CLINTON WATKINS

Since 1994 Clinton Watkins has produced artwork that investigates affects that combinations of sonic and visual information can have on an audience. The key conceptual issues of his work are drawn from an interest in constructing immersive experiences through the use of sound, colour and scale of installation incorporating video projection, television monitors and custom-made audio and video hardware. The visual and sound base of his work focuses on the characteristics, structures, phenomena, and processing of sonic and visual material through the exploration of repetition, distortion, colour, duration and form via a minimalist sensibility.

Watkins is also a practicing musician who regularly produces and performs as a solo artist and collaboratively as an active member of the minimal electronic improvisation sextet, Plains and one half of the electronic noise duo 1000. Watkins has numerous releases of recorded material on a variety of local and international record labels such as Circle, 20 City, Claudia, Mystery Sea, CMR, Absurd and Scarcelight. Watkins holds a Doctoral Degree in Fine Arts and lecturers at Elam School of Fine Arts in time-based media. Selection is an exhibition of video and sound work created between 2007-2011.

Recent solo exhibitions include Test Tone Aotea Center, NZ (2011); Force Fields, Two Rooms, NZ (2010); Line & Tone Hirschfeld, Berlin (2009); Avalanche NZ Film Archive (2009); and Cont Ship #1-#3/New New Wave #1-#2 Square 2, Wellington City Art Gallery (2008). His work has also been featured in curated group exhibitions throughout New Zealand, Australia and Europe including Wall of Sound, Te Tuhi (2010); Under, Lopdell House (2010); Super Deluxe Artspace, Sydney (2010); Black Out, I.C.A.N. Sydney (2010); 7:5, Two Rooms, NZ (2009); Past-Present-Place, Heidelberger Kunstverein, DE (2008); Martini Shot, (Artspace 2007); 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Auckland City Art Gallery (2006). Watkins also features Frieze magazine London issue 126 (2009) http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/clinton_watkins/ and Art News NZ Autumn issue (2011).