Containment

Joint show with ceramic artist Fran Maguire
- the gallery at WOOLLASTON, Nelson 

2nd March - 30th April 2014

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In this body of work Fieldes, raised on a North Island sheep and cattle farm, turns her attention to fragments of family history, confrontation, colonization, and the transformation of the land as early settlers tried to create ‘Little England’ in the antipodes.  Symbolising our ongoing battle to contain pest species – and their containment of pre-colonial flora and fauna in shrinking enclaves – by the ceramic vessels which dominate her work, Fieldes creates a rich tableau of the imported and indigenous within the New Zealand landscape. 

Containment 2014 - Hexad of paintings, oil on linen, each 1400mm x 700mm

• Fed Up Fed Up
• Fed Up Too Fed Up Too
• Magpie Sentry Magpie Sentry
• Sentry Duty Sentry Duty
• The Sentinels The Sentinels
• Rabbit Source Rabbit Source
• Triptych of crosses Triptych of crosses
• Eye on Nature Eye on Nature
• Egg Egg
• Feed or Breed Feed or Breed
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more details of Fran Maguire's work here www.franmaguire.co.nz