Guest artist at McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
02.04.2020 - 30.05.2020,
Photographs by Russell Kleyn
The reshuffle after NZ, COVID lockdown
right - Exclamation! 63.5 x 54.5 cm / left - TV Eye Christina Read, 2020 both painted paper on board, 54 x 70 cm
Painted paper on board, 54 x 70 cm
detail (TV eye)
Painted paper on board, 42 x 49 cm
Painted paper on card, 40 x 52 cm
Egg Rock, 64.5 x 50 cm & Escape Plan, 42.5 x 59 cm
both painted paper on card
Painted paper on card, 64.5 x 50 cm
Time Arrow, 42.5 x 59 cm
Painted paper on board, 61.5 x 87 cm (framed)
Painted paper on card, 59 x 84 cm
Painted paper on card, 59 x 84 cm
Painted paper on board, 54 x 66 cm
Painted paper on board, 54 x 66 cm
Painted paper on card, 63.5 x 54.5 cm (framed)
Painted paper on board, 59 x 84 cm
Painted paper on card, 59 x 81 cm
Painted paper on board, 62 x 80 cm
Painted paper on board, 42.5 x 59 cm
Nick Austin and Christina Read, curated by Megan Dunn, with an artist’s book by Megan Dunn and Evangeline Riddiford Graham.
McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. 04.04.2018 - 28.04.2018,
Photographs by Russell Kleyn
Christina Read, Things I did not tell you
Book by Megan Dunn and Evangeline Riddiford Graham, with images by Christina and Nick
Christina Read, Christina the Astonishing
(after Saint Christina)
Christina Read, Scales of a Dragon
Nick Austin, Happy Birthday
Christina Read, Scales of a Dragon
Nick Austin, Happy Birthday
Christina Read, Peanut Worm (repeated)
Christina Read, Puppets
Nick Austin, Happy Birthday
Nick Austin, Happy Birthday
This body of work was created out of the Olivia Spencer Bower Award, a year-long residency in Christchurch, (2016). The exhibition, 1. Here’s a Plan (things to do) (2017) was based on making plans, plans for exhibitions that I had not yet made, inspired by chapter titles from a narrative nonfiction book that I had yet to write. The works were about ideas, plans and optimistic ambitions.
Ilam Campus Gallery, SOFA, University of Canterbury. 2017
The Brain
This was a exhibition of video works curated by myself and presented within a sculptural installation, designed and constructed by artist Paul Cullen. The Brain could be seen as an idiosyncratic spatial and conceptual diagram of a brain, using video to map questions both academic and amateur. Seventeen single-channel video works will explore themes including; landscapes of perception and cognition, tangible thoughts, altered states, phantom limbs, TV brains, dream archives, memory files, and the mind body connection.
The Brain is commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aoteoroa New Zealand in partnership with Te Uru with the assistance of Creative New Zealand.
Artists: Paul Cullen, Megan Dunn, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ronnie Van Hout, Laresa Kosloff, Owen Kydd, Sonya Lacey, Colie Leung, Richard Maloy, Michael Nicholson, Kim Pieters, Rachel Shearer, Daniel Von Sturmer, Rainer Weston and Layne Waerea.
all photos by Sam Hartnett samhartnett.com
Rm Gallery, Auckland, 2012
This was a temporary outdoor installation in which my aim was to configure a group of sculptures which stood out against the Waiheke backdrop. I created six sculptures. Some were blob-like and slightly monstrous in their form, whilst others were gentler forms. All were brightly coloured. I was interested in evoking the idea of a children’s play area gone awry. The title alluded to the possibility that the objects are clues as to ‘how to be happy’, which in itself suggested someone was not entirely satisfied with their lot. I was therefore interested in the duality of this statement.
http://www.sculptureonthegulf.co.nz/
Sporting brought together works by Christina Read, Danielle Foster, Jack Hadley, Joshua Harris-Harding, Lucy Meyle, Kate Russell and Hannah Valentine that address in different ways, those attitudes and artefacts of competition that shape - win or lose - our everyday.
DEMO; 21 Shaddock Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland
Mini version, donated to Enjoy Christmas show 2018
