ginger - an installation by the underwater collective

22 october 2009 - 7 March 2010

Photo Credit: image courtesy of The Underwater Collective

The Underwater Collective is an active group of artists in the Waikato who make collaborative paintings and object-based installations. They are Glen Leslie, Alister Selliman, Jared Benwell and Marama Mayrick but they  also co-opt guest artists for various projects.

While it would be easy to predict the outcome of most artists' works, one can never be certain of the extraordinary outcomes of their collaborative work. Ginger will be no exception. Their imagery comes from a plethora of sources which would seem out of the normal frequency of most people's radars.

Paul Judge, Moving Image Lecturer at Wintec's Faculty of Media Arts wrote a superb essay for their recent exhibition and residency,  MOUNTAIN which showed at Ramp Gallery, Hamilton.

He writes  "Within the proliferation of visual culture nothing is beyond use, everything is a reference. The breakdown of high and low culture is a precondition for these artists, as is the preparedness to plunder from all and everything."

Welcome to The Underwater, and their Underwater world.