New Landscape

New Landscapes comprises three South island artists.
Robyn Bardas resides in Wanaka. Her Red Tussock Line operates within a horizontal amature; fleeting and forever, moving and still, with multiple ever shifting viewpoints. Robyn investigates the use of horizontal lines in painting and the ways they operate to locate the viewer in place, time and spirit. Made in response to a residency at the Pukerau Red Tussock reserve, the tussock self regenerates amid other native species. An idea of renewing our native flora, fenced and packaged within a colonised New Zealand landscape is central.

Miranda Joseph resides in Wellington. In her painting practice the world around her provides the structure to support an exploration of formal, or picture making concerns. Miranda is concerned with how we look, how we see the world and how this translates to image making. The natural world provides the motif to investigate painterly concerns such as light, space, figure and ground and challenge traditional conceptions of how we see.

Sue Pearce resides in Dunedin and works as a full-time artist dividing her time between Dunedin and Christchurch.In her work at Art School, Sue used an inverted watercolour technique; drawing and flowing white acrylic paint onto a black ground.More recently Sue responds to place incorporating the use of local colour. Through the development of her work, Sue decodes her immersive experience of place, forming a tactile response to New Zealand indigenous plant ecosystems.
Visit Akaroa and take advantage of viewing this excellent exhibition whilst enjoying the beauty Akaroa has to offer.