Author Description

Product Description Simon Denny's practice emphasizes relationships within communities of things; complex sculptural combinations of objects and images found, bought, gathered and made. Denny's approach is holistic, seeking and building upon analogous connections between the various formal and conceptual aspects of his work. Typically, Denny's installations are formed from predetermined fragments then assembled within a given space, which to a significant extent determines the final form and content of the work. The finished work is thus more accurately described as the formal resolution of Denny's working process, of sensing and facilitating interconnections between composite elements and the ideas they can contribute to a larger project. Denny presents his audiences with situations that tend to foreground an engagement with associations of form, purpose and action. Constructions of everyday materials are combined with and are often comprised of - domestic ready-mades and found imagery. His apparent crude modesty of form belies the poetic intelligence of the works coming-to-be and sculptural conceits. Denny's art-making is rooted in consumption and presentation; considerations of performance and moments of recapitulation which embed the artist s activity in his material objects and images chosen in the first instance for the character and activity they already inhabit. Denny has had an active interest in artist-run initiatives in Auckland including Special Gallery (2003-2006) and as a founding member of Gambia Castle (2007 - ). Simon Denny currently lives and works in Auckland and Frankfurt am Main. Exhibition Catalogue, Co-Published by Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Michael Lett Publishing, 2007. Cloth-bound oversize slipcase with gold foil blocking on cover and spine, containing found circular, and exhibition catalogue: 8 pages, lightweight gloss stock, folded, unstitched. 89 monochrome illustrations. Essay by Jim Barr and Mary Barr. Text and additi