The Rocky Project
The Rocky Project, as pop art, aims to celebrate the ordinary and to draw our attention to the over looked in our pop culture.
As popular culture becomes ever more present there is a growing belief that meaning and thoughtfulness are being lost in the excess of images available to us. Alternatively, we could choose to embrace this excess and find more meaning and more opportunities for reflection in more places than ever before.
Using aspects of pop art and the graphic novel, the Rocky Project selects key moments from the Rocky films (1976 – 2006) in an attempt to highlight some of the themes explored in these, generally considered to be forgettable, films.
Death and mortality, romantic and platonic love, the rise and fall of champions, social inequality, these are all explored throughout the series.
Popular culture, when we pause to look properly, can offer us insights and experiences we might have otherwise missed.
The Rocky Project
Paintings by Liam Halpin
02 - 30 July 2011
Opening night Friday 01 July 2011 from 6pm
at Auteur House
555 Victoria Street
Hamilton
open daily 10 - 10
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liam halpinLiam Halpin studied at Cleveland College of Art and Design and Cumbria College of Art, both in England, before moving to New Zealand.
He has taken part in the following exhibitions:
The Intraspace Project - 2012. Waikato Museum, Hamilton.
The Sketchbook Project - 2012. Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn. New York
Shared Space – 2011. Draw Inc, Hamilton
The Rocky Project – 2011. Solo exhibition. Auteur House,
Hamilton.Adopt a box – 2011. Painted traffic signal box, Victoria st, Hamilton
One Size Fits All – 2010. Thornton Gallery, Hamilton.
Wiki Art – 2010. 557 Victoria Street, Hamilton.
The Spicy Catfish – 2010. Solo exhibition. Dora’s cafe, Hamilton.
Arts Waikato – 2010. Work on display in Hamilton East offices.
Getting Paint on the Dog – 2009. Solo exhibition. Cafe 547 Art Space, Hamilton.
One Size Fits All – 2009. Thornton Gallery, Hamilton.
Colony of Artists – 2009. Hive Gallery, Raglan.
Coasting – 2008. Arts Post, Hamilton.
Splash of Colour – 2008. ASB Events Centre, Te Awamutu.
