Arthaus Contemporary

228 Orakei Rd, Remuera, Auckland

11th - 29th August 2021

Opening Event - Thursday 12th Aug 5-8pm

This exhibition explores 2 different approaches to portraiture by 2 different artists. One is a photographer and the other a painter. Pye has produced a series of self portraits as Craftsman, different artisans whose stories seem steeped in history. From the industrial revolution to globalisation's erasure of any clear finishing line. We have evolved the ability to manufacture bigger, faster and cheaper. Pye asks what has been lost in the process, not the least of which is craft. Through the craft of painting Barns-Graham has produced a similily sombre portrayal of the future of consumerism. These portraits of beautiful women have an underlying melancholy about them. They seem just as uncertain of the future as Pye's self portraits