Portfolio

Meet curator and photographer Jo Galvin who recently returned to NZ having done (creative) time in the UK.  Jo shares with MORPH her series Adore and Endure which was produced over the last three years both in Auckland and London.

Using a 1960s medium format Hasselblad, the images are a willing and intimate exchange between subject and photographer.  Jo Galvin’s practice involves an ongoing documentation of her extended social circle using her growing collection of analog cameras.  Adore and Endure looks at the relationship between camera and photographer, photographer and subject, and the photographic pr [ ... ]

Erin Forsyth makes art, organises collaborations and projects to assist others to make art, runs an artist space, is documenting and mapping cultural art makers and basically lives and breathes art.

You can read a full interview with Erin over here, at MORPH's 10 Questions.

For Erin's portfolio see below.

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After many late nights slaving over V-fuelled AUT assignments, Brook Copland stumbled across the rough edges of screen-printing. The messy textures and disjointed lines have since cemented an ongoing passion for hand printed work.

“Both adult themes and child-like imagery cross-pollinate throughout my work to exaggerate the unrelenting exposure of sex in the media, even in children’s programmes and advertising. Complex and mature ideas underlie simple cartoon imagery to highlight how perceptions can merge unnoticed”.

Brook  has a great appreciation of the pop art approach of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein  [ ... ]

Artist & certifiable weirdo Michael Kennedy (aka Malangeo) creates wonderfully weird portraits of cute critters, macabre beasties & zombie turnips.

"I was brought up on the irreverent humour of cartoons and comics like The Farside and Calvin & Hobbes; later the discovery of art magazine “Juxtapoz” introduced me to the low brow & pop-surrealism art movement."

His work is a unique blend of traditional oil painting technique and contemporary pop surreal style and oozes of whimsical charm, dark humour and pop culture references.

Other creative interests of note include illustrating, teaching, live-painting, sc [ ... ]

Kevin Lauv is an Auckland photographer working predominantly on portraiture.  His most recent  body of work, some of which are shown in this portfolio, explore the unspoken words that come into play when seeing a person for the first time, the idea of first impressions.

"Having the power to create something that is fake, true, desirable, and  undesirable is what stood out to me about photography. I have a huge interest in the interaction between photograph and my audience"

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Spencer Harrington, who paints under the alias 'RANDOM', is a young urban artist who has exhibited widely in the short time he has devoted himself to being a fulltime artist. He uses an extensive range of usual and unusual materials in stunningly innovative ways. These works have found their way into collections across New Zealand and now into Europe, America and Japan.

Random pushes himself and the visual expectations of the viewer to the limit. Projects include artistically covering the iconic 'Fish 'n Chip shop at Piha, being commissioned to take complete creative control of the fit-out for Auckland Univ [ ... ]

Fashion designer Celia Phillips rummages about in religion and the occult for divine inspiration. Anything from the more traditional order of Catholicism to secret societies such as The Golden Dawn and the Morman fundamentalist cult Yearning for Zion, upon which her latest collection is based.

“I was inspired by the pastel coloured prairie dresses that they wear and by how this cult was so conservative yet the way they dressed and wore their hair was so unconventional and striking. I was interested in giving my clothes a darker edge and so was looking at a lot of occult imagery and symbolism”.

The entire coll [ ... ]

thisisrabbit generates left-field improvised doodles and is an exercise in the spontaneous illustration of narrative.

“Using automatic writing techniques from the art of improvisation I create simple, absurd, playful works with maybe a twist of morbid curiosity. This results in a combination of doodling, street art posters and screen-printing, all with the desired outcome being to positively disrupt your day”.

Doodle-A-Day is a thisisrabbit project; a collection of doodles, created and shared daily, with the eventual outcome being a set of 365 doodles.

thisisrabbit says “the aim of the project is to see wha [ ... ]

Abby Storey is a contemporary photographic artist based in Melbourne. Her photography examines social and cultural activity.

Abby's recent project 'Touchstones' was exhibited at Auckland's Satellite Gallery and is comprised of images collected over the last five years.

The works in Touchstones reflect on humanity, the things that we value and the consequences of our exaltation in a world of contingencies. They show decontextualised entities; the familiar, the revered, the ubiquitous - touchstones.

The subjects of these photographs are together the object of some form of reverence, altered through the often inele [ ... ]

The End Of London is primarily about my response to the world I see. And for two and a half years it was London. These pictures are a journey through the streets; through gazes and moments, people and nature and the inherent struggle between the two. To put it simply “it’s an attempt to understand the time I live in”.

It’s the insignificant parts of the everyday that appeal to me; the abstract moments, the subtle gestures, the mysteries of the meaningless.

Photography for me is about being engaged in the world around you. It’s become my way of trying to understand by searching for the mystery that see [ ... ]