, the teaser a prehistoric muddler of gender and the fool, or punch, a bearer of entertainment and truth. Depicted full of joy and camply performative these portraits seek to both tenderly acclaim these friendships and collaborative relations whilst exploring the capacity within queer allegiances to dismantle assumptions about fertility, the familial and the future.⁣ ⁣


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Owen Connors is an artist and writer currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. They studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University and The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, Colorado. Recent exhibitions include DUIRVIAS (w/ Laura Duffy), Blue Oyster, Dunedin, 2020; SISSYMANCY, play_station, Wellington, 2019 and Fool For a World That Will End (w/ Daniel John Corbett Sanders), Mother Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau 2018. ⁣


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