Instructional Models | 21 Apr - 16 May

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The Blue Oyster Gallery is pleased to present Instructional Models; a propositional exhibition instigated by Terri Bird and Julie Davies, in association with the artist-run initiatives Ocular Lab and Clubsproject Inc. in Melbourne, and facilitated by Neil Emmerson Head of Print Studio at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.

For Instructional Models a group of Dunedin based artists have been invited to create works based on their interpretation of instructions or parameters sent to them by artists in Melbourne. The proposals are purposefully open to interpretation, with the potential for re-orientation, re-ordering or rejection; and involve everything from tennis ball machines to collections of botanical data. The accumulated results of these interpretations, exchanges and responses will be shown at the Blue Oyster from Tuesday 21 April and until Saturday 16 May. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the Aotearoa New Zealand Arts Educators Conference, hosted by the School of Art.

Melbourne artists: Terri Bird, Julie Davies, Raafat Ishak, Sean Loughrey, Jonathan Luker, Sally Mannall, Tom Nicholson, Nikos Pantazis, Spiros Panigirakis, Alex Rizkalla, Fleur Summers and the Open Spatial Workshop.

Dunedin artists: Clare Fleming, Rohana Weaver, Ali Bramwell, Lars Preisser, Sophie Black, Peter Gorman, Max Bellamy, Christine Keller, Bibiana Guevara-Hunter, Karen Taiaroa-Smithies, Alex Lovell-Smith, Anna Muirhead, Victoria Bell, Lee Houlihan, Max Oettli and Inge Flint