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Artbay Gallery - Oliver Hill, Copy and Paste
Location: Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade, Queenstown
Region: Queenstown
Dates: Thu, 3 November 2022 - Wed, 23 November 2022
Oliver Hill is a New Zealand artist who has studied at the Dunedin School of Art. Throughout Hill’s life, great interest has been found in modifying different objects, from anything electronic to anything mechanical. He would modify or re-engineer them to the point of being far more unreliable than once before, but far more exciting for him to experience personally.
This is where Hill’s painting has stemmed from. Manipulating the world around him in visual form to where the paintings he creates are an expression of the world as we know it, portrayed in an abstract vibrant form. From Hill’s perspective, this is a means of re-engineering in itself.
Hill has always questioned why he paints, however throughout his time at art school, he has gained a deeper understanding of what this question means although he may never fully understand the answer. Through careful consideration, Hill has come to realise that a primary reason as to why he paints, is to progress self exploration and this question of ‘why’. In a sense, he paints in order to figure out why he paints.
Hill’s series of works “Copy and Paste” work off of the subconscious thought, where childhood memories of certain toys such as the ‘race car play mat’ can be seen in the works. Roadways portraying a city like structure intertwining dislocated buildings gives a glance into how the world may have been portrayed from the eyes of a very new life. Loud vibrant colour, repetitive shape and form, and unusually familiar objects give an almost unsettling feeling of a world once forgotten to your own mind. Now making an appearance as a static painting, forgotten memories arise, forcing the mind to wander into the unknown.
Location
Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade, Queenstown
April 2024
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1 | 2 | 3 | Arts Central - Meet the Author: Ruth ShawThu, 4 April 2024 @ Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start | 5 | Central Otago Regional Orchestra - "Autumn Romance" Alexandra and QueenstownSat, 6 April 2024 - Sun, 7 April 2024 @ April 6th at 7.30pm, April 7th at 2pm. | |
7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - "Bannockburn - A Place to Stand" by Jan and Tim Hawkins.Fri, 1 March 2024 - Thu, 11 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | Entries Open Now - West Otago Art AwardWed, 28 February 2024 - Fri, 12 April 2024 @ Entries Open Now | 13 |
14 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - School Holiday ProgramMon, 15 April 2024 - Sun, 28 April 2024 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Teviot Arts - "A Night in New Orleans" The River City Jazzmen.Fri, 19 April 2024 @ 6.30pm for 7.30pm start | Hullabaloo Art Space - "Memories from the Mantelpiece" by Tracey Morrow and Rebecca McKaySun, 31 March 2024 - Sat, 20 April 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily Central Otago Art Society - "An Acrylic Painting Adventure" with Jenny Chisholm - Contemporary LandscapesSat, 20 April 2024 - Sun, 21 April 2024 @ 9.30am - 3.30pm daily |
Central Otago Art Society - "An Acrylic Painting Adventure" with Jenny Chisholm - Contemporary LandscapesSat, 20 April 2024 - Sun, 21 April 2024 @ 9.30am - 3.30pm daily Central Cinema - "Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story"Sun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 24 April 2024 @ 21st April @ 5pm. 24th April @ 2pm. | Applications are Now Open - Michael King Writers Centre Australian ResidencyWed, 27 March 2024 - Mon, 22 April 2024 @ Applications Open Now | 23 | Central Cinema - "Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story"Sun, 21 April 2024 - Wed, 24 April 2024 @ 21st April @ 5pm. 24th April @ 2pm. | 25 | 26 | 27 |
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