Alice Belinda Grace Curran

In the West Side space: Wellington based Belinda Grace Curran presents Alice, a dauntingly engineered kinetic work that literally grinds bones. In the form of a generic insect the associations are those of mass culture and dehumanisation. It cycles endlessly producing identical pellets of bone, hinting at patterns of conformity and powerlessness. Alice is strangely appealing and vulnerable, as Curran seems aware of her by choice of name. Alice is about the individual's lack of power to affect the mass human psyche, and asks if society is formed by the patterns of the individual, where does the onus for change lie? With a strong background in industrial tool making, machining and structural welding, this artist brings her interest in the tools that make the tools to this project.

Presented alongside Ian Cheesman Contact