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IRIS EICHENBERG
Candles & Sticks
Untitled
, 2022
Candle holder, Edition of 3
Copper, oxidised
90 x 550 x 70mm
$980 | ENQUIRE
2 / 40
ISOBEL THOM
Candles & Sticks
Candleholder
2023
Glazed stoneware
120 x 170 x 180mm
$1100 | SOLD
3 / 40
MARCOS GUZMAN
Candles & Sticks
Good Night Dear Shapes
2022
Acrylic
265 x 190 x 190mm
+ 57 x 107 x 90mm
$900 (set) | ENQUIRE
4 / 40
WARWICK FREEMAN
Candles & Sticks
Handle Candle Holder
2016
Lava, tin, paint
155 x 160 x 180mm
$5,000 | ENQUIRE
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MAIA MCDONALD
Candles & Sticks
Wahine wahine wahine
2021
Buff Raku Trachyte clay
400 x 100 x 100mm
$3,250 | ENQUIRE
6 / 40
MAIA MCDONALD
Candles & Sticks
Kōwhaiwhai III
2021
Scarva clay, spray paint
150 x 200 x 320mm
$2,250 | ENQUIRE
7 / 40
MAIA MCDONALD
Candles & Sticks
Hauhake II
2021
Wood-fired Driving Creek clay, spray paint
260 x 255 x 35mm
$1,250 | SOLD
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MAIA MCDONALD
Candles & Sticks
Platter for aunty
2021
Wood-fired Driving Creek clay, spray paint
50 x 300 x 430mm
$2,250 | ENQUIRE
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MAIA MCDONALD
Candles & Sticks
Installation view
$1250-3250 | ENQUIRE
10 / 40
TRACY KEITH
Candles & Sticks
Lava flow vessel
2022
Raku fired ceramic
160 x 130mm
$1900 | SOLD
11 / 40
TRACY KEITH
Candles & Sticks
The skin of Papatūānuku
2022
Raku fired ceramic
195 x 260mm
$2000 | ENQUIRE
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TRACY KEITH
Candles & Sticks
The skin of Papatūānuku
2022
Raku fired ceramic
195 x 260mm
$2000 | ENQUIRE
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TRACY KEITH
Candles & Sticks
Earth cloak
2019
Raku fired ceramic
175 x 270mm
$1800 | ENQUIRE
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TRACY KEITH
Candles & Sticks
Midnight vessel
2022
Raku fired ceramic
200 x 290mm
$2200 | SOLD
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TRACY KEITH
Candles & Sticks
Twilight vessel
2022
Raku fired ceramic
200 x 300mm
$2000 | SOLD
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AARON BEEHRE
Candles & Sticks
Ilarion
2023
ACM (Aluminium Composite Material)
470 x 430 x 30mm incl shelf.
Edition of 3
$790 | ENQUIRE
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BENJAMIN LIGNEL
Candles & Sticks
Ici j’étudie / Là je tremble (pour Gaston Bachelard)
2023
Unglazed porcelain, steel, candles
300 x 290 x 40mm (x 2)
$POA | SOLD
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BENJAMIN LIGNEL
Candles & Sticks
Ici j’étudie / Là je tremble (pour Gaston Bachelard)
2023
Unglazed porcelain, steel, candles
300 x 290 x 40mm (x 2)
$POA | SOLD
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JEN ALEXANDRA
Candles & Sticks
I Burn for you
2023
Bronze
From 25 – 60mm
$125-170 each | ENQUIRE
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JEN ALEXANDRA
Candles & Sticks
I Burn for you
2023
Bronze
From 25 – 60mm
$125-170 each | ENQUIRE
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WAYNE YOULE
Candles & Sticks
Totem
2023
Cast bronze, carved wood
1lb cast iron weight
220 x 75 x 75mm
$1650 | SOLD
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WAYNE YOULE
Candles & Sticks
Progress (the price of…)
2023
Cast bronze, railway iron
265 x 120 x 60mm
$1800 | SOLD
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CAT FOOKS
Candles & Sticks
Snickerdoodle
2023
Mixed media, enamel paint
520 x 140 x 150mm
$POA | ENQUIRE
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CAT FOOKS
Candles & Sticks
Pencil Tree
2023
Mixed media, enamel paint
395 x 265 x 110mm
$POA | ENQUIRE
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CAT FOOKS
Candles & Sticks
Pencil Tree
2023
Mixed media, enamel paint
395 x 265 x 110mm
$POA | ENQUIRE
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CAT FOOKS
Candles & Sticks
Jingle Shell
2023
Mixed media, enamel paint
310 x 110 x 110mm
$POA | ENQUIRE
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CAT FOOKS
Candles & Sticks
Bog Bean
2023
Mixed media, enamel paint
365 x 110 x 200mm
$POA | ENQUIRE
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GAVIN HIPKINS
Candles & Sticks
Blue Strips (12)
2023
12 unique cyanotype prints
1200 x 1000mm total size
$14500 | ENQUIRE
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STEVE CARR
Candles & Sticks
Cigarette Tree
2007
3 min 52 sec
Single channel / Silent
Edition 3/3
$7500 | ENQUIRE
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JACQUELYN GREENBANK
Candles & Sticks
Bon Rappetit with cucumber
Candle holder, 2023
Enamel painted bronze, faux carved wood incense
80 x 60 x 120mm
$600 | ENQUIRE
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JACQUELYN GREENBANK
Candles & Sticks
Bon Rappetit
Incense holder
, 2023
Enamel painted bronze, faux carved wood incense
80 x 50 x 100mm
$500 | SOLD
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JACQUELYN GREENBANK
Candles & Sticks
Mandy
Candle holder
, 2023
Enamel painted bronze
65 x 65 x 50mm
$250 | SOLD
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JACQUELYN GREENBANK
Candles & Sticks
Cucumber Slice, Slice, Slice
Incense holder
, 2023
Enamel painted bronze, faux carved wood incense
70 x 20 x 20mm
$165 | SOLD
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JACQUELYN GREENBANK
Candles & Sticks
Weetie
Incense holder
, 2023
Enamel painted bronze, faux carved wood incense
15 x 40 x 80mm
$300 | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Candles & Sticks
$POA | ENQUIRE
36 / 40
Installation view
Candles & Sticks
$POA | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Candles & Sticks
$POA | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Candles & Sticks
$POA | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Candles & Sticks
$POA | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Candles & Sticks
$POA | ENQUIRE
Candles & Sticks
Ōtautahi
26 Jul – 19 Aug 2023
Allona Goren, Marcos Guzman, Iris Eichenberg, Tracy Keith, Meredith Turnbull, Manon van Kouswijk, Benjamin Lignel, Steve Carr, Isobel Thom, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Cat Fooks, Sung Hwan Bobby Park, Warwick Freeman, Jen Alexandra, Gavin Hipkins, Maia McDonald, Kate Fitzharris, Wayne Youle & Aaron Beehre
Candles & Sticks is a multidisciplinary exhibition project that brings together the work of 19 artists, designers and other makers from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, France, and USA. The first iteration of this project was presented in Melbourne in 2022, curated by Manon van Kouswijk (Melbourne based artist/educator) and Sassy Park, and realised with artist Allona Goren.
This new exhibition, curated for The National by Caroline Billing and Manon van Kouswijk, includes work by seven artists from the original Melbourne 2022 exhibition, and we are excited to include work in the Ōtautahi iteration from twelve new makers
Candles & Sticks presents a range of works that reinterpret and/or reflect on the candlestick as an object that holds, supports or frames a candle, or on the ritual of burning candles. Artists’ responses could be object or image based, autonomous or functional, sculptural, durational, with scope for diverse approaches and interpretations of this subject and matter.
“Sculpturally, the candlestick can be thought of as a composition made up of a base, a foreground and background, vertical and horizontal, light and shadow. Beside the formal and material possibilities at play in this object, the burning of candles is ritual and symbolic, celebratory and commemorative and can be found in the public as well as the private realm.
We were curious to see how artists/designers/ceramicists and other makers might rethink / rework / remake this object as it has so much sculptural and poetic potential that goes beyond it being merely a functional object. There is drama and transformation in the melting of wax, the flickering of flames and the throwing of shadows”. Manon van Kouswijk, 2022
> View online catalogue for Candles & Sticks