Location: Main Gallery  - Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Cost: No bookings required - free

Join us in conversation with artist duo EDWARDS + JOHANN to learn more about their collaborative practice and their exhibition at Whakatāne’s Museum and Galleries from The Edge Of Spaces.

Edwards and Johann’s collaborative work interweaves drawing, painting, performative activities, video and installation with photography. A connecting thread in their visual storytelling is the use of the obsessive line drawing over an existing object as motif for the tensions and dichotomies inherent in life. The gradual process of drawing, part of the work’s becoming is a probing and mapping of new territory. Drawing acts like an obsessive caress on the photographic surface, finding form and meaning. Their images seem both inherently stable yet also subject to temporality. They present a ground in which sensitivities and questions of existence can be played out.

Utilising a range of media and methods in their work, their collaborative approach is a process based research lab. Sole authorship becomes obsolete in the process of making new work and in any of their projects/exhibitions.

Artists and collaborators Edwards + Johann have been working together since 2007.

This gallery talk supports from the EDGE of SPACES and Only Ghosts Glow in the Dark, new exhibitions by EDWARDS + JOHANN on show at Te Kōputu until 28 June.