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Joanna Langford
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Joanna Langford
Presents Joanna Langford's first survey exhibtion, showing highlights from the past decade of her creative practice. Shows ten of Langford's sculptural installations, reconstructed for exhibition at Pataka. Creates imaginary landscapes and cityscapes from the simplest of materials such as recycled plastic shopping bags, disposable bamboo skewers and computer keyboards.
Joanna Langford
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Honey in the Rock
A series of installations by 2011 Frances Hodgkins Fellow, Joanna Langford. Langford is renowned for towering architectural forms and intricate, magical landscapes built from recycled materials such as plastic shopping bags and 'found' bric-a-brac. Her recent sculptures, conceived during her term as Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, employ bamboo skewers, painted polystyrene balls and silage wrap, a material which strongly evokes New Zealand's rural landscape and economic dependence on farming. Langford's works often conjure notions of imagined or real journeys and her atmospheric digital video projection 'Baltic Wanderer', shown for the first time in this exhibition, looks like a scene from a snowy fairytale and draws on the artist's visit to the Baltic region.
Cut & Paste
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Big Bend
Tells the story of J.O. Langford, who brought his family to Big Bend in the early 1900's. Photographs.
Storm from the East
The greatest conquest in history Genghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexander’s: his successors went on to conquer and govern an area stretching from Korea to the River Danube. How did a band of nomadic herdsmen achieve so much, so fast? Despite these stunning achievements, many writers dismiss the Mongols as just ferocious barbarians. This bestselling book sets the record straight. The epic starts in 1206 - when Genghis became master of ‘all the people with felt tents’ and an unknown tribe took the first steps towards world domination - and ends with the empire’s decline and fall, after Khubilai Khan’s triumphant unification with China. Robert Marshall describ...
