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Phillippa KennyIn 2001 Phillippa Kenny graduated from AUT, with a Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in Sculpture.
Since that time, she has exhibited in group exhibitions at Depot Art Space where, in 2001, Kenny was winner of the Depot Art Award; ASA Gallery; Waiheke Gallery; and, most recently, McPherson Gallery where, in 2003 and 2004, she first exhibited light boxes.
During 2005 and 2006, while living and working in San Francisco, Kenny developed new work and new ideas, inspired and fuelled by both the opportunities and the challenges of living in this intense city. These include painting, stitched work and work with polystyrene.
Having spent many years pursuing black and white photography - culminating with an exhibition of street photography in San Francisco in 1994 - Kenny now realises light manipulation has always been of interest. Colour, on the other hand, was of only fleeting artistic attraction.
However, recently colour has become a key component of Kenny's light box works, a change resulting from what she has described as “a shift in my way of seeing”, prompted in particular by the work of Jessica Stockholder.
This year, Kenny has revisited the light box to further explore light along with colour and line. She remains drawn to the light box out of a fascination with the process of light manipulation - slight shifts and minuscule movements result in surprisingly vast changes in the overall outcome - and out of a desire to stretch the current boundaries of her previous works.
Phillippa Kenny Lightboxes are now on show at Momentum Galley.
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