making-do(ing) | on enjoying our gardens and other wild places, 2015
Human and non-human animals, various materials gleaned from Waiheke
Constantly shifting dimensions
Visitors are invited to spend time with artists on site and make something to take home or leave behind; artists are available to facilitate similar work.
“Sculpture as making and a starting point and platform for convivial creation and enjoyment.”
– Allan Smith
“Craft as shared or collaborative practice, the ability to invent, adapt, and improvise with limited means, and as humanly-scaled, environmentally attuned technology.”
– Allan Smith
We will be present for the duration of the exhibition continually constructing a playful and frugal environment that makes use of resources already on Waiheke. It will include donated and gleaned materials like beach rubbish, garden weeds like bamboo, scraps from other artists’ works; and local sources such as the Ostend Transfer Station and the New Hope Op Shop.
This work takes inspiration from the book titled Notes from a Non-Gardener’s Diary: (On Enjoying Our Gardens and Other Wild Places) by Waiheke legends Lyndsay Meager and Don Chapple, 2003.Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen
