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Honey in the Rock: Joanna LangfordA series of installations by 2011 Frances Hodgkins Fellow, Joanna Langford. Langford is renowned for towering architectural forms and intricate, magical landscapes built from recycled materials such as plastic shopping bags and 'found' bric-a-brac. Her recent sculptures, conceived during her term as Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, employ bamboo skewers, painted polystyrene balls and silage wrap, a material which strongly evokes New Zealand’s rural landscape and economic dependence on farming. Langford’s works often conjure notions of imagined or real journeys and her atmospheric digital video projection 'Baltic Wanderer', shown for the first time in this exhibition, looks like a scene from a snowy fairytale and draws on the artist's visit to the Baltic region. Exhibition runs from 19 March - 30 April 2011 Joanna Langford, At the Waking Hour #1 (detail), 2010, mixed media. Image courtesy of Joanna Langford and Hocken Collections.  Last revised: 11 May, 2011 |