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CALENDAR 2 - 20 MARCH 2011

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Visual Arts Guide and Auckland City

Look, Here

Finn Ferrier, NZ

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Auckland born artist Finn Ferrier has long been exploring his city with the eyes of a collector, picking up rocks and tracing their genealogy. Drawn from the environment of Auckland itself, this basic material has been quarried, crushed, cut and redistributed to build and re-build the urban landscape. This physical transformation both shapes and reflects human modes of engagement with the land.

Through image and text, in the attached pages Ferrier offers us a walk, a stroll through parts of the central city which, in turn, becomes a stroll through moments of the wider city's history. Stone fragments and observations collected along the route are offered as souvenirs, or perhaps evidence, encouraging us to experience the city as a landscape strewn with clues to its past.

The phrase 'written in stone' usually describes something fixed - inflexible and unchanging. Ferrier's ongoing and obsessive interest in this material highlights the city as a landscape in continual flux, constantly changing to accommodate its inhabitants. His interest in details of street design and landscaping draws attention to often overlooked elements that inform our daily engagement with the cityscape and often embody deep emotional connections. Hovering between the factual and the romantic, Ferrier's observations highlight the blurred line between the landscape as a source of stories and a vehicle for our own.

Download the image and text for Ferrier's work, Look, Here.

Artist walk: Join Finn Ferrier for a city walk, 2pm, Sun 20 March. Meet at Emily Place Reserve.

IMAGE: Courtesy of the Artist

Commissioned by Auckland Arts Festival.

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