{Suite} Gallery stand at the 2021 Auckland Art Fair. On show are works by {Suite} artists Tia Ansell & Douglas Stichbury, alongside a sculpture by Anton Parsons.
In these paintings made for the Auckland Art Fair, New York based artist Douglas Stichbury continues to explore his interest in speculative 20th century science fiction. The paintings on show are based on a concept for a film titled the Glass House by Sergei Eisenstein (a pioneering Soviet film director). The premise for the film, set sometime in the future, revolved around a glass residential building with no privacy, a musing on the architecture of surveillance and control.
Tia Ansell is a Melbourne based New Zealand artist whose practice combines both painting and weaving. The woven grids form the basis of Tia’s work, representing the urban landscapes of her neighbourhood in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, with aluminium frames which, based on a museum storage tray, allow the weaving and painting to be reflected, extending the illusion of a repeated pattern.
