Michael Lett gallery presents As long as you want, an exhibition of painting, print, and sculpture from Kate Newby (Aotearoa New Zealand/USA) and Paul P. (Canada).
Kate Newby
Her voice :,,,,))))
2020
Wood and gas high-fired stoneware, porcelain, mason stain, and glaze
Total dimensions 6500 x 90 x 80mm
Installation dimensions variable
20 pieces
Kate Newby’s ceramic tiles trace the impressions of people and place across time. Handmade, using terracotta drainage pipes as an armature, the tiles are structured in vertical lines that cut through the gallery.
Crafted in her childhood home at Te Henga (Bethells Beach), the tiles bear the textures and indentations of that place—her brother’s wooden benchtops, her mother’s gardening shed, the concrete floors of a space used as both a workshop and pottery studio at different times.
The clay tiles, mixed with sand from Lake Wainamu, were wood and gas-fired over twelve months, indexing the material, social, cultural, and familial sediments of a site and its inhabitants.
Kate Newby
UGH MAGIC
2020
Wood and gas high-fired stoneware, porcelain, mason stain, and glaze
Two parts 3800 x 170 x 120 each
Installation dimensions variable
24 pieces
Paul P.
Untitled
2011
Oil on linen
270 x 220mm
Paul P.
Untitled
2019
Oil on linen
270 x 190mm
Paul P.’s intimate canvases draw lines towards and away from a historical moment for queer sensuality. His portraits are cropped from gay erotic magazines produced in the period between the advent of gay liberation and the surfacing of the AIDS crisis.
Pulled from this slade between two radically different eras of gay visibility, P.’s subjects are painted with a nineteenth-century symbolist’s mix of fantasy and fidelity that suffuses each face with melancholy and apprehension—figures caught between danger and desire.
The portraits are joined by architectural extractions, landscapes, and monochromes that further produce an askance view of this time and place.
Paul P.
Untitled
2012
Oil on linen
350 x 240mm
Paul P.
Untitled
2019
Oil on linen
240 x 160mm
Kate Newby
You saved my Life again, Poet (left)
2020
Wood and gas high-fired stoneware, porcelain, mason stain, and glaze
2430 x 380 x 180mm
7 pieces
Paul P.
Untitled
2020
Oil on linen
240 x 160mm
Kate Newby
I am missing my friends (right)
2020
Wood and gas high-fired stoneware, porcelain, mason stain, and glaze
2340 x 320 x 200mm
6 pieces
Paul P.
Untitled
2019
Oil on linen
270 x 190mm
Paul P.
Untitled
2020
Oil on linen
240 x 160mm
Kate Newby
its just concrete
2020
Salt fired stoneware and porcelain, and collected glass shards
Dimensions variable
Kate Newby
Stand by for what?
2020
Wood and gas fired porcelain
830 x 240 x 65mm
5 pieces
Kate Newby
That part, right there
2020
Wood fired stoneware
610 x 260 x 75mm
2 pieces
Kate Newby
I stopped watching
2020
Wood fired stoneware
590 x 250 x 85mm
2 pieces
Kate Newby
We will definitely be back.
2020
Soft ground etching
559 x 432 mm / 630 x 515mm framed
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Printed Auckland Print Studio at Unitec, 2020
Kate Newby
Twice Visited
2020
Soft ground etching
559 x 432 mm / 630 x 515mm framed
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Printed Auckland Print Studio at Unitec, 2020
Kate Newby
Impossible Songs
2020
Soft ground etching
559 x 432 mm / 630 x 515mm framed
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Printed Auckland Print Studio at Unitec, 2020
Kate Newby
made a start
2020
Soft ground etching
559 x 432 mm / 630 x 515mm framed
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Printed Auckland Print Studio at Unitec, 2020
Kate Newby
let it waft around in the wash
2020
Soft ground etching
559 x 432 mm / 630 x 515mm framed
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Printed Auckland Print Studio at Unitec, 2020
