Gina Ferguson
While maintaining individual practices, Gina Ferguson and Dale Cotton have been collaborating over the last 3 years. Gina Ferguson was born in Christchurch and currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand. She graduated with a BFA from Canterbury University in 1990, majoring in sculpture and an MFA from RMIT (Melbourne, Australia) in 1999. She is a practicing artist and full time tenured Senior Lecturer and Curator in the Department of Design and Contemporary Arts at Unitec | Te Pūkenga, Auckland, New Zealand. She has exhibited in both New Zealand and Australia. She has been a selected finalist in national art awards, exhibited in numerous major national sculpture trails and has work in collections within New Zealand. Gina primarily works within the context of sculpture/installation and is also involved in a wider range of art and craft practices. She is interested in notions of the body, abjection, place, space, and experience. The implications surrounding our environment, uncertainty and resulting instability are primary discussions informing her art practice. Installations are site responsive and often temporal; they typically involve audience participation enabling a deeper reading as the nature and surface of the work changes over time. Interactive and textural in form, her work draws upon the connotations that are evoked by materiality, site, and the senses (sound, touch, smell etc). This experience instigates embodied memory when the viewer encounters the work, establishing an opportunity for contemplation regarding the environment and a discussion of self in relation to otherness as central to the precariousness of our place and time.
Temporary installation – no longer in place
