Swirling Dream-Wreck Fu-On Chung and Sam Thomas

Artist talk: Wednesday 2 August, 12pm

Swirling Dream-Wreck is the second iteration of an ongoing collaboration between Auckland-based painters, Fu-On Chung and Sam Thomas. The first collaborative exhibition, Nets (GLOVEBOX, October 2016), saw the artists focus on tennis—their contrasting practices, abstraction and figuration, each describing different angles on the game.

In Swirling Dream-Wreck Chung and Thomas look at the concept of fantasy with equally diverse approaches, using their shared medium of painting to expand and evolve elements of a shared unknown. Accompanying the exhibition will be a text by Francis McWhannell, available in gallery as well as online from Wednesday 2 August.

Fu-On Chung (1991) is a painter and founding member of GLOVEBOX. Recent exhibitions include:Hoardings of Fury with Philippa Emery, Play_station, Wellington (2017); Nets with Sam Thomas, GLOVEBOX, Auckland, (2016); Painting: A Transitive Space, curated by Simon McIntyre, ST PAUL St Gallery Three, Auckland (2016); Drawing Rehearsals, Two Rooms, Auckland (2016).

Sam Thomas (1989) is a painter based between Auckland and Rarotonga. Thomas is a founding member of Snake Pit (2011) and Mirage (2016). Recent exhibitions include: Nets with Fu-On Chung, GLOVEBOX (2016); Porgies with James Wylie, curated by Karl Bayly, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton (2016);Sacred Economies, curated by Balamohan Shingade, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick (2016); You know more than I know with Denys Watkins, Bath St Gallery, Parnell (2016).

 Click here to download room sheet

Click here to read accompanying text, What lies beneath by Francis McWhannell