Act Natural

Marie Blampain, Geoffrey Heath, Gilbert Melrose, Christina Pataialii, Meg Porteous, Cass Power, John Tiger Shen, Yvonne Todd and Susan Wiggins

Curated by Yvonne Todd

McLeavey Gallery
Level 1, 147 Cuba Street
Wellington

29 May – 19 June 2021

Opening: Saturday 29 May from 5pm

Part of Face to Face Portrait Festival

Curated by Yvonne Todd for Face to Face Portrait Festival, Act Natural brings together 20+ works by nine artists – many of whom will be showing at McLeavey Gallery for the first time.

Featuring work by Marie Blampain, Geoffrey Heath, Gilbert Melrose, Christina Pataialii, Meg Porteous, Cass Power, John Tiger Shen, Yvonne Todd and Susan Wiggins, the exhibition explores everyday performance – the ways in which we contort ourselves to deflect scrutiny and fly under the radar or blatantly ignore convention to embrace absurdity.

With subjects ranging from wrestlers to naturalists, homoerotic bikers and women adorned with kitchenware, the exhibition promises to be potent and full of intrigue...

The Gallery will be open until 9pm as part of the Late Night event and will host a series of performances by Wallace – a singer songwriter who fuses soul, hip-hop and pop.

Talk: Yvonne Todd will be reminiscing with fellow artist and long-time friend, Geoffrey Heath, on Sunday 30 May about their days running a wedding photography business. More info to follow.

Please contact the gallery for more information and the exhibition catalogue.

grace@mcleaveygallery.com 021 225 2283

Taking place 27-30 May 2021, Face to Face is a four day programme of free art events, including exhibitions, talks, tours, workshops and performances.

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