Not A Super City

This work sets out to explore the materiality of everyday objects in our daily environment that fills our cupboards, drawers, our bags and shelves of hardware shops, discount stores. They are so part of our daily lives that we hardly notice their existence.

In this installation, the objects do not remain in the dogmatic arrangement but are free from their functionality. They acquire a different persona and are transformed in order to become whatever they might be.

The three dimensional obsessive and intricate miniaturized arrangement of this vivid and wide-ranging display of everyday material attempts to create a silent and intimate discourse that allows for the exploration of the real and imaginary worlds. The small things we imagine simply transport us back to our childhood discoveries, to fantasy and to the familiarity with toys, games and play.

Serene Thain's Exhibitions

2010 - Finalist in the 19th Wallace Trust Award
2009 - Dust 1.2 Collective at St Paul Street Gallery Three, Symond Street, Auckland
2009 - Dust Dispersion Collective at Artstation, Ponsonby, Auckland
2008 - Headland, Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
2008 - Finalist in the 17th Wallace Trust Award
2008 - Misty Frequencies, (curated by Karl Chistholm) Whakatane Museum and Gallery
2006 - Finalist in the 15th Wallace Trust Award
            Work selected for the travelling exhibition to Pataka Gallery, Wellington
            Work purchased by the Wallace Trust
2006 - Please mind my.... (Group Exhibition curated by Liz Morganson) Artstation, Auckland
2006 - Spatial (Group Exhibition) Pakuranga Art Gallery
2005 - Pilot Project at Gallery 2, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
2005 - Group Exhibition (curated by Jane Thresher) Ellerslie, Auckland
2004 - My Mother Said (curated by Andrea Best and Trish Scott) Artstation, Auckland
2001 - Flux 01, Graduation Show, The Depot, Devonport, Auckland

Photographer John-Paul Pochin