2. A 'Curator' is a content specialist for a gallery's collection. The curator will often take care of the collections, make the decisions regarding what objects to collect or put up for an exhibition. Also conduct research based on the collection, and share that research with the public and/or scholarly community through exhibitions and publications.
3. Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A.
4. Biennial of Sydney.
5. Nick Austin, Richard Bell, Sharon Hayes, Alex Monteith.
6. Mother's Tankstation, Life Again. Light Again. Leaf Again. Love Again, Garret Phelan.
This exhibition by garret Phelan is drawn from an obscure 19h century text on bird watching. In this exhibition he combines his passion for sound, drawing and bird watching to create the possibility of a mutated bird species into Ireland's environment. The pictographic drawings have both a humorous intent, as well as a serious darker side. Imagine a world where birds are forced to 'evolve' because of humans destructive negligence towards the ecological environment. Although this seems unlikely, it does have an affect on the way we look at nature today.
7. Personally Phelan also creates an 'absence' of the sound and sight of birds in nature to enter my mind, I find it hard to picture native birds of New Zealand being forced to evolve and mutate in order to adapt to a change in the ecological environment caused by fellow negligent 'Kiwis'. In creating this 'absence' Phelen forces us to look at the potentially horrible effect that human negligence towards nature can largely or rather will largely have on the greater population of birds in all countries of the world. maybe not to the extreme point of mutation but the thought is drilled into our minds and conscience. The automated (evidently false) love of nature installed in all New Zealander's from birth is challenged, as we are forced to look at our blatant carelessness towards the thing we as 'kiwis' all hold precious in our selves, our countries image.
