contemporary new zealand art
	mary-louise browne reify 13 july - 7 august 2010 contemplating the marvellous: constructed photography andrea gardner, richard orjis, kate woods 11 june - 10 july, 2010 maryrose crook inland seas 11 may - 5 june 2010 tuku iiho tuku iho: four graduates from massey university school of maori visual arts, reweti arapere, erena baker, liz grant and kylie tiuka 8 april - 8 may 2010 words walking words walking: mary-louise browne, elliot collins, roger mortimer, aimee-rose stephenson 2 march - 1 april 2010 ross t smith linger 2 - 27 february 2010 from ritual maryrose crook, john di stefano, peter madden and sanjay theodore 1 - 24 december 2009 anne noble anne noble the colour of gold 3 - 28 november 2009 brett graham searching for tangaroa 6 - 31 october 2009 motel seven painters: liyen chong, tjalling de vries, trenton garratt, eileen leung, oliver perkins, ruth thomas-edmond, stacey turner 8 september - 2 october 2009 marcia lyons emergent submersives 11 august - 5 september 2009 hard tactics robyn irwin and sopolemalama filipe tohi 14 july - 8 august 2009 roger mortimer apocrypha new paintings 16 june - 11 july 2009 rachael rakena he waiata whaiaipo 19 may - 13 june 2009 niki hastings-mcfall in to the light 21 april - 16 may 2009 catholic bodies an exhibition by six 2008 graduates from massey university school of fine arts wellington 24 march - 18 april 2009 andre hemer the bang-bang painting collective new paintings 24 february - 21 march 2009 mary-louise browne please please me 27 january - 21 february 2009 aniwaniwa stills 2008 by brett graham and rachael rakena		Mary-Louise Browne   1-6 of 26 images Next To reify is to turn abstract concepts into real objects and this is exactly what Mary-Louise Browne does in this exhibition. REIFY comprises two related bodies of works - one a series of school mottoes stitched in gold lettering on damask linen and the other, a series of ideas about representation etched on brass plaques. Her ideas grew out of an artist residency at the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan earlier this year. There, working predominantly with Taiwanese greenstone, she explored ideas around commemoration and the memorial and souvenir and these ideas continue to play out in the new exhibition. With her daughter going to school in Taipei, she became interested in the way mottoes and maxims are employed, both aspirationally and inspirationally in east and west. Additionally, Browne says her encounter with Chinese iconography - where signs and symbols often represent ideas - led her to reading and thinking more about how things and ideas are described visually and the brass pieces are reworkings from theoretical texts and articles.