Wood for the Trees

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Thu 25 Aug ’11, 6:00pm–8:00pm	Saving
Fri 26 Aug ’11, 10:00am–4:30pm	Saving
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Where: Lopdell House, 418 Titirangi Rd, Titirangi Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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www.lopdell.org.nz

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Celebrating International Year of Forests.

John Lyall, Michael Shepherd, Russell Moses, Tanya Ruka, Derek March.

Opening Thursday 25 August, 6pm.

Perched on the edge of the splendid Waitakere Ranges rainforests, Titirangi is an ideal spot to pause and reflect upon the significance of trees - and to celebrate the International Year of Forests. Wood for the Trees brings together five divergent artists - incorporating sculpture, painting, maths, history, moving image, sound and photography - each with thought-provoking visions of forests, and mankind's use or misuse of them.

In Forest of Curves: Afloat John Lyall's constructed arabesques, drawn from the history of mathematics, pose as our historic and present day forests. Bush and agribusiness, nature and culture; these Cartesian curves reflect a European intellectual heritage washed up on our far-flung shore, and left to wreak havoc.

Michael Shepherd also reflects on history and the present in three searching portrayals of New Zealand's lamentable treatment of native forests. With an acute awareness of the complexities of history and its many interpretations, Shepherd presents stark yet alluring, richly layered scenarios for us to contemplate.

Russell Moses captures the spirit of trees through a rich palette of hues and textures meticulously painted onto hundreds of aluminium lozenge shapes arranged in graceful geometric forms. His large wall sculptures pay homage to the kauri and pohutukawa and to the painter Colin McCahon, who was also inspired by the majestic kauri trees of Titirangi.

Tanya Ruka's moving image and sound projection work, Tane Mahuta God of the Forest combines light, paint, photography, the sound of birds and the haunting purerehua to create a meditative forest environment. And from her recent trip to Nepal, to attend the International Indigenous Film Festival, Ruka presents Gokarna Forest, a kaleidoscopic study of light and leaves.

In the Street Gallery space Derek March's Landscape of Ghosts documents the haunting islands of remnant kahikatea scattered across dairy farms on the Hauraki Plains along with a video of water immersed mature kahikatea forest, conjuring a vision of the Ooahaouragee forest that so amazed Cook and his party in 1769.