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Jacqueline Elley: Detenebrate

JACQUELINE ELLEY 'HEART LIGHT' 2005 (DETAIL)

New Plymouth artist Jacqueline Elley works with light and muka, an organic, processed flax fibre traditionally produced in Taranaki, to explore the tensions between nature/culture, illumination/ darkness and containment/fluidity.

When: 3 December 2011 – 19 February 2012
Where: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
How much: Free

Detenebrate: to free from darkness or obscurity.

For this site-specific installation, Elley references historical and contemporary Maori and Pakeha approaches to muka, transforming the Open Window gallery space into a lightbox.

Elley graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1999 and was awarded the painting prize that year.

Curated by Meredith Robertshawe

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