Contact- mike.okane @ hispeak. co. nz (just remove the spaces)
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July 2021- four of my latest artworks are being shown by the Moray Gallery.
Also in Dunedin- My ongoing exhibition at Fairmaid Chance and Crawford Dunedin; includes descriptions and prices. All welcome
‘Collateral Damage’ is a series of my works using models with some depicting a ‘war’ theme.
Includes a submarine, a WWI aircraft, a Super-Constellation, a German BMW and rider, a French 1917 tank, an Italian WW1 soldier at a moonlit cemetery, etc.
Pause for a moment in a disused railway tunnel near Owaka.
Comments and feedback– email details: top of page, and on Contacts page.
•Exhibitions; recent and upcoming.
•Image galleries, click on Sculptures, Cars, Trains or Warlike
• James Dignan’s perspective on Mike’s work with toys.
•Mike’s sculpture meets science head on- a conversation with neuroscientist Brian Hyland; https://corpus.nz/concerning-anxiety-art-meets-neuroscience/
•Fringe Festival Billboard project
•Audio project- Disentangling and resurrecting discarded bits of audio cassette tape life, where the sound track stumbles, then stops.
Ongoing exhibition at Fairmaid Chance and Crawford Dunedin; includes descriptions and prices. All welcome
Here’s a detail from one of the public art works in Reconciliation Place Canberra. Fire and Water by Judy Watson.
Jan 2020 Flew into Canberra ACT. Heat and bushfires and smoke all around the state and neighbouring New South Wales. So much loss of wildlife and habitat. Then a hailstorm which tore through the leaves of wonderful Canberran trees, (and also damaged 37,000 cars).
ABOUT MIKE.
An artist and the inventor of HiSpeak the communications device pictured at left.
Mike usually lives in New Zealand and graduated with a Fine Arts Degree and the Sculpture Prize in 1997.
His work over the last decade or so has evolved into photographically creating seemingly plausible truths; proposing new possibilities for the toys and models of childhood play. More recently it has involved constructing and painting plastic kitsets with a war theme; a guilty pleasure revisited.
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Mike has a number of works in public and private collections in New Zealand and in private collections in Australia.
Billboard 60 Special. 2012.
