-
Fantastic Planet: Jae Hoon Lee & Amanda Newall
ESSAY by TESSA LAIRD, 2005
Jae Hoon Lee has been exhibiting digital artworks of ever-evolving complexity for a couple of years now. He specialises in scanning textures, from human skin to plant life to gravel and concrete. Also treating the digital medium with satisfying complexity was Amanda Newall’s Sic Games at the Film Archive. -
Stalling Time, Wasting Space: Michelle Menzies
ESSAY by LISA CROWLEY, 2004
for MICHELLE MENZIES ‘Passings’ exhibition, NZFA Auckland.
Michelle Menzies’ installation Passings, presents us with images taken of various spaces around Auckland. There are two photos, one of an empty carpark, which looks out over the city port, the other a disused quarry in St Johns. A third work, House Study is a video projection of an old, large villa from an inner city Auckland suburb.