From The Big Idea: Artist Garry Currin's first exhibition in his old hometown of Wanganui is a sea narrative, a storyboard idea about the foundering of the cargo ship 'Port Bowen' which ran aground at Castlecliff Beach on Wanganui's west coast on July 18,1939. The stranded ship remained there for 3 years in which time it was slowly dismantled, much of the material being used for the war effort.
The series, titled Salvage, is a collection of creative responses to aural history; stories told to Currin as a child by both his mother and his grandmother and is a departure from his moody and enigmatic landscapes as he brings more figurative and representational elements into these works. Currin says, "I have worked to capture the sound of those stories. The sirens and the waves, the cold, the fires, the giant on the beach, the watching and the waiting".
W.H. Milbank Gallery, 1 Dec 2012 - 31 Jan 2013
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1 Dec 2012 - 31 Jan 2013
W.H. Milbank Gallery,
1B Bell Street, Wanganui
Bill Milbank (06) 345 9435 or Mob. 027 628 6877
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