A FREE Art Exhibition @SILO 6

January 16 – 29, 2024

The iconic Silo6 is set to be transformed into a captivating space for creative exploration and environmental contemplation as it hosts the “Fluid Becoming…” exhibition. Three artists; Alysn Midgelow Marsden, Mette Hay and Janet Mazenier bring their individual and unique immersive installations across the six silos, exploring the Fluid Becoming theme’s elements of Inertia, Choice, Wonder and Place. Multiple performances, ‘activations’ and hands-on activity workshops, will be offered throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Where & When

Silo6, Silo Park

65-75 Jellicoe Street, Corner of Jellicoe and Beaumont Street, Auckland CBD

January 16th – 29th

DAILY
11am – 8pm

65-75 Jellicoe St, Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand

Performances

Kingsley-Spargo & Kim Meredth – January 22nd & 25th at 6PM and 7pm

Poet and multimedia artist Kim Meredith (Sāmoan, Tokelaun, Portuguese), and multi-instrumentalist/sound artist Kingsley Spargo respond to Mette Hay’s mesmerising installation Wonder as part of the Fluid Becoming… exhibition. While you might have caught their captivating performances in various galleries around Tāmaki Makaurau, these performances promise to be an altogether new experience in the reverberant Silo6.

Thomas Carroll – January 23 TBC

Thomas Carroll, ngāti Maru, Hauraki, is a Taonga puoro maker and practitioner. With a shared kopapa this will be a truly mesmerising engagement.

Meet the Artists

Alysn Midgelow Marsden

Alysn is an internationally recognized fine art textile artist known for her boundary-breaking work with metal, wire, fibre, textile, and stitch. **Read More …**

Mette Hay

Mette is a multi-disciplinary artist and biophilic spatial designer, focusing on the potential of sound as a portal to the unseen.
**Read More …**

Janet Mazenier

Janet’s abstract art practice explores place, space, time, and materiality, using a variety of techniques to create uniquely textured artworks. **Read More …**

Fluid Becoming …

Inertia – Alysn’s installation in Silo2 presents visitors with reclaimed plastic, wire, and video come together to form a unique visual landscape, evoking emotions of emptiness, loss, and sadness, but also the potential for change.

Choice – Alysn’s installation in Silo1 explores the concept of choice for our future. Geological style core samples hang from the silo, each section representing different stages in our relationship with the environment.

Wonder – Mette’s installation in Silo 3 is an immersive experience offering the opportunity of discovering wonder and beauty even in the most austere of spaces, using visualised sound as a portal into the unseen.

Place – Janet’s installations in Silo 5 and 6 presents large abstract works which are rich in texture and inspired by the natural world. These pieces engage with place, space, time, colour, and materiality, offering you a sensory and visual journey.

Get in Touch

FLUID BECOMING…

FluidBecoming@gmail.com