"Scattered" - installed, opened, ready for viewing!

"Scattered"

A group show featuring works by Celia Walker, Elle Anderson and Toni Hartill.

To view earlier posts about this project click here.

Now open for viewing 

until May 30th at

Studio One _ Toi Tu

1 Ponsonby Road,

Auckland.

Opening Hours:

Mon – Thurs   9am – 7pm

Fri                   9am – 5pm

Sat                   9am – 4pm

 

 

 

Parking: There is limited parking behind the building, 

access off Hopetoun Street or plenty of street parking

 in the area, including directly out front. 

Just takes a bit of lucky timing to score a park!

Installation

 Toni Hartill

 Celia Walker

Elle Anderson

The window space

Ready for Opening!

Opening Event

Sales - A Conundrum!

With so many small, random pieces, how on earth can I manage sales??

Well, thanks to some tricky numbering I have managed  a system to keep track.

Two pieces sold to a visiting Nelson artist just prior to the official opening so I had to get myself organized pronto! Some other pieces sold during the opening event which was very heartwarming and several more pieces went to new homes when the show was de-installed. So many lovely comments on the show in general, and on everyone's work. 

Thanks to everyone who made it along! 

It felt like quite a celebration of our project which was the brain-child of Celia, and which grew into a really enjoyable experience from initial concept right through to installation. 

"Scattered"

Separated geographically, but connected through ideas, Scattered brings together artists 

Celia Walker, Elle Anderson and Toni Hartill with an expansive scattering of work 

that responds to ideas around shifting horizons, uncertain pathways and traveled landscapes. Individual works act as field notes, working drawings, partial renderings and snapshots, 

but operate together to form a group response to remembered places.

Studio One _ Toi Tu

1 Ponsonby Road,

Auckland.

Opened Wednesday May 1st. 

 View until 30th May, 2019

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Thanks for visiting!

Final countdown to "Scattered" group show!

 

 Just ONE week to go til our group exhibition "Scattered" opens 

and I'm doing my last bit of faffing around planning my layout. To read earlier posts about preparations for this exhibition click here.

 All of my pieces are currently spread out across a surface the size of the wall space where I will be hanging them and each time I go past I seem to move a piece here, tweak a bit there, add in one more piece, take one away...  There are so many possible alternate combinations for laying out the work that this stage could actually go on forever - but, no, I'm very close to calling it a wrap and beginning to pack it all up ready for installation day on Monday... I think...

Celia's initial idea behind this exhibition was to provide an opportunity for the three of us to have something to work towards, together but also separately. Together in spirit, initial inspiration and mutual support but separate in that we each have our own ways of working and our own interests and ideas.

 

The title Scattered came about because we are now scattered geographically since Elle has moved away from Auckland - a good 5 hours drive away. We also wanted the show to include works that are scattered in format - not finished pieces of work but works in progress, encouraging us to be more experimental and exploratory in our approaches. Usually we would aim to produce refined and completed works for an exhibition, ready to present and sell to an audience. There are often works which show potential but aren't quite resolved, works that raise possibilities for new directions but that don't make the final cut to fit in with other works in a show or for a myriad of other reasons. In my experience, I have drawers full of partially resolved works that could lead somewhere else but which I never quite get back to.

Speaking for myself, my bit of wall space will be scattered with an array of my experiments and explorations into mark-making, materials and subject matter inspired initially by the shared quote, our starting point. I've used a wide range of printmaking techniques, but have also toyed with some stitching, collage, paper-cutting, paper folding, drawing and paint - some are more serious investigations, many are completely playful such as my mini-dioramas.

My resulting scattering will be a lot like my studio wall/ table/ floor when I'm developing new work, testing new ideas, trialing new techniques. There are lots of little combinations which could be considered resolved and which could be framed or just hung as they are in wee collections. There are other components which could easily lead off on new tangents to inspire new work...in fact, for those who have seen some of my other projects of late you will see familiar snippets - either ideas have been sown here and have morphed into projects of their own or other projects have inspired ideas for this project. Either way works for me and helps me avoid the dreaded "artist's block".

Celia and Elle have both approached the exhibition from their own viewpoints, also creating a scattering of works but with entirely different approaches to mine and to each other.  Makes for a really intriguing show which we hope our visitors will enjoy!

Image: Celia Walker, 2019

"Scattered"

Separated geographically, but connected through ideas, Scattered brings together artists Celia Walker, Elle Anderson and Toni Hartill with an expansive scattering of work that responds to ideas around shifting horizons, uncertain pathways and traveled landscapes. Individual works act as field notes, working drawings, partial renderings and snapshots, but operate together to form a group response to remembered places.

Studio One _ Toi Tu

1 Ponsonby Road,

Auckland.

Opens Wednesday May 1st, 5pm. 

Please join us!

 View 2nd - 30th May, 2019.

Thanks for visiting!

"Scattered" - a group show of works in progress

Image credit: Celia Walker.

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We are counting down to the installation of our group show

"Scattered"

Separated geographically, but connected through ideas, Scattered brings together artists Elle Anderson, Celia Walker and Toni Hartill with an expansive scattering of work that responds to ideas around shifting horizons, uncertain pathways and traveled landscapes. Individual works act as field notes, working drawings, partial renderings and snapshots, but operate together to form a group response to remembered places.

Celia Walker, Elle Anderson and Toni Hartill.

Studio One _ Toi Tu

1 Ponsonby Road,

Auckland.

Opens Wednesday May 1st, 5pm.

Please join us!

My installation of multiple small works will provide a glimpse into my works-in-progress, sharing my “scattered” thought processes and playful ways of working through mark-making and experimentation. I have used a myriad of printmaking techniques on a range of surfaces from quality printmaking papers to vintage found papers (eg.pages from my grandfather's notebooks dating back to the 1950s.)

Although we began with the same starting point, a literary quote evoking landscape themes, we have each ventured forth on our own tangents to create our three, constantly evolving, and distinctly different, bodies of work.

Below are a few more pics of my works in progress.

 

 For more pics visit my earlier post here.

Follow me on Instagram
for a more regular insight into my progress:

@tonihartillart

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Thanks for visiting!

AND  

we hope you can join us 

at the opening!