Dark places - an exhibition

Dark places - an exhibition

Every city has it dark corners which always seem more eerie in the night time hours.

Nationally acclaimed artist Daniel Unverricht, who grew up in Hastings, likes to investigate those “unsettling urban and suburban spaces” and then bring them alive on canvas.

His exhibition, Ghosting, is on at Hastings City Art Gallery from February 13 to the end of April.

“Ghosting focuses my vision on the unsettling urban and suburban spaces of Hastings and Napier. Exploring the architectural environment over the human, I aim to evoke a sense of the still, empty, night-time darkness that surrounds these spaces,” Unverricht says.

“Dimly lit empty spaces are often claustrophobically confined . . . [drawing] their power from the narrative each viewer brings to the work; the fear of dangers that lurk in the dark, the fear of being a victim.”

Gallery director Toni Mackinnon says Unverricht is “a serious player in the art scene at a national level”.

“We are thrilled to have him return to the Bay with this significant body of work . . . It is perfect to see these paintings in the context of the area that they derive from.

While Unverricht now lives in Wellington, his art career started at Havelock North High School, where art was his favourite subject. He went on to study painting at Eastern Institute of Technology and then at Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating Master of Fine Arts.

He has twice won the Hawke's Bay Art Review supreme award and his work has been included in solo and group private shows and in public art gallery exhibitions. His works are in the collection of the Hawke's Bay Museum, the Wallace Arts Trust, Real Art Roadshow and several of New Zealand’s leading senior artists and gallery directors.

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