Scape Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Auction 6 August 2011, Auckland City

The Art & Industry Biennial Trust (producers of the SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space) is holding an earthquake recovery auction on Saturday 6th August 2011. The auction is being held in association with Art + Object in Auckland City to raise funds to go towards the future production of SCAPE artists' projects and programmes.

Due to the extraordinary circumstances of the 4th September 2010 and 22nd February 2011 earthquakes, the 6th SCAPE was unable to go ahead on both occasions. Now re-scheduled for commencement from August 2011, the SCAPE Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Auction is the first event in three months of temporary public art installations, artist talks and public programmes scheduled for Auckland and Christchurch. To download a full catalogue click here. [4]

Caroline Rothwell, Spectogram Landscape _"You're either with us or against us"_, embroidery thread on stretched canvas 2/3, 2007, 580mm x 900mm, Courtesy of the Artist. www.carolinerothwell.net [5]

"SCAPE participant artists were invited, following their many offers of help, to contribute works for the auction, and we have been overwhelmed by the level of support and quality of artworks that have been donated to the auction - it's a truly wonderful gesture of artists assisting artists" says Deborah McCormick, Director of the SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space. "Artists of the calibre of Tacita Dean, Susan Norrie, Paul Hartigan and Bill Culbert have donated photographs, prints, drawings and small scale sculptural works for auction. Auction attendees will have an unprecedented opportunity to purchase works by some of the world's most highly regarded contemporary artists." Artists who have donated works to be auctioned include: Billy Apple, Mladen Bizumic, Michel de Broin, Heman Chong, Bill Culbert, Bijan Dawallu & Remco Schuurbiers, Tacita Dean, Ayşe Erkmen, Regan Gentry, Darryn George, Paul Hartigan, David Hatcher, Lonnie Hutchinson, Jeroen Jongeleen, Anu Lehtonen, Dane Mitchell, Simon Morris, Callum Morton, Susan Norrie, Anton Parsons, Reuben Paterson, Peter Roche, Caroline Rothwell, Karin Sander, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Marnie Slater and Michel Tuffery.

Tacita Dean, _Longstone Lighthouse_, (location photograph, 1996) 2002, photograph from an edition of 25, 350mm x 530mm, Courtesy of the Artist and Frith Street Gallery, www.frithstreetgallery.com [6]

"We see this auction as a way to strengthen the relationship that the Trust has with this highly esteemed group of artists - all of whom we have worked with as a part of previous biennials. Without their participation in SCAPE we would never have come this far" says Adrienne, Lady Stewart; Governing Patron, Art & Industry Biennial Trust.

THE 6TH SCAPE CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY AUCTION WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST 2011 AT 6PM AT ACHILLES HOUSE, LEVEL 5, 8 COMMERCE STREET, AUCKLAND CITY.

VIEWING TIMES: FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST 9.00AM - 4.00PM AND SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST 10.00AM - 4.00PM.

A fully illustrated online catalogue is available at www.scapebiennial.org.nz, [7] www.artandobject.co.nz [8]or click here to download. [9]

Grateful thanks to our sponsors Art + Object: Hamish Coney and Ben Plumbly, and Krukziener Properties: Andrew Krukziener.

SCAPE CHRISTCHURCH ARTIST PROJECTS: AN OVERVIEW

The Art & Industry Biennial Trust are pleased to be able to present these 6th SCAPE artists' projects after being twice interrupted by Christchurch's earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011.

This year's rethought event will achieve an even broader national audience; producing large-scale public artworks for temporary display in Auckland and Christchurch.

6th SCAPE Christchurch projects will be launched in Christchurch on 12 August to coincide with Christchurch Arts Festival and Christchurch's The Body Dance Festival. Four thought-provoking, large-scale artists' works are confirmed for Christchurch. Darryn George of Christchurch's_ The Lambs' Book of Life (Folder Wall)_ will wrap the entire side of a central city building. Turkish artist Ahmet Öğüt's interactive carousel _Waiting for a Bus_ will provide a location for people to stop and consider the changing face of their city. Ash Keating's fictional property development _Gardensity_ will be able to be visited both physically at the Christchurch Art Gallery Forecourt and online at www.gardensity.co.nz [11]. Anton Parsons' _Passing Time_, a permanent installation which was installed in late 2010, will continue to be on view at Wilson Reserve (entrance to CPIT) at St Asaph and Madras Streets.

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DARRYN GEORGE: _THE LAMBS' BOOK OF LIFE (FOLDER WALL)_

__SCAPE Artist Darryn George's work _The Lambs' Book of Life (Folder Wall) _is both a painting and a sculpture on an enormous scale.

Previously designed for the former Government Life Tower Building in Cathedral Square, Darryn George's revised work will envelop the newly exposed western wall of the Christchurch Civic Offices, formerly obscured by the St Elmo Courts Building.

George's design is based upon an internal view of a filing cabinet drawer with the receding label tabs of suspended folders seen as a metaphor for the function of records and registers in Christian theology. The work brings a fresh sense of hope into an increasingly busy section of central city.

LOCATION: Christchurch Civic Offices Building Montreal Street Wall DATES: 12 August - 30 November 2011

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