Artist Miriam Ruberl
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URBAN ECHO ROTORUA ARTISTS EXHIBITION AUGUST- SEPT 2010

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This is an exciting initiative led by Kristian Lomath, extraordinary artist of Rotorua, a full 360 degrees of the exhibition taken early in September 2010 can be seen at Rotorua Artists
Currently some 35+ artists are participating, promising of great creative juices to come !!

The venue is an empty ex mall, a huge empty shell of a place, perfect for this kind of actvity, and something that really works for me - responding to a site ... hence my contributions as per photos below









© all images Miriam Ruberl


ABOVE : 
TITLE :              93 x 16 Vertical 

MATERIALS :           Mutton cloth and  Wax 
SUPPORT :               Stretched commercial support 
MEDIUM :                Horizontality 


  DESCRIPTION : Made within the same context and process as described below with the canvas and wax works, mutton cloth has wonderful everyday associations and uses, and the wax mixture in this case is primarily paraffin wax – the wax of no affinity.

The graphic was used for my personal invitations to the opening ...
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TITLE :                30 x 33 Stack MATERIALS :    Cotton and Wax MEDIUM :          Horizontality
DESCRIPTION : This work consists of 120 pieces of cotton torn in the traditional dimensions of a man’s hankie, dipped in paraffin wax and thrown to the floor, where it then cooled.   Placed in response to the broken glass work and broken window nearby, it also makes use of the markings on the floor and the echo of the square / rectangle shapes of the other works on the wall, the window, the paint strips on the wall and the wooden framing.  Whilst the process of making the individual squares focussed on throwing and stacking, this placing is more in response to being more in sympathy with the fortunes of the building as a whole.

Basquiat's Scarf

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TITLE :                        3M Encircling MATERIALS :           Mutton cloth, Wax MEDIUM :                Horizontality


DESCRIPTION : Part of a body of work exploring the same medium of horizontality, processes with the materials, (mutton cloth and paraffin wax), and the repetitive encircling action that produced a coil. This is echoed in that the work encircles on its own axis in the slightest breeze, and echoes, in its tension, expectations that it will surely come undone.
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This mutton cloth got the benefit of some dye that came out of the cotton of a previous wax and cotton throw ... had just been reading about Basquiat and his girlfriend meeting his lover wearing the former's scarf !
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TITLE :                16 x 93 Vertical MATERIALS :      Raw Canvas and Wax SUPPORT :          Commercial  canvas MEDIUM :            Horizontality

DESCRIPTION : This, and the 16 x 93 Horizontal, are of a number of pieces exploring the use of canvas, normally the support for paint in visual art, as the material of visual interest, and working on the horizontal plane.  Experiments with waxes have produced a wax mixture, in this case primarily soy wax, that withstands considerable everyday heat, handling and transport.   
Of great relevance to me is the questioning of notions of strength and durability as opposed to the potential emptiness and limitation of implied deterioration. While in no way seeking to illustrate events in my life, my work arises directly out of my life experience.

I am interested in the play of natural light on naturally coloured materials without the complication of coloured pigments, using traditional materials in unusual ways, and in these days of greater ecological awareness and concern, using industrial or traditional products, by-products,  or even waste-products, that have a lot of other uses, as both wax and canvas do. These works also refer to the power of repetition, of line, and scale, and their evocative power to echo our experience of the world and of our bodies.

art afoot...

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The floor is covered in wonderful traces of prior uses .... 

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