HEATHER & IVAN

Images courtesy of the artists and Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art

For this exhibition Heather and Ivan Morison are producing and mailing a printed card to 1,000 residents of San Francisco and Stoke on Trent,  for  Printed Cards recent cards have related to other peoples activities, and the artists own concerns with the natural world, as they travel slowly from place to place. They will also be exhibiting a series of prints, from the Study for Earthwalker series; photographs of Caribou, Wolves and Monkeys onto which the artists draw architectural-like structures, referring to geometry, kites, fungi growth or extra-terrestrial invasion. Like purposeful doodles, the drawings imbue the images with humour, fantasy or threat. Also in the corner of the gallery are bundles of newspapers, inside the paper is an ambiguous text announcement within the public notice section of the classifieds.

For the publication Heather and Ivan offer three short stories, First Avenue, California and Norway, and an image from a recent piece in which a displacement of our everyday detritus blocks off a street in Wellington to illicit revolutionary connotations.

Study for Earthwalker (Caribou), Lambda print, 42 x 42cm, 2006 (Top)

Mr & Mrs Ivan Morison do not understand it. Why are they cutting down all the Siberian Larches? Arkhangelsk, Russia (bottom)

Edition of 1000 printed and mailed cards, 2003

MORISON