17/05/2024
Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Rewilding the Garden featuring a new suite of paintings by Molly Timmins (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā).
Timmins is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Her work explores gardens as both an environmental physical place, and as a painted subject throughout art history.
Directly referencing her recent master’s thesis, Timmins’ ‘Rewilding the Garden' critiques European gardening conventions, and through her research she aims to reject the organisation of the ‘gardenesque’ with its order and control.[1]
The artist’s practice takes influence from the artist’s Ngāpuhi and Pākehā whakapapa, presenting a nuanced conversation between the two. Referencing her own heritage alongside considered painting techniques Timmins' navigates the colonial influence over both the garden and painting history, and the way in which women have historically existed in these spaces within Aotearoa in the last century.’
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1. Molly Timmins in Studio, (left Wilding Garden and right Garden Wilding)
2. Wilding Garden, 2023, Oil on canvas, 1900mm x 2900mm
3. Garden Wilding (detail) 2023, Oil on canvas, 1900mm x 2900mm
