Pippa Sanderson

Utopia or Oblivion

ARTIST'S TALK:
1pm Saturday 3 May 2008

Pippa Sanderson joins us from Wellington for tea, a talk and a chance to make some models for Utopia or Oblivion

The past sure is tense...
-- Captain Beefheart

the activity of blowing bubbles to make drawings, the necessary acceptance of failure and change, of accidents and uncontrollable elements, evoke the optimism and fragility of alternative, utopian thought. The traces of the burst-bubble drawing process resemble explosions on the one hand, and serene marbled water surfaces on the other. The drawings are a record of flow, or a trace of breath, or nodules of intensities, infused with the restless spirit of assemblages and utopian visions.
-- Pippa Sanderson