Wall Works

To mark the occasion of the Adam Art Gallery’s first ten years, eight artists have been invited to spend ten days working directly on the walls of the gallery.

Their works will provide a context for the Gallery’s 10th birthday party on 19 September 2009.

The gallery doors will open to the public on the first day the artists start work, allowing visitors to see the wall works in process.  The exhibition will provide a fascinating opportunity to see how artists respond to a space and go about realising their work within the tight constraints of a particular timeframe and an actual context.

Adam Art Gallery Director Christina Barton says the ‘wall works’ will amplify the gallery to produce a vibrant, thought-provoking, and at times unexpected experience.

“The exhibition provides an opportunity to celebrate the gallery’s history without dwelling on our past; the temporal projects and their relationship to the site will present instances of the mobility and responsiveness to which the Adam Art Gallery aspires”. 

In keeping with the format of the Wall Works exhibition, students from the New Zealand School of Music have been invited to produce a new sound installation between the two sets of sliding doors at the entrance of the gallery. They will take field recordings and develop their composition while the artists are working. The finished sound work will be on exhibition from 20 September-4 October.

The gallery will officially celebrate its birthday with a party on Saturday 19 September. The evening will be orchestrated by the performance collective of Bek Coogan and Torben Tilly, along with acts by Double Ya D.

On the night the gallery will be filled with specially-commissioned temporary structures designed and built by interior architecture students of Victoria University’s School of Architecture and Design. The student radio station VBC will broadcast the event live to the city of Wellington.

Wall Works
David Cauchi, Michael Harrison, Patrick Lundberg, Julia Morison. Simon Morris, Reuben Paterson, Kim Pieters, Jeena Shin
8 September – 4 October 2009

Adam Art Gallery 10th birthday party
Saturday 19 September 2009
8-11pm

Door charge $5 – all proceeds will go towards supporting the artists involved in the project.