Art so new it’s still being made…

Art so new it's still being made...
New exhibition Ready to Roll takes shape at City Gallery Wellington

Auckland artist Richard Maloy will go through a small mountain of cardboard over the next week, as his installation for City Gallery Wellington exhibition Ready to Roll takes shape. He will spend seven days creating a new work out of brown cardboard boxes, tape, industrial staples and paint, forming a huge structure that will take over one end of the Gallery.

City Gallery Senior Curator Heather Galbraith is looking forward to the results.
"This sculpture will be built entirely on-site, behind closed doors. During the week of building the artist and his helpers will form the structure organically, using the modest material of cardboard. The artist is invisible in what the viewer finally experiences - a remnant of the process of making, a piece of new cocoon-like architecture."

Maloy is just one of eight New Zealand artists featuring in City Gallery's new exhibition Ready to Roll, which opens on May 29. Concentrating on recent work by contemporary artists based in New Zealand, this exhibition features eight artists from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin; Kushana Bush, Eddie Clemens, Elliot Collins, Matt Hunt, Richard Maloy, Campbell Patterson, Layla Rudneva-Mackay and Zina Swanson.

The exhibition, curated by Heather Galbraith, veers from the micro-incredibly delicate but unsettling gouache and watercolour paintings by Kushana Bush and Zina Swanson-to the gargantuan; a vast cardboard structure by Richard Maloy and a sixteen metre-long wall painting by Elliot Collins. From the dense mythical paintings of Matt Hunt to the bewitching staged portraits of Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Eddie Clemens' disarming use of familiar materials to visceral video works by Campbell Patterson, Ready to Roll shows eight artists with strong individual voices and directions.

Ready to Roll runs from 29 May until 12 September, alongside the major survey exhibition John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals).