Board Art 2009

Mair Gallery, 1st–18th July 2009

‘Board Art’ is an annual event at COCA called , this is its 7th installment. Board Art is a multifaceted exhibition with several intentions and motivations. Physically, it is a project where artists are invited to create an original artwork using a blank skateboard deck as their common object. The board can be treated as a graphic vessel, a wall mountable sculptural object, or a plinth based sculpture/installation.

Participants for this exhibition can be divided in to two categories. The first is an invited selection of contemporary artists, designers and members of the creative community from NZ and abroad - predominantly those with a significant public profile, but also inclusive of emerging and early career designers/illustrators/artists/street artists.

The other category consists of 15 students from intermediate, secondary and tertiary level who are selected from a judged competition. The competition involves students submitting their design/artwork on a paper entry form, which then goes before a judging panel. Winning entrants are gifted a blank skateboard to render their concept onto & they are then included as part of the exhibition.

As an exhibition it is a celebration of the rich visual culture of skateboarding and the skateboard as an object, with the selection of participants bridging the gaps between fine art, low brow art, graphic design and object. One of the greatest achievements of this exhibition/competition is that it provides our younger participants with the kudos of exhibiting along side some of New Zealand’s most well respected artists and gives them the unique experience of taking ownership of the gallery.

A Sarah & Jo Production - 'Peeping Tom'

Purchase price: $500

COCA: centre of contemporary art

Board Art 2009

Mair Gallery, 1st–18th July 2009

Artworks

A Sarah & Jo Production - 'Peeping Tom'

Akilah Hammond - 'Untitled'

Anne-Sophie Adelys - 'Cherry Blossom'

Baylee Neeha - 'Keyboard'

Chandler Hendry - 'R2-D2 & C-3PO'

Chris Jackson - 'Heavy Metal'

Component - 'Can Do'

DRYPNZ - 'Hands Up'

Damien Watson - 'Flower'

Dylan Scott - 'Untitled (FAT CIG #1)'

Dylan Taylor - 'Chairman of the Board'

Eeks - 'Jizz Wizz'

Emilee Pokino - 'Mister Loveless'

Express - 'My First Skate, Circa 78'

Fane Flaws - 'Old School'

Hamish Childs - 'All you see is....crime in the city'

Hannah Salmon - 'Physiognomy'

Iain Cheesman - 'Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang, walla walla, bing bang'

Jack Stanaway - 'Skating By Candle Light'

Jacob 'Yikes' Ryan - 'Trippin' off the beat kinda, drippin' off the meat grinder'

Jo Blogg - 'Run Rabbit Run'

Jo-Nanda Teuber - 'Wife'

Joe Wylie - 'I Like the Nightlife'

Jono Moran - 'Homage to the Concrete Killers'

Juan Angel Chavez - 'Stealing my stepsister's blood to fly at night'

Liam Smith - 'Back Breaking Stuff'

Lizzie Moyle - 'A Cuckoo in the Nest'

Mark 'Sender' Iddles - 'Home of the Brave'

Michelle Ah Kuoi - 'Untitled'

Miller Ruddle - 'Lucky'

Miss Mica Still - 'Introducing one ooh la la moment'

Moni Eckey - 'Donut Disturb'

Monica Moreno - 'Hushhhh, the Goddess is Awakening...'

Nick 'Ikarus' Tam - 'TV in a TV'

Nicole Bourke - 'Rolling Moss'

Olive Russell - 'Al Park'

Peter Fitz - 'I never did get the hang of these things'

Pon Tortenchai - 'Face of Doom'

Reno Jamoody - 'Temporary'

Roger Boyce - 'Ur's the Matter'

Ruby Rose Shingleton - 'Sunshine'

Sam Mitchell - 'All That Glitters Is Not Gold'

Shannon Williamson - 'This Specimen Board'

Sim Kieng - 'Girlfriend'

Stacy La Plant - 'Trophy'

Theo Manji - 'Africa'

Thijs de Koning - 'Battle of the Birds'

Tjalling de Vries - 'Title Apt'

Tony De Lautour - 'Untitled'

Wayne Youle - 'Poppin' pills with Pete while we discuss the importance of Ethnic make up'

Wongi 'Freak DTR' Wilson - 'Artists at Work'

Zach Hart - 'Diamond in the Rough'

Zomby - 'Untitled'