COLLECTED FICTIONS

curated by kim paton and gareth williams

20 july - 11 November 2011

invited artists:mike heynes / peter trevelyan / lynda wilson / tim larkin / andrea du chatenier / lauren winstone / martin poppelwell / regan gentry / gregor kregar / joe sheehan / nick browne / ben pearce

structure designed by kim paton / Constructed by Calvera Specialist Construction Services

Curse by Ben Pearce, image credit: Peter Tang 2009	Gallery elevations for stucture housing COLLECTED FICTIONS designed by Kim Paton	Collected Fictions 2011

What looks like it could be a pie-cart or a tiny sea-side bach (crib) is actually a small gallery space. You need to enter it to see the miniature art works made by some very notable New Zealand artists.
Almost directly beneath this collection of art works, embedded into the Ngati Wairere earth, are the actual museum collections stores which have limited access.

By giving you access to view this fictional collection, the curators wanted you to imagine what it might be like to enter in to the subterranean collections that have been amassed in the city since the 1930s.  Similarly to the art works by artists housed below the artists for Collected Fictions are telling their own stories whether they be truth, myth, legend or lie.

Leafa Wilson
Concept Leader & Curator Visual Arts
Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

A project by Wintec School of Media Arts with assistance from the Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato