Jim Speers : New Windsor Rd

Starkwhite is pleased to present New Windsor Rd by Jim Speers from 20 August to 10 September 2011.

New Winsor Rdwas filmed last summer in the western suburbs of Auckland while Speers was the artist in residence at the McCahon House in Titirangi.

In a series of long takes, the film explores the midday solitude of a slice of outlying suburbia - empty streets, sections awaiting buildings, where the other side of the road meets open fields - taking us from here to there while everyone else is elsewhere. With its focus on the everyday, New Windsor Rd is a meditation on what happens when nothing happens.

Jim Speers recent exhibitions/projects include: Numerology and Territories, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakaranga (2010); Crystal Spirit, Starkwhite (2009);  Ghost Trail Services, Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Curator Leonhard Emmerling (2005); Raider Lodge, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, Curator Heather Galbraith (2005) Brazil is Fine, Jeffrey, (Frances Hodgkins Fellow), Hocken Gallery & Library, Dunedin, (2001); and Tiffany's Kyoto, Artspace Gallery, Auckland (2000).

Selected group shows include: 15th Tallinn Print Triennial: FOR LOVE NOT MONEY,curated by Simon Rees, Tallinn, Estonia (2011); Sign of the Times, public project, City Gallery, Wellington, Curator Heather Galbraith (2008); Past, Present, Place,Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (2008); Video Block 3, Peng Raum fur Kunst, Mannheim, Curator Leonhard Emmerling (2007); Sport, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand (2007); High Tide, Recent Currents in Australia and New Zealand Art, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland and The Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, Curators Magda Kardasz, Simon Rees (2006);Gridlock: Cities, Structures, Spaces, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, curator Simon Rees (2004);Remember New Zealand, Sao Paulo Biennale Sao Paolo, Brazil, Curator Tobias Berger (2004);and Everyday Minimalism, New Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Curator Robert Leonard (2004).

Located in New Zealand on Auckland's Karangahape Road, Starkwhite presents a programme of artists' projects, solo shows, independently curated exhibitions and occasional forays into new music and other interdisciplinary practices. Starkwhite also represents artists from New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific rim.

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