Fiona Jack Launches – ‘Everything’ - At ‘The Lightship

Fiona Jack Launches New Work – ‘Everything’ - At ‘The Lightship’
9 February – 30 March 2022

Twenty-five years since NothingTM, Fiona Jack has launched her latest work – Everything - at The Lightship, the Ports of Auckland’s contemporary art site located at Bledisloe Wharf and will be on display to the public from 9 February – 30 March 2022.

Fiona Jack's first major public artwork NothingTM (1997) was brought to the public’s attention through a campaign of 33 billboards across Auckland City.

To promote NothingTM Jack satirically replicated advertising language in a series of billboards: “Nothing — for the person with everything”. So realistic in its codes and scale, the campaign prompted enquiries as to where to purchase NothingTM - artwork turned advertisement, advertisement turned artwork.

Everything at The Lightship references the 1997 campaign in its typography and imagery, but instead of many ‘nothings’ throughout the city, she offers one ‘everything’ and reflects on global change in 25 years.

The Lightship is a 110-metre-long, 13-metre-high light wall that Ports of Auckland built into the western façade of their new car handling building and can be viewed from Quay Street, city wharves, local buildings and the water.

Auckland’s newest home of art stages a commissioned programme of work by contemporary emerging artists, currently curated by Bridget Riggir-Cuddy.

What: Everything by Fiona Jack at The Lightship
When: Nightly, 9 February – 30 March 2022
Where: The Lightship, Bledisloe Wharf, Ports of Auckland, Quay Street