Art hoists at JAR

Over the past few months we have been running images of Leigh Davis' Flag Poems in the exhibition Time Text & Echoes. The works are being exhibited at JAR in a series of thirty, ten-day hoists.

JAR exhibitions are presented in a small, single-room building at 589 New North Road, Kingsland. The front of the building has been removed and replaced by a transparent wall, allowing exhibitions to be viewed from the street. Before embarking on the current exhibition, JAR staged projects by Auckland-based artists Stephen Bambury and Peter Robinson.

This link takes you to the JAR website. And click here to see our previous flag posts

Image: Jar, New North Road, Kingsland, NZ

Leigh Davis Flag Poems in Time, Text & Echoes

Images (top to bottom): Leigh Davis, Madonna of Gowns, Do Not Construct,  Space of Mouthing, flag poems presented in the JAR exhibition Time, Text & Echoes (2010-2011), a sequence of ten-day hoists over 300 days, New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland, NZ

Leigh Davis Flag Poem at JAR

Image: Leigh Davis, A Suspension Bridge, flag poem, presented in the JAR exhibition Time, Text & Echoes (2010-2011) New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland, NZ

Leigh Davis flag poems at JAR

Image: Leigh Davis, Mouthing of Space, flag poem presented in the JAR exhibition Time, Text & Echoes (2010 - 2011), New North Road, Kingsland, NZ. 

Leigh Davis flag poems at JAR

The images above are of Leigh Davis flag poems presented in the JAR exhibition Time, Text & Echoes, a 300-day project of 30 poem flags presented one at a time in a sequence of ten-day hoists. The exhibition runs to March 2011. 

Images: Leigh Davis flag poems presented in the JAR exhibition Time, Text & Echoes (2010 - 2011), New North Road, Kingsland, NZ. From the top: Hau (red), Macoute, Temptation of the World, all works dyed polyester knit appliqued onto dyed woven bunting, with canvas head, sisal halyard and brass clips, 1.5 x 3.5 m

JAR presents a 300-day exhibition of Leigh Davis flag poems

Jar is a small not-for-profit trust for promoting strong, singular work for public consumption. The first Jar space is 589 New North Road, Kingsland, NZ where projects have been staged by Auckland-based artists Stephen Bambury and Peter Robinson.

Jar is currently presenting a sequence of thirty exhibitions, entitled Time, Text & Echoes, each devoted to a single Leigh Davis flag poem. All but the last of the flags to be shown at Jar were previously exhibited as single installations under the title Station of Earth-Bound Ghosts in the Auckland Railway Station (1998) and the Gisborne Army Hall (1999). Both were contextualised in Te Tangi a te Matuhi, Jackbooks 1999, edited by Davis and Wystan Curnow.

You can read more about the current Jar exhibition here.

Image: Jar, New North Road, Kingsland, NZ