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A solo window show about the difficult choices we need to make. Both are good but choosing one means forfeiting the other, at least for a time. You’re either the wind or the grass, you can’t be both.

A commissioned work for Auckland ARTWEEK 2024 as part of the Changing Lanes projects. This work will be on display for 10 weeks in Durham Lane East.

Below is the poem that I wrote with the words overhead.

Group Show with

Manu Bennet (Te Atihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngā Rauru) (Levin), John Burton (Whanganui), Mel Fleet (Whanganui), Roger Morris (Oeo), Marianne Muggeridge (Oeo), Jodi Naik (Ngati Maniopoto) (Ngāmotu), Riihari Warnock (Ngāti Manu me Ngapuhi), Wayne Wilson Wong (Opunake). Elliot Collins (Waitara), Mark Alister Raymer (Ōkato)

This is the last show we’ll have in the current space.

Gallery Website

Presented by Arts Whakatāne and exhibition partner Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre, this annual non-acquisitive award is dedicated to excellence across contemporary Painting and Drawing. The award has developed over 35 years and sits credibly within the New Zealand arts community.

A high standard of work is selected to form the exhibition from nationwide entries by three independent pre-selection judges, then a guest judge is charged with awarding the winning works, announced at the award ceremony held every February.

For participants, the MMCA offers professional development opportunities to artists by showcasing their practice to peers, collectors, critics, museum curators, the media and the community at large.

List of Finalists:

George Agius, Feilding  - Pillow Talk

Megan Archer, Auckland  - Fantasy Flesh

Simon Attwooll, Wellington  - The things we choose to wear

Debbie Barber & Jules Turner, Auckland  - Still Lives

Macarena Bernal, Auckland  - Molotov Cocktail

Constanza Briceno, Papamoa  - Artifacts: my dad's inventions

Elijah Broughton, Wellington - Seed

David Brown, Wellington - AR 2023-174/1xHen

Kara Burrowes, Christchurch - Peripheral Haze

Oliver Cain, Auckland - Fruit Bowl Noir

Elliot Collins, Taranaki - One Million, Two Hundred Forty-four Thousand and Three Hundred Acres

Elliot Collins, Taranaki - Did you get the watercress I left you?

Jimi Colzato, Tauranga - Untitled 001

Linda Cook, Dunedin - Bodements of Becoming

Marion Courtillé, Napier  - I love your guts III

Bridgit Day, Whangarei - Green on Green

Jennie De Groot, Hamilton - OK, Boomer

Jennie De Groot, Hamilton - Cold Comfort

Akiko Diegel, Auckland - The victory of little broken wings

Donna Dinsdale, Te Puke - 1838

Leslie Falls, Havelock North - "For what it's worth" Postcard advice

James R Ford, Wellington - Finitude (BSCL2)

Wesley John Fourie, Port Chalmers - Ray of Light (Genesis)

Hemaima Gardner, Whakatāne - Whānau of Light

Sandy Gaskell, Whitianga - Mō Te Aroha Ki Te Whenua

Wanda Gillespie, Auckland - Counting Frames for a Transient Era

Tony Guo, Auckland - Stale

Natalie Holland, Wellington - In the shadow of the maunga a kātene starts to bloom

Paige Jansen, Lyttelton - Lattice Breath

Madison Kelly, Dunedin - Tautiaki Splash

Claudia Kogachi, Auckland - Beluga whales swimming in the air

Skye Lu, Auckland - Stranded #1

Rose Meyer, Auckland - hone/space

Jane Molloy-Wolt, Kerikeri - It was a sad day when I left Loppersum.

Jane Molloy-Wolt, Kerikeri - My Father's Journey

Cam Munro, Ōtaki  - Labyrinth

Lisa Passmore, Waihi - Cliabh

Ming Ranginui, Wellington - Till the clock strikes 5

Claudia Recorean, Westport - Canary Theory

Clark Roworth, Wellington - Skew

Moniek Schrijer, Wellington - Michelangelo

Taarn Scott, Auckland - At the Altar (shrine series), 2023

Karen Sewell, Auckland - Stardust (from my back yard), 2023

Liz Sharek, Auckland - Reef

Louann Siddon, Christchurch - Bibelot

Daphne Simons, Auckland - Meet Venus

Rowan Thomson & Peter Derksen, Auckland - Transmutation (drift)

Adele Tierney, Whakatāne - Te Waharoa - the narrow door

Debbie Tipuna, Tauranga - Adornment

Anna Turnbull, Christchurch - Make-up, Makeup

George Turner, Wellington - Gorse in my Shoe (2023)

Kate van der Drift, Raglan - Esk River I (after Gabrielle)

Charette van Eekelen, Christchurch - Breathing in Spring

Charette van Eekelen, Christchurch - Big Magic

Janna van Hasselt, Christchurch - Condition Report

Ruth Vickers, Tauranga - Dust

Sonja Walker, Nelson - Everything but...the bowl

Tim Wigmore, Ōmata - Tahi

Llyr Williams, Wellington - The Belisha Beacon

TM Wootten, Auckland - All For A Scrap Of Paper #1

Bonnie Wroe, Wellington - Lucy

Georgina Young, Dunedin - Pikipiki

Jonghyun Yun, Whakatāne - A Dollar Fifty

In this invite-only exhibition at Percy Thomson Gallery, Gallery Director Laura Campbell has challenged 30 artists from around Aotearoa to ‘show their true self’; to reveal their point of difference and do so in a safe space.

This exhibition is about identity. Artists decide whether to look inward and examine themselves in a self-portrait or look outward at the way they view the world through their lens. An exhibition sharing stories of youth, multi-culturalism, feminism, LGBTQI+ community, mental health journeys and environmental issues we face.

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Personal. Reflective. Healing.

Yours Truly x

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Sierra Roberts

Gwyn Hughes

MB Stoneman

Hayley Elliot-Kernot

Jodi Naik

Milarky

Portia Roper

MiSun Kim

Rohan Wealleans

Rachael Davies

Morgan Paige

Jana Branca

Mark Raymer

Reyna Henderson

Isaac Petersen

Harry Moores

Elliot Collins

Fern Petrie

Shannon Novak

Dwayne Duthie

Darcy Nicholas

Maryanne Shearman

Tania Niwa

Mary MacGregor-Reid

Jennifer Halli

Mikaela Nyman

Chauncey Flay

Renate Verbrugge

Maria Brockhill

Kirsty McLean

Group Show

Now on

Waikato Arts Society - Small Sculpture Awards Finalist

Co-Curated by Laura Campbell and Justin Jade Morgan.

Bringing together a diverse selection of artworks from The Arts House Trust New Zealand’s largest privately held art collection ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover; it may take you on another journey’ aims to lure the viewer beyond the cover of a book to reveal new pictorial narratives.

Drawing inspiration from the four book based works: Earth Book 2 by Len Castle, Models, Methods and Assumptions by Paul Cullen, In Search for an Invisible Rose by Peter Madden and Art book and sound by Leon Van Den Eijke.

Each of the selected artworks within this exhibition provides a new layer of interpretation and new spaces of discourse through the artistic realm of text, image and form.

Conceptual thought, possible decay of the written word and visual trickery may be at play here, but where will these new opportunities for interpretation and artistic engagement take you?

 “We are proud to present an exhibition from this prestigious private collection at Percy Thomson Gallery, which will then tour to other locations on its way back to Pah Homestead in Auckland.”

 Featuring artworks by the following artists:

 Andrew BLYTHE

Mark BRAUNIAS

Matthew BROWNE

Len CASTLE

Elliot COLLINS

Paul CULLEN

Johl DWYER

James R FORD

Peter GIBSON SMITH

Roy GOOD

Bill HAMMOND

Will HANDLEY

Yolunda HICKMAN

Ralph HOTERE                                                    

Vanessa KONG

Peter MADDEN

Brendan MORAN

Milan MRKUSICH

Shannon NOVAK

Paul RAYNER

John REYNOLDS

Michael SMITHER

Bruce STEWART

Andre TJABERINGS

Philip TRUSTTUM

Leon VAN DEN EIJKEL

Virginia KING

a shared show by Hana Carpenter and Elliot Collins

Land Body Time

This collection of work plays with the physicality of gestural mark making and with capturing and containing the body’s energy, which is an empowering creative act. The gesture moves from the body to the painted surface and lingers for a moment before shifting or being withdrawn.

The slow gestation of poetic moments start from somewhere deep and buried; down in the centre of one’s spine. The physical act of painting is a reminder that the artist will always be present.

Hana’s work references the real-time visualisation of sonography, which gives a glimpse into the body’s active subterrain. The paintings are biopsies, ambiguous organic structures, captured in a suspended state or moment. They hold themselves in a liminal borderland of knowing and unknowing.

Elliot’s work references deep time as well as the obvious yet sporadic way memory works. Flowing inwards or outwards, the river of memory continues. It can meander in the open for collective remembrance or sink into deep caverns of dark, cold, hidden journeys for only the rememberer to recall during those moments of silence.

Painting enables Hana to reclaim power and a sense of self. Fluid paint is employed in a physical and intuitive building and obliteration of form, the entropy, alchemy and agency of mark making. Her gesture is her voice.

Painting gives Elliot a chance to exhale. It stands in for him when he can’t be there to wave the flag of understanding or consideration. Words are employed just under the surface of the paint to recall things we’ve lost or act as reminder, a memorial about a far to specific memory for public good. His words are his voice.

A continuation of work from and on-going kaupapa about place, time, and the language we use to discuss the past in the present.

A Group show in 22 Acts

A group show with WITT Art and Design Department

Mark Raymer

Ged Guy

Philippa Berry-Smith

Elliot Collins

Feat. Virginia Woods Jack, John Pusateri, Elliot Collins, Mo Stewart and Deborah Crowe

A solo show at the Caretakers Cottage, Albert Park - Made in Partnership with Artfull for ArtWeek

Group show

I’m a Finalist!

Group show, Grey Place

Twelve artists who find commonality in the sustenance of making.

Art Cooperative ‘New Beginnings’ exhibition. Group Exhibition.

Finalist

A Very Different World brings to light the changed realities and unprecedented difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic. The artists share their experiences of the past year in works that focus on hope and wellbeing – reflecting the second chance this gruelling time offered to practise reverence for life and to connect as a human family. The newly commissioned works show that the artists are engaging in an altered world, working out new cultural and philosophical standpoints. This kaupapa is their occasion to express love, care and concern for mental and emotional conditions that appear dire yet can be instructive. A Very Different World also contributes to heart-led creativity that links to a whakapapa of continuous art practice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Tonga, Hawai‘i and Canada.

https://tetuhi.art/exhibition/a-very-different-world/

On the Te Tuhi Billboards in Parnell, Elliot Collins presents an ongoing body of work that ruminates on landscape and memory.

Documenting maunga (mountains) across Aotearoa that the artist visited, following in his ancestors’ footsteps, I Remember Mountainscreates lateral connections to the landscape as experienced through our bodies and intergenerational memory. Calling into question the first-person ‘I’ in the work’s title by casting the viewer as a protagonist who constructs their own world through their perspective, the artist posits that places become heritable and moveable.

Collins acknowledges his Pākehā worldview by adopting an image of native mistletoe, pikirangi, a semi-parasitic vine that relies on a host tree for sustenance and birds to disperse its seeds, and whose flowers give the text in the work its colour. In doing so, the artist encourages Pākehā and tauiwi viewers to reflect on their own connections to the land and their responsibility as manuhiri (visitors).