Free event
Saturday, October 4 • 2 - 3PM
In Conversation:
Gregor Kregar & Sue Gardiner
This event is part of the public programme for Gregor Kregar: Paradox Void.
Gregor Kregar
Operating in a wide range of materials, scales and forms, Gregor Kregar has forged a reputation as one of New Zealand’s leading contemporary sculptors. Born in Slovenia in 1972, Kregar exhibits regularly throughout Australasia and Europe.
Kregar works with an extensive range of media, from stainless and cor-ten steel, glazed porcelain, and cast glass through to bronze and fiberglass. He states, “my work is not confined to any single medium or material. In my sculptural practice I often combine a wide variety of materials such as stainless steel, plastic, cardboard, ceramic, glass, video and photography.” Kregar’s skill in managing this wide range of materials is mirrored in the diversity of his subject matter. Abstract geometries are as much a part of his repertoire as figures of sheep, humans and gnomes. “I am interested in how the familiar subject can be represented in a way that displaces the original meaning and imbues the subject with new and unfamiliar meanings,” he says.
- Gow Langsford
Sue Gardiner
Sue Gardiner (MNZM)is the Chair of the Chartwell Charitable Trust, an Aotearoa New Zealand philanthropic trust dedicated to deepening the understanding of the visual arts and the creative process. She is also co-Director of the Chartwell Collection, established in 1974, as a major public collection of contemporary art held on long-term loan at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She is also co-Director of Squiggla, an educational programme that exercises free flow mark making in order to test key creative visual thinking processes. Alongside the Chartwell programme of projects, Sue has had an active art writing career in New Zealand and Australia and has been a trustee of a number of arts organisations.