Denise Batchelor - Blue Series

Exhibitions

Orexart Gallery • 30 May - 23 June

Opens
5:00pm on Wednesday 30 May
Hours
11-5 Tues-Fri, 10-4 Saturday
Where
Suite 1, 15 Puriri Street, Takapuna, Auckland 0622
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Artists
Denise Batchelor
Theme

'Blue Series' (still images) and 'Symbiosis' (moving image) explore the Physalia utriculus (or bluebottles as they're commonly known). While seemingly a single animal, they are colonial organisms made up of polyps and medusa that work together as a single organism. Each organism specializes in either buoyancy, propulsion, predation, digestion or reproduction, while functioning separately they are unable to survive alone. Award winning artist Denise Batchelor first showed these works in Berlin in 2017 and this is the first time they have been shown in NZ.

 

Denise Batchelor

 

Denise Batchelor

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