Lauren Lysaght: The Nita Gini Collection

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Where: City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square, 101 Wakefield St, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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www.citygallery.org.nz

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Lauren Lysaght presents a unique gathering of ‘Crown Lynn’ objects, drawing on her grandmother Nita Gini’s collection. These objects are all constructed by the artist using cardboard, plaster of Paris and an array of other craft and found materials. Lysaght has also created the plinths and display furniture for the exhibition, using bizarre and highly theatrical materials including fake leopard-skin fabric, wood veneer and found items.

Veering dramatically from the formality with which collections are often presented, The Nita Gini Collection represents a singular and idiosyncratic response to the Crown Lynn story familiar to many New Zealanders. The exhibition adopts a brassy, mischievous and indomitably homemade aesthetic to consider objects we often call ‘precious’, in a new and extremely colourful light.