Ghost Moth Aidan Howse

Aidan Howse’s exhibition explores the use of the ceramic medium balancing traditional techniques with non-conventional methods. The show is based on a fictitious and pseudo-scientific account of the life cycle of the Ghost Moth.

As a hoaxed construction of an imaginary organism it recalls the fictions of Borge’s, addressing both spiritualistic hoax and evolutionary red herrings. The adoption of an unnatural history of the Ghost Moth produces a quixotic investigation. It documents the parasitic and symbiotic relationship of the moth whilst re-inventing the spiritual ectoplasms of the 19th and 20th centuries. Oh yeah, there are zombies too...
 
Howse is currently an MFA candidate at the Duendin School of Art, where he completed his BFA in Ceramics. He won the Emergent Artist Portage Ceramics Award at the Lopdell House Gallery (Titirangi, Auckland) in 2002 and has had two previous solo shows: Phantom Limb (2005) and The Milk of Human Kindness (2006), at the former Marshal Siefert Gallery.

Presented alongside Jason Secto MODERNLOVE and C. Scott Untitled (Past)