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Pioneer Highway; new paintings by Tim Croucher
No full textThe stretch from the Square, down Pioneer Highway, past Jackeytown Road, Karere Lagoon and out to Foxton, measured the centre of my early childhood. As I grew, my area expanded to include Shannon, Feilding, the Whirokino Trestle and river bank, the Pohongina Valley, and up to the Desert Road and Taupo. And, of course, to Wellington.
Between the late 1800s and 1940s, flax milling was a big industry in much of the area around Tiakitahuna. A substantial flax mill was located at the Opiki Bridge. We’d often drive across its creaking boards… it’s still a fascinating place to visit because of the spectre of its towers and the ragged wires that invite climbing.
Flax growing and milling altered the swampy landscape, enflamed tensions between Māori and colonials, encouraged the formation of trade unions, and polluted the Manawatū River.
Visiting Manawatū and Rangitikei now, I like that it’s all shifted and changed to accommodate current needs and amusements. The reminders are still there, but there are carparks, boat ramps, racetracks and ‘light no fires’ signs.
This exhibition comprises a suite of paintings that mingle historical, pastoral, and imaginary situations; it is a tender and playful reflection on a set of unglamorous yet peculiar locations and the identities that link to them
Sketches for Tiakitahuna; works on paper by Tim Croucher
No full textThis small solo exhibition presented developmental works toward the project Pioneer Highway in which autobiographical, historical and fantastic scenes are depicted
After the Heat (2003); and Madison, after the heat #2 (2004)
No full textTwo paintings included in the exhibition, Existence: Life According to Art at the Waikato Museum, curated by Leafa Wilson.
“The ideas of blurring time and place in the work Madison after the heat by Tim Croucher, is a reference to the universality of nature and the play with scale that brings us to the juncture of nature and her ability to chart the direction of human life, to be resilient through an ice age, to regenerate after heat waves and to degenerate at the other end of the journey of life.”
Leafa Wilson, from ‘Existence: Life According to Art’, exhibition catalogue, p25
Boon street art festival 2017
No full textPublic Artwork contributed to Boon Street Art Festival, Hamilton NZ in 2017. In collaboration with artist Tracy Croucher. together working as Tn
Pioneer Highway; new paintings by Tim Croucher. Solo exhibition Zeus Gallery, Tauranga. March 24 - April 13 2017
No full textZeus Gallery of Tauranga presents this exhibition in a different setting from its original in Palmerston North. Travelling across Waikato, Hauraki, Coromandel and Bay of Plenty, the scenes and imagery unfold in similar ways as they do for me in Manawatu. There’s more of the idyllic and affluent, but the same kind of histories and adaptations appear.
Pioneer Highway comprises a suite of paintings that mingle historical, pastoral, and imaginary situations; it is a tender and playful reflection on a set of unglamorous yet peculiar locations and the identities that link to them
Somewhere around here. Solo exhibition at RAMP gallery Hamilton, 2019
No full textRecent works by Tim Croucher and accompanying accumulated works.
This exhibition is one I’ve been wanting to do for a while: to assemble a group of work made by friends and other artists whose work I admire or draw influence from and put it as a kind of preface to a group of current works of my own. I am affectionate and grateful to each of the works in this peculiar collection. Somehow, they represent aspects of my attitude and activities in painting; The gestural or painterly derivation from (photographic) observed or lived experience; the montage of melodramatic with everyday, the mythic with the familiar.
The absurdity of my longing for the idyllic or pristine while also my amusement in the disturbance of intrigue, transgressive play, disquieting mystery. I’ve found this kind of curious simultaneous contradiction in my journeys around Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) and the Waikato region. Despite all its agrarian character and reputation for the uncouth, it has a sultry beauty that I’ve grown to love
Pioneer Highway: new paintings by Tim Croucher. Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North. 18 July to 1 November 2015
No full textThe stretch from the Square, down Pioneer Highway, past Jackeytown Road, Karere Lagoon and out to Foxton, measured the centre of my early childhood. As I grew, my area expanded to include Shannon, Feilding, the Whirokino Trestle and river bank, the Pohongina Valley, and up to the Desert Road and Taupo. And, of course, to Wellington.
Between the late 1800s and 1940s, flax milling was a big industry in much of the area around Tiakitahuna. A substantial flax mill was located at the Opiki Bridge. We’d often drive across its creaking boards… it’s still a fascinating place to visit because of the spectre of its towers and the ragged wires that invite climbing.
Flax growing and milling altered the swampy landscape, enflamed tensions between Māori and colonials, encouraged the formation of trade unions, and polluted the Manawatū River.
Visiting Manawatū and Rangitikei now, I like that it’s all shifted and changed to accommodate current needs and amusements. The reminders are still there, but there are carparks, boat ramps, racetracks and ‘light no fires’ signs.
This exhibition comprises a suite of paintings that mingle historical, pastoral, and imaginary situations; it is a tender and playful reflection on a set of unglamorous yet peculiar locations and the identities that link to them
Do dolphins benefit from nonlinear mathematics when processing their sonar returns?
No full textAn interview with author Tim Leighton about the paper
Opportunities for linking young surveyors across professional surveying member organisations and FIG
No full textTim Di Muzio on 'Sabotage'
No full textIn a series of essays published in 2013 and 2014 on capitaspower.com, political economist Tim Di Muzio explored the concept of ‘sabotage’ as it applies to capitalist power. I recently rediscovered these essays and was so impressed by them that I have reposted them here as a single piece.
About the author: Tim Di Muzio is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of numerous books, including Debt as power, Carbon capitalism, and The 1% and the Rest of us
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