RECREATION
Paula Collier
August 22 - September 8, 2001
Auckland artist Paula Collier works directly with sites, often
utilizing derelict commercial or public spaces, letting connections
between the materials and the site drive the context and content
of the final piece. Building up layers from sheets of commercial
glass, Paula leaves the material in its raw state, playing off the
imperfections of the industrial substance against the highly asetheticized,
and beautifully rendered placement of the work.
For The Physics Room Paula has extended the swinging wall which partially divides
two gallery spaces, building a glass and wax extension which is
defined by, and reliant on, the architectural structure of the gallery
space. The new wall appears solid, yet temporary, redirecting for
the duration of the show the flow of the audience through the gallery
space.
Appearing as though balanced only by the weight of the material,
and compressed between two walls, Recreation is both beautiful and
terrifying in its dance with gravity.
Reviews & Essays Fresh - A series profiling
Contemporary New Zealand Practitioners
Essay by Lee Devenish
in The Physics Room Annual
2001
ISBN 0-9582359-1-0
Strutting their stuff
The Press, 2001 Aug. 29, p. 34
Peers, Robyn.
Recreation by Paula Collier; Risky Business by Dane Mitchell; A
Good Tradition Well Maintained by Marcus Moore.
Young & Contemporary
The Package, September, 2001
Lee Devinish
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