Irreplaceable - Kristin O'sullivan Peren
30 Sandringham St, Dunedin, Otago
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Kristin O'Sullivan Peren is a multi-media artist whose practice responds to the extremities of land, language and object. Her work comes from a history as a print-maker, visible by a clear and developed methodology derived from materials and process. Recent large-scale projects extend within photographic, sculptural and electronic fields using both digital and analogue technologies.
O'Sullivan Peren exhibits locally and internationally in public spaces, contemporary project galleries and at worldwide artist residency communities. Recent large-scale exhibitions have integrated a unique process pioneered by her, using LED lighting and cast resin.
O’Sullivan Peren’s work is a search for the modern sublime through technology, a longstanding contemporary response to climate change and ecological concerns and identity in Aotearoa. Throughout the 1980-90s, she printed prodigiously, establishing her signature gestural mark in series such as Islands (1995) and The Irish (1996). While her work has extended into new fields, printmaking has continued to have a place in her practice.
Introducing O’Sullivan Peren to Fe29, Irreplaceable is an exhibition of prints from 1991-2011. In these she explores the rapid acceleration of climate change and its impacts both by and on humans. Early works from her iconic series The Irish (1996), highlight specific impacts (landgrabs, burning natural resources and ultimately destruction of human life), while selected monoprints from a later series, Emergence (2011) expands on her message – “the environment is not simply a source to nourish and sustain cultures and communities, but an irreplaceable body of land, light and water.”
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