Pauline Rhodes
Recycled macrocarpa, driftwood and flotsam from local
coastline
A symbolic vessel perches high above the sea, looking outwards
to distant islands and beyond. The brightly-coloured bands of the
skeletal timber form of the boat contrast with its contents of
driftwood and flotsam gathered from the Waiheke coast.
Plunder Boat follows King Tides Rising (The
Physics Room, 2008) in which a boat frame on a pile of debris
represents those places in the world that are threatened by the
rising high tide levels caused by climate change, and the
plundering of natural resources.
Christchurch artist Pauline Rhodes works in the environments of
the West Coast, the Southern Alps and Otago but mainly on Banks
Peninsulas. Since graduating from the Canterbury School of Fine
Arts she has been involved in transient projects which respond to
particular places and situations, natural forms and phenomena.
Over a long period of time, in the outdoor Extensums
series, she has introduced materials which are recorded as photo
works and then completely removed, leaving no physical trace of
their presence in the landscape.
Her installations in galleries also involve ideas of time and
movement and respond to given enclosed spaces using various
recycled entities from accumulated forms and materials.
Selected recent work includes Two Tangles Touching
(2006) and Three Boats Flowing (2007), Brick Bay sculpture
trail; TreeBody (2007), Sculpture on the Gulf;
King Tides Rising (2008), The Physics Room, Christchurch;
New Twists (2008), Bowen Galleries, Wellington.