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Certain Measures, 1993, the European Art Schools Exhibition,
MECC, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
In the sculpture, Certain Measures, which is a large bar-height table with some sticks scattered on it, I was responding to the general suspicion of ´ethics´ in the Netherlands.
Religion, in my view, gets a hard time because of this.
I believe we need ethical laws in order to function while it is each individual´s responsibility to work out how to apply these to their own lives. These are ´tools´ for the spirit.
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Certain Measures, 2000,
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui / Whanganui, New Zealand / Aotearoa. | Certain Measures, 2000,
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Certain Measures, 2000. Sarjeant Gallery,
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Certain Measures, 2002, Four sticks with gold-coloured texts in Romanian burned into the wood. Each stick is 1500 cm long. Collection of the Museé d'art compare, Singeorz-Bai, Romania. |
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"Certain Measures" bears texts from the "Hidden Words" a book of wisdom sayings by Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. The texts are engraved along the sides of four wooden rods and the intention is that you need to hold or move the rods in order to read all texts. I have made these rods - I call them 'tools for the spirit' - in English and in Dutch and now in Romanian. I made the Romanian rods twice as large, partly because I had to engrave these texts by hand, and partly to give them a larger-than-life feel in an outdoor-in-nature setting.  Click to view a detail  Click to view a detail |
Certain Measures, 2002.
Other views in the Singeorz-Bai Public Park, Romania. |
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| 2008 | Threads of the Day Leids Wevershuis, Leiden Museum of Weaving, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2004 | Oceania, Terpkerk, Urmond Terp Church (now used as an art gallery), Urmond, The Netherlands. |
| 2002 | Romanian version made for the Singeorz-Bai International Sculpture Symposium, Romania |
| 2002 | As part of the Colonising Oxford project, Oxford, U.K. |
| 2003 | CBK (Centre of Contemporary Art) Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2000-1 | Keep Off the Grass, a show that toured over a period of 6 months in New Zealand: Te Wa, Wanganui; Blue Pacific Gallery at the Pataka Museum, Porirua; Artspace Gallery, Palmerston North, Aotearoa | New Zealand |
| 2000 | Korero, Korero, The Sarjeant Gallery | Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui, Wanganui, Aotearoa | New Zealand |
| 1999 | Diversity, Galleria Halvare, Oulu, Finland |
| 1999 | Word, Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London, U.K. |
| 1995 | Sonja's Choice, Kunstcentrum, Sittard |
| 1993 | European Art Schools Biennale, MECC, Maastricht, The Netherlands |
