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Dane Mitchell

DANE MITCHELL

Archive of Dust, Room 18 Two Rooms 15 November–20 December 2025 Auckland
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Archive of Dust, Room 18 stems from a project artist Dane Mitchell began in 2001, involving the ongoing collection of dust from museums and galleries around the world from which bacteria is cultured. The longevity of Dane Mitchell’s accumulation of dust over nearly 25 years now contains samples from hundreds of institutions. Archive of Dust, Room 18 focusses on dust collected in Room 18 at the British Museum, the current resting place of The Parthenon Marbles.

Alongside the series of 12 photographic works produced from scans of bacterial growth grown from the dust gathered in Room 18 is Room 18 Air Sample, 2024 which captures the atmospheric essence of Room 18. Encapsulating the air in a hermetic void, Room 18 Air Sample holds a hollow space that suspends and captures a present. This present contains the imprint of bodies, bacteria, and objects, now held in a device designed to capture air samples for Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry analysis. Unlike traditional forms of cultural displacement, the air’s removal from Room 18 creates no void in its original location.

Room 18 Air Sample is also accompanied by a letter-work (a form first employed by the artist in 1997) to the British Museum requesting access to make the air capture and describe the future analysis and synthesis of the scent of Room 18.

Francesca Zappia

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Selected Works

Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.1 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.1), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.10 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.10), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.11 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.11), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.12 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.12), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.2 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.2, 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.3 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.3), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.4 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.4), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.5 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.5), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.6 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.6), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.7 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.7), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.8 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.8), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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Archive of Dust British Museum Room 18 no.9 by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.9), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025) Giclee print, aluminium
80 x 80 cm
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British Museum Room 18 Air Sample by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork sculpture
Dane Mitchell British Museum Room 18 Air Sample, 2025 Stainless steel, mild steel, air
26 x 24 x 34 cm
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Letter to the Keeper by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork print
Dane Mitchell Letter to the Keeper, 2025 Giclee print, aluminium
85 x 11 cm
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Ultraviolet A test image M. Harrison by Dane Mitchell contemporary artwork sculpture
Dane Mitchell Ultraviolet A, (test image, M. Harrison), 2025 Polyester
145 x 214 cm
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About the Artist

Since graduating from the Auckland University of Technology in 1998 Dane Mitchell has exhibited a series of controversial works, (for example; placing a witch’s curse on a gallery), considering ideologies, systems, hierarchies and social behaviours.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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