Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Andy Leleisi'uao Wins McCahon Residency
The McCahon House Trust is pleased to announce Andy Leleisi'uao,
Martin Basher and Jim Spears as the 2010 artists in residence at
the McCahon House Residency Programme in Titiranigi. The
McCahon House residency aims to give artists an opportunity to
develop their work through a supportive programme while living in
the environment that impacted so profoundly on the work of
Colin McCahon.
Andy currently based in Christchurch, takes up the residency in
July 2010. Recently returned to Aotearoa from a successful
solo exhibition at Kips Gallery, Chelsea, New York. Andy is
looking forward to his three month residency as a time to
contextualise and clarify his current practice. Love,
acceptance and abandonment are the themes Andy intends to explore,
creating a series of creatures and imagery to develop a signature
body of work. Andy is the first Pacific artist to be awarded
this opportunity.
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