words walking words walking: mary-louise browne, elliot collins, roger mortimer, aimee-rose stephenson 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		Words Walking   1-6 of 24 images Next Words Walking explores the ongoing interest in language amongst New Zealand artists. From McCahon to Billy Apple and John Reynolds, words have loomed large on the landscape of New Zealand art - as Auckland art historian Francis Pound once wrote "Words come everywhere, before art, with art, in art and about art". In this exhibition four artists create works, using their own and found words, focusing attention on the visual image as a 'text' to be read. Mary-Louise Browne works with elegant wit in a wide variety of media, from canvas to granite to neon, in both the public and gallery arenas. Last year, in addition to gallery shows, she produced a major public art work for St Patrick's Square in Auckland. Words have been a constant feature of her work and she continues to explore their visual representation both conceptually and materially. She is currently on an artist's residency in Taiwan. Elliot Collins is a poetic painter who operates in what he describes as a "world of free associations", employing words to "visualise the stuff of thoughts" and explore the process of making meaning. He completed his Master of Arts and Design in 2007 and has exhibited steadily since then -in 2009 he had a popular solo show and was included in the exhibition of emerging painters at Christchurch Art Gallery. Roger Mortimer is a painter who has frequently employed text as an element in his painting and in his personal lexicon of signs - his sources frequently derived from medieval texts and illuminated manuscripts point to the ancient association of word and image. Aimee-Rose Stephenson employs hand-stitched pithy texts to playfully explore the use of hair in art - her use of synthetic hair references traditional Maori beliefs about the tapu nature of the head and hair. Aimee-Rose has a Master of Maori Visual Arts.