Opening event: 5pm, Wednesday 17 February
Aritst talk: 12pm, Thursday 27 February
About the exhibition:
Do you find that there is a spiritual greatness that operates and gives rise to difference within the material realm of deadlines and being able to be transportable – that All-ness, marvelling at its magnificence, and the reflection of the magnificence…?
About the artist:
Jen Alexandra’s practice combines sculpture, installation, and performance to explore the artists role as querent, and the relationships between human and non-human. She proposes that art can connect with other realms of experience, interpret visions, or serve as a mode of knowledge itself.
Jen lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch and is a doctoral candidate at University of Canterbury and was the Olivia Spencer Bower Awardee for 2024. contributed to the Speaking Surfaces project at St Paul Street Gallery in 2020, and was an Asia New Zealand Arts Practitioner Fund grant recipient in 2023. Recent solo projects include The Veil is Thin, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2021), Sisterly at The Dowse Museum (2023) and Tie One, The Spells Begun The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū (2024).
