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Tender Brick and Touching Sight

Arts correspondent Julia Waite looks at two exhibitions that are challenging the traditional use of materials.

Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)
Touching Sight: Conor Clarke, Emma Fitts, Oliver Perkins at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

Black Doris Tick. Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)

Cream Ticks with Pillars and Pink Friend Tick Army White Ticks with Two Pale Pillars Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)

Blunted devil cups. Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)

Gramps Stobo. Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)

Stobos on the road. Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)

Tender Brick: the Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby at Object Space (Auckland)

Oliver Perkins installation view. Courtesy of the artist, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, and Michael Lett, Auckland. Photo: John Collie.

Emma Fitts installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Melanie Roger Gallery. Photo: John Collie

Conor Clarke installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms Gallery. Photo: John Collie

Emma Fitts installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Melanie Roger Gallery. Photo: John Collie

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