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Oliver Perkins

OLIVER PERKINS

Casting a crisis, Painting a cat, Looking out a window Lett Thomas 27 August–26 September 2020 Karangahape Road
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Michael Lett gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Oliver Perkins. These works, produced in Perkins’ Lyttleton studio during the national COVID-19 lockdown from April–May 2020, continue a suite of processes for the artist that explore and disrupt the parameters of contemporary painting practice.

Perkins takes the constituent elements of painting production as material for aggregation and intervention. Seen and unseen materials like canvas, cardboard, dye, rabbit skin glue, ink, stretcher bars, dowel, and staples are employed as actors in a network of painting practice to be redistributed and realigned, offering new modes of being with and experiencing painted objects.

Perkins’ works share a suggestion that a painting isn’t something that is made or done—an autonomous and inert object that leaves the studio in a state of completion. Rather, they are objects bound (sometimes quite literally) in a continual state of happening. And so the various inserts, implants, ropes and strings that Perkins employs become means to interrupt and emphasise this constant action.

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Oliver Perkins takes the constituent elements of painting production as material for aggregation and intervention. Seen and unseen materials like canvas, cardboard, dye, rabbit skin glue, ink, stretcher bars, dowel, and staples are employed as actors in a network of painting practice to be redistributed and realigned, offering new modes of being with and experiencing painted objects.

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PETER STICHBURY Grand Guignol Lett Thomas 11 June–11 July 2026 Karangahape Road
About the Gallery

Lett Thomas is a contemporary art gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The gallery represents international and locally based artists at the forefront of contemporary practice, and presents a programme of exhibitions focused on innovative practices from the present day and preceding decades. In addition, the gallery regularly produces art publications, ranging from artist books to collected writings.

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312 Karangahape Road
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand
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Auckland 312 Karangahape Road, Newton
Lett Thomas contemporary art gallery in Karangahape Road Auckland New Zealand
Lett Thomas
312 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 309 7848
https://lett-thomas.com/

Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday
11am – 5pm

Saturday
11am – 3pm
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