TERESA HR LANE
Teresa HR Lane, collage artist. Aspires to present a visual equality by disrupting our comfortable gaze. Motivated by the immediate, the sublime and an abundant collection of carefully selected printed matter, Lane confounds our expectations of the figurative and landscape by dismembering and reassembling with an intricate photographic mixed media collage practice, ‘painting with paper’, and ‘drawing with scissors’, offering the viewer an alternative vision, interwoven into an ethereal place, imagined but firmly entrenched in reality, heavily peppered with her irreverent humour.
After a long absence from the land where she grew up, Lane has reacquainted herself with the rural, relocating from central Auckland to a small corner of a retired sheep farm in Te Tai Tokerau. Here Lane’s practice has dramatically shifted into a new landscape, inspired by the absent Kauri, the silent birdcall and a land now naked, covered with nothing but livestock.
Finding inspiration through her poignant selection of locally sourced material, with Books on Kauri logging, early farming, native birds identification, the natural world, and Magazines, Art Auction Catalogues, Forest and Bird all
presenting a new set of questions.
Here she continues on from her previous show ‘With Out End’ 2021, with these new works considering her own statement “look what we did to your land” as she begins to examine the state of this visual paradise that is not only physically scared but also seeped in a complex history of misunderstanding and unresolved conflict between Māori and Pākehā. In this body of work, Lanes’ familiar use of the nude morphs with native birds and shifts into this new landscape; questioning her relationship and responsibility to this land, starting with reconstructing a distinctive sense of place, both surreal and absurd collages.
Current Exhibitions
Deeply Sorry Future
13th May - 11th June 2022
Future Exhibitions
Sanderson Contemporary
September 2022
Past Exhibitions
Ringleaders
Northland Artists, Group Show
Megan Dickinson Gallery
December 2021
Without End
Sanderson Gallery, Auckland
8th September - 3rd October 2021
Love In The Time
Sanderson Gallery, Auckland
14 July - 8th August 2019
Oh My, God
Sanderson Gallery, Auckland
30 July - 18th August 2019
A Picture Says 400 Words
Comet Project Space
17th August 2019
Akepiro Indie 500, Auckland Artweek
Studio Art Sale @ Akepiro Studio
19th October 2019
2019 April, Allpress Studio, Auckland
Ive Hidden Your Knickers Under Here (where the boys won't see)
2019 March Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards, Whakatane/Masterton
Raising of The Brazen Snake
2018 April , Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne
Nevermind The Apocalypse
2017 December, MFA, Elam Graduate Show,
How Can I Seduce You
2017 November , Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne
Cockware
2017 October, Blikfang Gallery, Auckland
Gods Becoming Men
2017, October/November Wallace Awards, Auckland
Travelling Show Group Show
2017 March Thievery Studio, Auckland
Same As It Ever Was
2016 October Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
The Intellectual Fashion Show - Group Show
2016 October Window @ International Art Centre for Auckland Artweek, Auckland
B(v) = (n-1/1)v The theorem of how to harness auction fever
2016 May Woo Space - Beijing China
Group Show
2016 February Allpress Studio - Auckland
You Really Had To BeThere – solo show
2016 February Paul Nache Gallery - Gisborne
Graffiti Lounge – Group Show
2015 April Milford Gallery - Dunedin
Men @ Work – solo show
2014 August Milford Gallery - Dunedin
New Artists – group show
2014 July Allpress Gallery - Auckland
The Might of Meekness – solo show
2013 - February Artstation - Auckland,
Behind Closed Door – solo show
Awards
Finalist - National Contemporary Awards 2019
Runner Up Akel Shulte Award - Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards 2019
Finalist - Wallace Awards 2017