Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts presents the first survey exhibition of Wairarapa-based sculptor and painter Brendon Wilkinson. The exhibition titled Hexon Cusp. Decade showcases the largest quantity of Wilkinson’s sculptures assembled to date.

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts presents the first survey exhibition of Wairarapa-based sculptor and painter Brendon Wilkinson. The exhibition titled Hexon Cusp. Decade showcases the largest quantity of Wilkinson’s sculptures assembled to date.

Earlier this year the show was held at Arotoi: The Wairarapa Museum of Art and History but Te Tuhi has ambitiously expanded the quantity of works to present a major survey exhibition.

Wilkinson first established his career in Auckland and become known for his meticulously detailed architectural models, which as Te Tuhi’s Curator Stephen Cleland describes, frequently depict ‘dead zones’ – derelict areas which are staged in the aftermath of an incident, for example in his sculpture Pile of Illusions, a miniature scaled solitary figure lies motionless on the side of a pool.

Te Tuhi’s Director James McCarthy also notes that there is an element of humor which wouldn’t be found in an architect’s model, ‘figures on the edge of a model inadvertently get sliced in half. The detailing is immaculate, right down to miniaturized graffiti, a smashed window and a splash in a puddle”.

The exhibition also includes recent figurative paintings. Each work melds science fiction with dream-based imagery which probe the viewers imagination.

As Wilkinson states: ‘I’m interested in depicting scenarios which invite the viewer to create their own stories. My works are an open invitation to fill the gaps of a narrative only partially given.’

Hexon Cusp. Decade.
Brendon Wilkinson
10 July – 22 August