Jhana Millers introduces its first exhibition of limited-edition prints, presenting a variety of styles including lithographs, monoprints, screenprints, and digital reproductions. The showcase features work by most of the gallery artists, complemented by an essay from Lachlan Taylor offering context to the collection.
Working with multiples
'Some of the artists in this exhibition are well-versed in working with multiples, for others, this is their first time experimenting with seriality. Many showcase the unique capacity offered by reproductions to translate images across media, changing their surface and form.'
Experience
'The actual experience of enjoying a multiple is something different. In a gallery, in a home, spending time with a print doesn't initially or immediately trigger the abstraction of its multiplicity for me. They are multiple, but not infinite. Prints belong to a small group, made in a shared moment, bearing the traces of their reproductive medium across serial surfaces. Prints are a family, and when they leave the studio and spread across geographies, they remain a family—each indelibly connected to the moment of their making. They contest the autonomy of the art object while also expanding it.'
Jhana Millers Art Gallery was established in 2018 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington to showcase compelling and innovative contemporary art and promote emerging local talents. Housed in the listed Mibar Building, fitted with large windows and a concrete ceiling, the gallery provides space for solo and curated group exhibitions.
