Opening Event - Annie McIver Solo Show 'Like A Fish Out Of Water'

Name: Opening Event - Annie McIver Solo Show 'Like A Fish Out Of Water'
Start: 2024-11-15T18:00:00+13:00
End: 2024-11-15T19:30:00+13:00
Location: Upstairs Gallery

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+13:00

Location

Upstairs Gallery | Auckland, AU

You are invited to the opening of the solo exhibition ‘Like A Fish Out Of Water’ by West Auckland ceramic artist Annie McIver. Opening Friday 15 November 2024 at 6pm. Everyone is welcome.
“When I make figures, a comment often made, is that my pieces teeter. I don’t set out with that intention, but they do. Somehow they are on the verge of falling or floating or disintegrating. Perhaps they echo my sense of being like a fish out of water - an outsider unable to catch my breath in company. With that in mind, I have placed a fish in a pram on a bed of sticks as a measure of my discomfort. Most of my pieces are about the human condition from the perspective of a melancholic outsider, viewing the Anthropocene and all that that implies.”
The Uses of Sorrow
Someone I once loved, gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to realise that this, too, is a gift.
- Mary Oliver