EARTHED

MAREEHORNER
TERESA PETERS

NorthArt April 2023 ~ June 2023

The origins of time and of counting in turn seem to lie somewhere between the cycles of the earth and the moon (with the human body as medium) and the lines of a journey, a life toward change. ~ Lucy Lippard, Overlay


EARTHED (to connect an energy system into the ground) - stems from the earthing of pure electricity in Maree Horner’s seminal work Chair 1973. EARTHED draws together the works of mother and daughter ~ 1970s Post Object forerunner Maree Horner and Teresa Peters ~ award winning contemporary clay/ceramics artist and filmmaker, in a dynamic exhibition that crosses time and territories.

Rupture as the mother of change and regeneration, EARTHED pivots around the 2022 filmic re-visitation of art action, Tideline, 1971. Re-enacted by Maree Horner at the original location 50 years into the future, and archived as film by Teresa Peters.

In the 1970s the expanded field of sculpture headed out into the landscape. In 2023 it traverses a much more porous relationship with the environment. Subterranean, corporal, non-human and virtual realities are included in extensions of space and time. Both artists’ contemporary practices hold uncanny parallels, juxtaposing embodiment with the geomorphic, evoking the erotic, touch meeting trace, debasing the monument while navigating porous boundaries, systems and structures, pivoting between action and the archive.

Both artists call Mount Taranaki home. Prehistoric mollusk fossils called Ammonites are sometimes discovered along Taranaki’s coast. They map 201 million years since the Jurassic and then Cretaceous period. Transforming, breaking down over millennia into fossilised crystals and gasses—triggering volcanic activity. The last eruption of the stratovolcano occurred around 1854, it has erupted 160 times in the last 36,000 years

Geologic Ruminations, 2022 is a new series by Maree Horner. She currently works in graphic body scale multimedia works that are monolithic testaments to the female ~ an innovative fusion of mono-printing and graphic painting. Stemming from Familiar Monuments, 1996 originally shown at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery and in February 2023, in Door, window, world: Maree Horner, J.C. Sturm at Artspace Aotearoa. The archaeology of the ideas can be traced back to her 1970’s sculptural work and drawings.
Recently celebrated as raw clay ‘artefacts’ in the first photograph to win the Portage Ceramic Premier award and nomadic project DISASTROUSFORMS.COM. Teresa Peters fuses contemporary clay/ceramics, photography, digital platforms and public space to explore touch, haptics and the crystalline geomorphic forces of quartz (50% earth’s surface) ~ an activator in ceramics alchemy, volcanic eruptions, digital touch screens and the human third eye/cells via piezoelectricity and sound. She navigates the archive exploring disaster and rupture as the mother of revolution. From corals and fossils to volcanoes to the quartz in your mobile phone ~ breaking new ground.

Maree Horner

is a Taranaki artist currently investigating processes of printmaking, painting and digital imagery. She completed a MFA at Elam in 1974. She was a forerunner in Post Object art movement in New Zealand, celebrated with the exhibition Groundswell: Avant-Garde Auckland 1971-1979 at Auckland Art Gallery in 2018/19 and earlier in Action Replay 1998, at Artspace Aotearoa, the Auckland Art Gallery, and the Govett Brewster Art Gallery. Diving Board 1972, now in the Govett Brewster Art Gallery collection was exhibited as a key work in All Lines Converge 2017/18 and in the canon of Ruth Buchanan’s The scene in which I find myself Or, where does my body belong, 2019/20.

In 2019 Chair, 1973 was recreated and shown at Anderson Rhodes Gallery, Ngāmotu ~ New Plymouth. Her graphic works stem from the archaeology of the ideas that can be traced back to Chair 1973, include Familiar monuments at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery 1996, Monumental obsessions~wallpaper, a Cameo Wall project at Te Tuhi 2006. Chair 1973-2019, was acquired by the Auckland Art Gallery in 2020 and in early 2023 was exhibited alongside Familiar Monuments, 1994-1996, in Ruth Buchanan’s inaugural show Door, window, world, a pairing with J.C.Sturm at Artspace Aotearoa.

mareehorner.co.nz

Teresa Peters

teresapeters.studio

Tideline 2022

Maree Horner ~ Artist

Teresa Peters ~ Director

Rowena Baines ~ Camera

Florian Habicht ~ Editor

Grant Hall ~ Aerial




Soundtrack

Torben Tilly



BLACK MOON QUARTZ
SOUND JOURNEY

Cheryl Farthing



THANK YOU

Govett Brewster Art Gallery Collections