Paintings 2016
by jacktrolove
Medicinal Skins, Whitespace Gallery Auckland NZ, May 03-28 2016
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The body remembers, Whitespace Gallery, Auckland NZ
by jacktrolove
These paintings are a story of physicality or of finding. Using the body’s scaffolding as a starting point to push into abstraction, to break the space between body and world, or skin and atmosphere, to undo the myth that things are separate. I’m interested in how our bodies, like land, hold memories, how land, like skin across bones, holds onto the unfinished conversations of our ancestors, and how that shapes the images we make and how we see. Many thanks to […]
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still breathing, Greenaway Gallery Adelaide 2014
by jacktrolove
Still Breathing, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide Australia August 30-September 30th 2014 These paintings are a way of holding vigil. When I’m not painting, I work in the suicide prevention field. This body of work gathers together emotional residue and thinking from that space. Visually the work seeded from traditions around death masks. Taken into paint, I wanted these faces to hold that liminal space between the living and dead, that state distinguishable only through a fine thread of breath. As it […]
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Thoughts from an unsettled settler, toi poneke gallery
by jacktrolove
click here to read the catalogue from this show ghostpaper PDF To see images of the show installed, and the work, scroll down past this link.
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whitemess hui 2010 national gathering
by jacktrolove
To see a PDF from this weekend, with information about the concept, the artists, speakers and presentations, click this link: hui booklet Madeline’s reflections: On the weekend of the 15 and 16 May, Jack Trolove and I hosted a weekend of presentations and conversations for artists, poets, theatre makers, performance artists, dancers, singers, activists and academics who are using their various disciplines and mediums to examine Pakeha relationships to historic and current colonisation, in particular exploring ideas from the slippery fields […]
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working drawings (collaborative) for the Unsettled Settler
by jacktrolove
As part of the development of the Whiteness Whitemess Project (see post by this name), I collaborated with two incredible artists Madeline MacNamara (performer and theatre maker) and Claire Lissaman (dancer). We are all interested in critical whiteness studies and making work that responds to our positionally as pakeha (colonial decendants) in Aotearoa. Working collaboratively (during our initial thinking stages) enabled us to visually get our heads around some of the issues and dynamics we wanted to explore while working on this project. I’m […]
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The Ruin / a Historic Choking : stills from site responsive installation, at Rothesay Castle (scotland)
by jacktrolove
The Ruin was a site responsive video installation, which was shown in the Rothesay Castle on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. The black and white image below is an old aerial shot of the castle (light patches indicate location of the video projections). This work approached the monumental, circular ruin as a body, as a container of memory, and looked to its materiality for a way into the political narratives embedded in the stones, water and dirt. The public […]
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Co(a)ld Prayer : stills from site specific video installation – Rothesay Castle, Scotland
by jacktrolove
Coal(d) Prayer was a site responsive video installation, shown in the small open-air ruin of a chapel within the Rothesay Castle on the Isle of Bute in Scotland.The work was developed during a four-month Scottish Arts Council residency on the island, and was an investigation into ruptures in empirical / historic narratives around bodies and power. Scroll to the bottom of these images for more detail The work was a way of using the moat surrounding the castle as a […]
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white body archive
by jacktrolove
This photographic work responds to my experience on the evening I arrived in Scotland. They emerged out of working with coal stained bodies. I felt the images articulated aspects of the racist imaginary that were being nurtured in the media at the time, specifically fear of the black male body (in relation to media representation around the Glasgow airport bombing: link (trigger warning) here). This dynamic first surfaced in a video drawing ‘Coal Throat’ (small stills are shown above) where […]
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