Lucy Matthews | Common Thread

 

This project explores local gift economy in Te Waipapa and draws inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s view of the gift economy, as a continuous loop of giving and receiving resources. This can be observed within our natural environment and community. This could include the transformation of oxygen from carbon dioxide or sunshine to ripen fruit, the offer of a lift from the ferry, or a gift of home grown preserves.

For a year Lucy  tracked experiences of giving and receiving within our local landscape, mapping the texture and quality of those moments onto a series of abstract postcards, paintings and installations. These ‘experience-scapes’ offer a snapshot of reciprocity of our local environment and community. 

This work invites us to celebrate our ‘wealth’, beyond traditional economic structures and sense into and celebrate the richness of interdependence, what we are receiving and giving moment to moment.

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Marie Celeste Lawrence | The Future Was a Feeling

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The Future Was A Feeling transforms Stoddart Cottage into a space of ritual and speculative world-building, inhabited by an imagined spiritual custodian and keeper of subcultural memory, a figure who rebuilds meaning through ritual and repetition. Through symbolic transformation, traces of the past are redirected toward reflection and resistance. 

Both exhibitions open Saturday 4th July, 4pm. All welcome.

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