Expanded drawing explored at Te Auaha Gallery exhibition, Old House
Sketch creatures, a conversation with site.
The Old House in Kaikōura, on which the exhibition is centred.
South Bay, Kaikōura.
Simon Twose will be talking at the City Gallery in Wellington on Monday 16 October, as part of Te Kāhui Whaihanga’s City Talks series.
Drawing the unfixed, personal and planetary architectural sketches.
As part of his ongoing research into ‘expanded drawing’, associate professor at the Wellington School of Architecture Simon Twose has collaborated with Anastasia Globa, Oliver Prisk and Ella Jones on an exhibition currently showing at Te Auaha Gallery in Wellington.
Old House sketches a tiny, run-down family house, sitting at the edge of the sea in Kaikōura, Aotearoa, through ‘expanded’ architecture drawings.
The little house seems to be in conversation with its vast context. It has complex miniature microclimates: tiny variations in surface, dust, light, air, sound – birds nesting in the roof – as well as memory, lost gardens, clumsy attempts at repair. Outside are enormous weather systems, an immense sea and dynamic rock.
Old House attempts to capture the strange architecture of this conversation. A series of multi-media ‘sketch creatures’ explore architecture as both personal and planetary, re-drawing the house and its reef context. The installation is part of an ongoing project in expanding the limits of architectural drawing through multi-modal sketch installations.
Old House will be on show at Te Auaha Gallery, 65 Dixon Street, Wellington from 07–27 July, 2023.
Exhibition open
Monday–Friday 8:30am – 6pm
Weekends 10am – 3pm
The exhibition will be closed on Friday 14 July for the Matariki public holiday.
Twose will also be giving a talk on ‘expanded drawing’ as part of the City Talks series at the City Gallery on Monday 16 October at 6pm. The talk will present a series of recent architectural drawing projects, which are part of Twose’s ongoing work exploring intangible conditions within phenomena through open sketches. The work looks to create situations where architecture is sketched through multiple gestures, mixing such things as oceanic immensity and seismic latency with minute adjustments of a line sketched in space.
