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F7155: Night sky plunge
2024
Acrylic, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
1130 x 1100mm
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F7155: Night sky plunge
Detail
Acrylic, canvas, cotton rope,
aluminium rod
1130 x 1100mm
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F1311: Wet glass sky
2024
Acrylic, oil stick, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
775 x 775mm
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F1311: Wet glass sky
Detail
Acrylic, oil stick, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
775 x 775mm
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FS1113: Wet desert dot
2024
Acrylic, oil stick, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
780 x 770mm
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F1214: West coast set
2024
Acrylic, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
780 x 770mm
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F2386: St Bathans Blue
2024
Acrylic, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
775 x 775mm
$4800 | SOLD
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F2057: Blue ribbon view
2024
Acrylic, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
780 x 770mm
$4800 | ENQUIRE
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Pullbuoy 1
2024
Acrylic, oil pastel, canvas, woollen rope
415 x 415mm
$1800 | ENQUIRE
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Pullbuoy 2
2024
Acrylic, oil pastel, canvas, woollen rope
415 x 415mm
$1800 | ENQUIRE
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F1312: Chrome gold sun
2024
Acrylic, oil stick, canvas, cotton rope, aluminium rod
680 x 670mm
$4000 | ENQUIRE
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F3166: Heath side scene
2024
Acrylic, oil stick, canvas,
cotton rope, aluminium rod
580 x 570mm
$4000 | ENQUIRE
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F3166: Heath side scene
Detail
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Mesh study 1
2024
Acrylic, canvas, mesh
400 x 500mm
$1200 | SOLD
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Install view
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Install view
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Laps, pullbuoys and plunge pools
Emma Fitts
15 May – 15 Jun 2024
In this series of work, Emma Fitts explores the architecture and sensory experience of swimming pools, alongside the history of pools as queer spaces. Various techniques of saturation, scribbling and splashing of paint, in conversation with rope, cellophane, mesh and chrome rods come together in a high energy exhibition.
Emma Fitts’ practice spans painting, photography and sculpture. Recurrent themes in her works include queer art histories, Modernist textiles and architectures, and the idea of biography, with a particular emphasis on emotion and affect. Fitts studied at the University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi, and completed an MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Recent solo exhibitions include Petal, Melanie Roger Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2023; Lapping at your door, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2022-23; In The Rough: Parts 1, 2 & 3, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Titirangi, 2019; and From Pressure to Vibration: The Event of a Thread, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt, 2017.
Recent group exhibitions include The air, like a stone, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi, 2023; Summer exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia, 2023; Woven, CGallery, Melbourne, 2023; Tree in a Hurry, The National, Ōtautahi, 2022; Evolutions of Galaxies, MADA gallery, Monash University, Naarm Melbourne, 2022; and Touching Sight (with Conor Clarke and Oliver Perkins), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna Waiwhetū, 2020-2021. Fitts returned to Ōtautahi from the UK in 2014 as the Olivia Spencer Bower recipient, was a McCahon House resident for winter 2018, and completed the Fulbright-Wallace residency at The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in 2019. Fitts lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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