Frivolous Indulgences and Obsessive Follies

painting sculpture drawing

by Heather Bramwell, Ani Fourie & Lorraine Pemberton

10August - 5 September

For this show the brief was to keep a feel of whimsy in the work we produced.  To ensure we were not being too serious whilst undertaking our work in our usual serious manner.

Heather Bramwell

For me the Gehena series started as a frivolous indulgence and has continued as an obsessive folly.  The series began whilst I was teaching myself to paint in oils. I chose a subject matter that I was not precious about and amused me so I wouldn’t get too upset at failures in the process. I continued because it tickled my fancy to make work that, in a visual and anthropomorphic manner, expressed my fox terriers’ numerous neuroses.

This series is the documentation of a fictitious family history. An echo of the wall that has key images of moments that record lives lived.

Ani Fourie

Virginai Stutterly, Lady explorer, had a hankering for adventure… What she found both terrorized and fascinated her. 

Lorraine Pemberton

MY OBSESSION WITH FRIVOLOUS INDULGENCES : My familial Huia groups displayed depict the results of an obsessive and frivolous Victorian vanity and greed of the European tone. Their obsession resulted in the extinction of a very noble race. The Huia.