Parnell INK: White Night in Parnell

A vibrant festival of free street-art events in

Auckland's Creative Quarter


ONE NIGHT ONLY! Saturday March 12, from 6pm to midnight

10 visionary art projects along Parnell Road

Kevin Capon: After Mere Kururangi

Kevin Capon's After Mere Kururangi takes its form from an ancient Maori meditation in Poi, projected to monumental size on the side of a building. Like a ghost it appears only for the duration of White Night and disappears at sunrise the next day.

White Night Location: 156 Parnell Road (projection on left wall of Portofino building)

Clinton Phillips: Polyphonics

Clinton Phillips' installation exaggerates scale to the point of complete abstraction; the violin bridge which provides the form for this large-scale polystyrene sculpture becomes anthropomorphised, resembling the two-dimensional aliens of early arcade video games. Phillips deftly conjures the image of a 'space invader,' obliquely suggesting essential themes of environmentalism in his art practice, referenced through scale and his choice of caustic materials.

White Night Location: 190 Parnell Road (Heard Park) from 6pm - 11pm

Michelle Osborne: ‘The Fieldman Academy of Love and Kindness: how to make a tissue parcel'

Performance artist Michelle Osborne offers a work both socially engaging and politically provocative. In this participative project, viewers will be invited to 'attend' the 'Fieldman Academy of Love and Kindness' and learn how to make a tissue parcel.

Osborne re-imagines the story of Samuel Duncan Parnell and invites people to be part of a' re-imagined history' in order to re-think things and to alert them to deeper issues. By placing the viewer within the work, Osborne gathers inspiration from the local and the familiar, and experiments with the potential for ideas and materials to be found in unexpected places.

White Night Location: 327 Parnell Road (Hartfield Jewellers & Paper-art-sie), from 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Cut Collective: Our salad days are over...

The Cut Collective is an Auckland-based art collective whose potent installations adorn the streets of Auckland and Aotearoa, and have been commissioned for both Auckland Art Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The cooperative of artists have backgrounds variously in commercial art, illustration and exhibition curation, with a strong emphasis on street-based art projects. Our salad days are over continues the Collective's philosophy of taking street art to new levels, promoting ideas of accessibility, and supporting creative dialogues within communities.
White Night Location: Geyser buidling construction site Parnell Road cnr Garfield St

Meighan Ellis: The Absent

Meighan Ellis presents large-scale filmed 'portraits' - seated subjects that stare out of their projections displaying embarrassment, boredom and discontent; disturbing our assumptions about public image and the intimate act of portrait-sitting. The Absent deals with the treachery of portraiture; the ability of traditional portraits to present a performance; a deceitful staging of a public image. This is disrupted in these moving portraits, as the viewer becomes aware of the sitters' discomfort in holding their pose, their self-consciousness in the public display, and their unease due to the camera's tarnished reputation.

White Night Location: 225 Parnell Road (Mint Living)

Alissa West: Herd II

Alissa West's monumental, site-specific work examines the power structures of the Western Art canon, employing musicological artifacts to deconstruct the legitimacy of the art institution. Utilising life-sized taxidermy animal forms, West fills space with a formalist structure that belies the fiction she exposes. The artifacts she presents reveal the illusory nature of the space itself. The forms are mirrored and repeated to imply direction, beyond the limitations of the space, but the removal of distinct points of focus exposes the absence of any destination.

White Night Location: 339 Parnell Road, cnr Birdwood Crescent (Parnell Workshop)

Dagmar Andres-Dahmen: Site-specific installation

Interested in feminism and the clichéd perception of women's art as being predominantly craft, Dagmer Andres-Dahmen relishes this construct in her installation, creating interwoven pieces which erupt and curve around walls and spaces, like giant and unintelligible pieces of embroidery. Her installations have the ability to both seduce and repel viewers, creating dichotomies of decoration and grotesque, with organic forms that allude to the beautiful and to the disfigured.

White Night Location: 145 Parnell Road (ASB Bank)

Yolunda Hickman: Moon

Yolunda Hickman's art practice is concerned with ideas of scale and space and the navigation of spaces, which she explores both in sculptural installations and works on paper. The moon is our closest neighbour, the final frontier of our daily familiar and the first obstacle in space. It is suspended in the sky above and controls the tides, weather and seasons here on earth. The 1:5,000,000 scale of the installation creates a base for comparative relationships of scale and distance when the tremendous reality of such numbers renders them abstract.

White Night Location: 390 Parnell Road (old Parnell Library building)

Michelle Beattie: Landscape

Michelle Beattie borrows the materials and techniques of hobbyists to construct a reality based on accumulated collected spaces from reality and memory. Places that prompt memories and imaginations become blurred to create new idealised versions of a location, which often surpass the original place. Mimicking the traditional landscape painting, Beattie's work is viewed through a window; the viewer is given an intimate encounter with the landscape, the work revealing its construction processes, the artist creating the work as a child plays with a dolls' house, the viewer becomes aware of the miniature and the imaginings that could exist in this space.

White Night Location: 223 Parnell Road (essenze)

Shannon Novak: Sonic Meal

Emerging artist Shannon Novak is preoccupied with Geometric Abstraction, which is evident in his use of geometric forms to represent his abiding interest in the link between sound, colour and emotion. Novak takes cues from his background as a pianist to create Sonic Meal, a work concerned with the loss of 'soul' brought about by the digitization of music, where electronically generated sounds have come to replace actual instruments and voices.

White Night Location: Holy Trinity Cathedral forecourt, St Stephens Ave

Thanks to the following Parnell Road businesses for their invaluable support in accommodating these projects:
Alison's Acquisitions, ASB Bank Parnell, essenze, Hartfields Jewellers, Macky Roberton, Mid-Century Design, Mint Design & Gift, Paper-art-sie, Parnell Village Workshop, Portofino and Holy Trinity Cathedral. Also thanks to Auckland Council.

This event is proudly sponsored by Imago Print Centre, Parnell

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