Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery

Peter Robinson

Cuts and Junctures

11 October – 20 December 2013

Peter Robinson is one of New Zealand’s leading artists. Since 2006 he has been exploring a history of modernist sculpture, reworking its forms and manoeuvres in unlikely materials such as polystyrene, felt, Perspex, and piano wire. Robinson’s sculptural investigations ransack recent art history, referencing artists as various as Andre Cadere, Franz Erhard Walther, Eva Hesse, and John Panting, but they also inject suggestive cultural and narrative content to disrupt modernism’s autonomy and its universalist claims. His new work was commissioned to coincide with John Panting: Spatial Constructions and was especially conceived for the Adam Art Gallery’s spaces.

This exhibition is generously funded by a grant from Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

This exhibition was staged concurrently with John Panting: Spatial Constructions.

Media release

Public programme pdf

Media & Downloads:

Read in print: Edward Hanfling, 'A Conversation with Peter Robinson', Art New Zealand

Read: Martin Patrick, 'Drawing in Space', The Listener

Installation view of Peter Robinson, Cuts and Junctures, 2013, cut wool felt, installation dimensions variable, at the Adam Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Installation view, Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures at the Adam Art Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Installation view, Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Peter Robinson, Cuts and Junctures, 2013, cut wool felt, installation dimensions variable, at the Adam Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view, Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of Peter Robinson, Cuts and Junctures, 2013, cut wool felt, aluminum, installation dimensions variable, at the Adam Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Installation view, Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Installation view of Peter Robinson, Cuts and Junctures, 2013, cut wool felt, aluminum, perspex, installation dimensions variable, at the Adam Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Installation view, Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Peter Robinson, Cuts and Junctures, 2013, cut wool felt, perspex, installation dimensions variable, at the Adam Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist and Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. Photo: Shaun Waugh.

Installation view, Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013. Photo: Shaun Waugh