lind
dylan
Born in Auckland in 1979, Dylan Lind is of Cook Island and European descent. He graduated from Elam with a BFA in 2001.
Lind's puzzle-like work mixes the abstract techniques of the neo-expressionists with the patterns of the traditional Pacific quilts known as tivaevae. In his early work, Lind built scraps of mixed media, including wallpaper, cloth, linoleum and tarpaulin, into kaleidoscopic textured collages of everyday life that draw on the crafts of his cultural heritage. More recently, Lind has refined his work to enamel and acrylic, creating jewel-like geometries of woven colour thick with drips of paint.
For Lind, painting is both conceptual, exploring the contrast between the "slow moving soft lines and vibrant colours" of traditional Polynesian arts and the "hard-edged, sometimes uncompromising nature of more developed nations", and tactile, an expression of his pure joy in the physical act of spilling glossy enamel onto a clean canvas.
LISTS
6 - 24 September 2016
Like painted walls, the words in these works paintings are not necessarily important, they point to a time, part of its expression. They become part of part of history.
Logic and Reason
24 June - 12 July 2014
This current body of work moves on from the triangular motifs of the tivaevae to rectangular, diagonal shapes based on Latin American slums or barrios, reflecting a Venezuelan landscape of chaos, civil disobedience, jailed opposition leaders, media bans, student protests, street barricades and tear gas.
hunter - gatherer
28 June - 16 July 2011
Lind's sixth show at Orexart is a melodious contemplation on the ways he can demonstrate and combine his love of materials with growing skills in creating subtle painterly effects. The grid gives way as Lind paints vaguely petal like forms that float over the veils of cooler hues.
playing a part
13 - 31 July 2010
Lind's applies abstract techniques to further blur the line between the puzzle-like grids of the traditional Cook Island tivaevae and pure abstraction.
THE NEW PACIFIC
25 August - 12 September 2009
Moving from the cut out and applied fabrics of works to acrylic and enamel on canvas, Lind reinterprets the traditional tivaevae, combining design and pattern with more modern art practices to create work reflective of the environment that he knows.
