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Fresh is a series which profiles the work of thirteen of New Zealand's most exciting current practitioners. All recent graduates from arts institutions, both local and international, these artists draw on a vast terrain of medium and criticality's, giving an overview of the diversity and depth of contemporary practice today.

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Dan Arps: A Winter Garden
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Eddie Clemens: Moat
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Epic (2) Melissa Laing
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Travel Stories VI: Otira/Germany - Schnittstelle/Interface Time Capture Boxes: Otira Ina Johann
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Cineary: Nathan Pohio
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Sugar Takes Out Candy (detail)
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From Below: Sera Jensen and Brendan Lee
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Marcus Moore
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Dane Mitchell
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Paula Collier
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Continuing The Physics Room's ongoing interest in supporting the practices of emerging and experimental artists, Fresh is a series which profiles the work of thirteen of New Zealand's most exciting current practitioners. All recent graduates from arts institutions, both local and international, these artists draw on a vast terrain of medium and criticality's, giving an overview of the diversity and depth of contemporary practice today.

December 2000 saw the first three shows in the Fresh series, with new work by Christchurch based artists Eddie Clemens, Dan Arps, and Ella Reed. Graduates from the University of Canterbury's School of Fine Arts, their work is informed by both the stark aestheticism of an art historical minimalism, and the throwaway consumerism of contemporary pop culture. Landscape and the environment appear as central tenets in all three exhibitions, in installations which owe as much to Stephen Tindall's The Warehouse as they do the land art movement of the 1970's and 80's.

Dan Arps
A Winter Garden
December 13 - 23 2000

Eddie Clemens
Moat
December 13 - 23 2000

Ella Reed
Untitled (Summer Show)
December 13 - 23 2000

The second part of our Fresh series contains three shows by artists whose work all carries a sense of anticipation and mystery, where the peripheries or suggested exteriors of the work tantalize and tease the viewer.

Epic (2)
Melissa Laing
February 20 - March 17, 2001

Travel Stories VI: Otira/Germany - Schnittstelle/Interface
Time Capture Boxes: Otira
Ina Johann
February 20 - March 17, 2001

Cineary
Nathan Pohio
February 20 - March 17, 2001

The third in this four part series sees two shows which run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous, encompassing suspended video projections, a timezone of ticking clocks, take out noodles, and revenge!

TAKE OUT (Sugar Takes Out Candy)
Julaine Stephenson
May 3 - May 20, 2001

From Below
Sera Jensen and Brendan Lee
May 3 - May 20, 2001

The final installment of Fresh at the Physics Room, sees three shows which play with tradition and risk, prodding, tweaking, and exploring physical and personal boundaries.

A GOOD TRADITION WELL MAINTAINED
Marcus Moore
August 22 - September 8 2001

RISKY BUSINESS
Dane Mitchell
August 22 - September 8 2001

RECREATION
Paula Collier
August 22 - September 8 2001

Reviews & Essays

Fresh - A series profiling Contemporary New Zealand Practitioners
Essay by Lee Devenish
in The Physics Room Annual 2001
ISBN 0-9582359-1-0

Classy to dull
The Press, 2001 Mar. 14, p. 34
Ussher, Robyn.
Installations by Melissa Laing, Ina Johann, Nathan Pohio.

Images looking up
The Press, 2001 May 16, p. 36
Ussher, Robyn.
From Below: an installation by Brendan Lee and Sera Jensen; Take Out by Julaine Stevenson.

Strutting their stuff
The Press, 2001 Aug. 29, p. 34
Peers, Robyn.
Recreation by Paula Collier; Risky Business by Dane Mitchell; A Good Tradition Well Maintained by Marcus Moore.