FRIENDSFRIENDS OF FRIENDSFRIENDS by Oliver Stewart
This exhibit is a collection of people who the artist has met in dreams. A set of acquaintances from life, melted over time through the haze of memory, dreamt over and melted onto canvas as an attempt to recall all social interactions. Some of them are friends, some of them less desirable.
Come and see if you recognize yourself.
Interrogating the way memory and recording of events can sometimes be at odds with one another Oliver “Vincent Nielsen” Stewart works in an array of media and mediums to communicate abstract recollections of a lifetime of experiences. Living in Kirikiriroa for 16 years, long appreciating the changing nature of the city, he attempts to capture the essence of the people that roam the streets, work in offices, live in the suburbs and make the city the cultural hub that often goes ignored. Primarily working as a painter of neo expressionist art, Vincent commits memory to canvas and obfuscates the clues under layers of ink, spray, oil and acrylic paint.
Please join us at the opening event for FRIENDSFRIENDS OF FRIENDSFRIENDS on Sat 28th Feb, 10am.
The Nancy Caiger Gallery is open 11am-2pm from Wednesday to Saturday. If you’d like to visit this exhibition outside of these opening hours, please email [email protected]