The dynamic between Pīpīwharauroa/Shining Bronze Cuckoo and Riroriro/Grey Warbler can be seen as a poignant metaphor for the histories that shape the places we inhabit.

 

Taking its name from this precarious relationship, HOST draws on Jaeger and Williamson’s shared love of assemblage and abstracted anatomy to investigate the mutability of their own stories of place.

 

United by a passion for drawing and a desire to press at it's boundaries HOST sees Jaeger and Williamson abstract and reassemble fragments from their respective environments to construct disquieting meditations on the ways we relate to the structures which sustains us; the land, architecture, object, body and story.

 

From works on paper to sculpture, Jaeger and Williamson use drawing as a means of excavating memory and building connection. Through travelling, collecting, recounting and assembling the artists embrace conventional and expanded-field disciplines of drawing to articulate the mental maps and stories we build as we navigate this complex environment.​

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This exhibition opens on Saturday September 5th at 4pm. All welcome.