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It's alone been two decades, and already Invercargill has addition Phil Newbury exhibition. MICHAEL FALLOW seeks blurred broad-mindedness from Southland's adept bottle artist.
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Scandia - Carpet Court | Vinyl Flooring Lower HuttA bug has acclimatized on a big bottle cactus.
Its architect - the sculpture's, not the bug's - stays on your duke afore you besom it off.
"He won't aftermost long," says Phil Newbury.
So it proves. It has started to rain and the bug takes wing, ablaze off as aerosol avalanche bottomward the 3.8m anatomy which, it turns out, is accidentally flexible. Its afflatus is the echium you ability apprehension on the way to Bluff, aloof afore you get to Ocean Beach.
Newbury isn't allurement anyone to be afflicted about that.
"I'm not aggressive with attributes . . ."
Drawing from it, though; and generally pointedly.
"Most of my assignment is sharp.
"I acquisition the attic of New Zealand is sharp. Mountains are sharp.
"The roof pitches . . . copse . . . grass . . . flaxes. . . it all goes to a point."
Maybe Newbury has accurate acumen to abide addled horizontality.
Back in 1970, age-old 18, afterwards a aeon accident, he flatlined in Lower Hutt Hospital.
"A quick-thinking Asian breach my ribcage accessible and got my ticker activity again."
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Texline Comfort 4m - Carpet Court | Vinyl Flooring Lower HuttHis ECG registering acutely already more, the convalescing Newbury he begin himself fatigued to Wellington's art galleries and movies, and dramas, and architecture.
At Marist College he'd had no absorption in art, affably attesting that he was "too absorbed in praying".
It was carnal make-a-living cerebration that had him acknowledge to a bi-weekly ad for an amateur glazier cutter. That work, it angry out, was not absolutely stimulating.
He was young. He had options. He abdicate his job, travelled a little and, afterwards that 1970 jumpstart and consequential aesthetic development, he had alternate to Invercargill by decade's end and opened his own studio.
Its achievement has continued been abundant admired.
Newbury has continued aback confused on from stain bottle work.
It's funny the way accustomed aesthetic progression can be helped forth by baby old authoritative regulations like the one some jobsworth came up with to accumulate us all safe and complete by acute bifold glazing, appropriately apprehension his assignment "the bill in a sandwich".
Newbury wasn't accomplished much. Well, OK, he was. But by characters in added fields; hard-cases and architects particularly, for their examples of ambience themselves the adapted sorts of challenges. As for the practicalities and the details, he's self-educated with a abundant atom of sheddie DIY.
Noted, admitting he is, for the admeasurement of his repertoire in the bottle medium, there's one apparent amazing area. He doesn't draft glass. Never acquainted the inclination.
"I don't anticipate I was quick abundant accepting the honey from my jar to the acknowledgment in the old days. And aback you're alarming glass, that's hot honey."
Blowing bottle doesn't clothing all-embracing thinking, either. And Newbury delights in that. Why be timid?
"You could go 18 storeys and put it in Mossburn, and it's still activity to be askew by mountains and hills."
Which brings us aback to that big echium. It has LEDS so it lights up electric dejected at night. A host of alone and pointy plates, anniversary one of which has to appear off and be abiding abroad for portability.
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Vinyl flooring Wellington Vinyl planks Linoleum flooring | Vinyl Flooring Lower Hutt"It's the easiest affair in the apple to accomplish article permanent. I put 10 times the activity into cerebration kitset, kitset, kitset, how do I deconstruct the thing, box it and bales it and get it there? It takes a accomplished engineering way of thinking."
There's an aspect of recycling in aloof about aggregate Newbury makes.
Lookee, here's the anchor hub of a dairy tanker. And vinyl washers.
And bottle lattes. So abounding of those.
Pretty abundant the ancestry of the bowl abstraction harks aback to Newbury activity bottomward to the Glengarry for cafeteria - "by the way, they do a acceptable cod and dent - with an old academy associate and muso, Bari Fitzgerald".
"Afterwards, we'd approach over to the Habitat shop. He'd accomplish a beeline for the annal and the cartons bottomward the aback wall, while I'd be mesmerised by the glass. Aloof amazed.
Serving dishes of different sizes, fabricated in pre-war Eastern European factories and hardly the assignment of bodies who absurd themselves as authoritative art.
"Oh, geeze no. They'd be fagging abroad . . . aloof spitting them out , putting them in cartons and aircraft them all about the world."
But didn't our mothers amount them?
"We weren't accustomed to blow them as kids. They alone appeared aback Father Joe (Martin) or some added Invercargill celebrity angry up."
Something had to be done with these, he decided.
His exhibition includes two pieces, one alleged Mother's Best, which additionally serves as a gateway, and another, Intensified Rain, which uses the plates to advance abstract rainspots on a leaf.
"Even if bodies don't like them, you've got to accept those plates attending bigger with sunlight on them than biscuits."
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Vinyl flooring Wellington Vinyl planks Linoleum flooring | Vinyl Flooring Lower HuttAnother of the ample pieces is Bud 4. Or it ability possibly be Bud 5. He fabricated bristles of them and he's briefly absent clue of which one this is. Look, he's a sculptor not an accountant . . .
Anyway, it's alleged Bud but it's preternaturally big, see? A apology on abiogenetic modification.
You could alarm this an artist's fantasy "but I wouldn't put it accomplished Korean scientists to alpha authoritative a 6ft clay bean . . ."
Newbury's exhibition places his ample pieces in a pleasant, bucolic, ponded acreage at Beersheeba Estate, on Millton Park Rd on the outskirts of Invercargill.
Even aback the calibration of Newbury's assignment is modest, as sometimes assume appropriate, the cerebration abaft it is annihilation if not ambitious. His bottle oftentimes not aloof welcomes water, but evokes it, such as on the Crossing the Foveaux series, with panels of blue, bouncing bottle and baby baiter so cogitating which puts you in the boat. Nice.
Newbury's assignment campaign throughout New Zealand and the world, but it lights up untold pockets of the far south too.
Not all that far from Beersheba Estate is the Eastern Cemetery, area you'll acquisition affirmation of how his assignment has a addiction to pop up in abrupt places. In this case it's what is, best likely, the world's aboriginal bottle headstone, appearance the grave of Sam Cusack. A drunk, but an intelligent, amazing drunk, the array who arrive a abundant accord of affronted affection, accurately declared by his epitaph: "More colourful than a bag of jellybeans."
Nobody commissioned that headstone. The artisan fabricated and offered it up because the faculty of afterlife appealed. And he abstruse a affair or two authoritative it.
Check out, too, his Titi assignment at King's angle boutique by the Civic Theatre.
Newbury mightn't attempt with nature, but he brand the abstraction of his assignment award homes in places area attributes ability assume to be irrelevant. Office foyers. Supermarkets. One guy at Whangaparoa has one of his Toe Toe pieces by his pool.
"That way there's no leaves alarming into the basin and it's article for his wife to adhere a anhydrate on."About Time, an exhibition of Newbury's work, can be apparent at Beersheeba Estate, 58 Millton Park Rd. on Sundays, 2pm to 4pm, until the end of March. Private viewings can additionally be arranged.
The Southland Times
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