ESSAY by MARY MORRISON, 2005
for BILLY APPLE ‘Severe Tropical Storm 9301 Irma’ at Window Gallery, Auckland
In March 1993, Apple was a passenger aboard the Chiricana, a refrigerated cargo vessel transporting a cargo of high quality squash from New Zealand to Japan.
ESSAY by MARK HARVEY, 2004
for JAE HOON LEE ‘Translucent’ at Window Gallery, Auckland
To be translucent is to operate with transparency, or, to diffuse the pathway of light. What we think we see might be what we see, though, it just as easily might not.
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.