Upshift. (2016). The Suter Trust. Retrieved April 22, 2019, from The Suter Art Gallery website: http://thesuter.org.nz/the-suter-trust
Helen Telford writes the foreword stating that the Goodman-Suter project was to deliver Nelson audiences an aspect of contemporary art practice that is seen by the guest curator to be emerging in New Zealand. For "Recovered Memory" curator Lara Srongman has selected nine New Zealand artists (ranging from emerging to mid-career) whose works are concerned with the uneasy persistence of memory and constructs of personal identity. notably she mentions the The Suter Art Gallery cannot afford a full-time curator so they contract professionals to complete the task.
Lara Strongman writes an abstract that acknowledge's the artists themselves and outlines the "Recovered Memory" project. I liked the opening paragraph "Although it's birth is characterised by a terrible flurry of activity, as lists of dozens of "to do" items are drawn up as bulwarks against a creeping tide of forgetfulness, a project such as 'Recovered Memory' is a long time in the gestation. I would like to thank the many individuals who have provided practical support and contributed stimulating ideas over this time: Ivan Anthony, Helen Calder, Dan du Bern, Judy Gifford, Michael Lett, Hamish McKay, Anna Miles, Ryan Moore, Gwyneth Porter (whose illuminating essay on Ann Shelton's work in Contemporary New Zealand Photographers initially sparked the idea for "Recovered Memory" )."(Strongman, 2006)
I like that this lists the original information that sparked the idea and the people that helped work up the idea.
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| Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, Scrapbooks from: Weather 1956 April – May to Young Farmers 1969 April – October. C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006. |
“There is a sense in which things become real through their repetition. a library to scale records a likeness of a collection of scrapbooks, a visual re-enactment of a compelling collection of books; it engages us in a process of recovery, retrieval, and re-presentation. It seeks to bind Frederick B. Butler’s project anew, to look back on it from the very particular time and space of the now…”
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| Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth |
From the artist’s statement for the exhibition a library to scale
Acknowledgements: Ann Shelton would specially like thank Puke Ariki and Sereena and Frances Burton for helping make this exhibition possible.
I really like that this is a digital reproduction of a library, the books can be interacted with only via a tablet. |
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