CITY FRIENDS

Auckland art week

This series of three portrait-style figures embody the artist's projection of happiness. Strong, vibrant human/architectural forms are informed by the city scape and the people who occupy the spaces, created out of wood and textiles to echo the facades of buildings and the clothes of the people who inhabit them. The artworks are intended to show vigorous energy and movement in their use of brutalist forms, shadow and depth while exuding warmth and light through use of warm palettes of joyous colours.

FUTURE ARTEFACTS

Future Artefact consists of two pillars in close proximity with embossed relief forms derived from letters that have been overlayed, stylised chopped and abstracted. The letters are open to be interpreted however the viewer perceives them, Somewhere in there is the name of the artist for those who can decode the futuristic hieroglyphs.

The twin pillars feel connected both by the ground and the sky, one almost expects to see electricity surging between them completing the circuit.

JACK PRINGLE CONCRETE HALF PIPE RELIEF

Working with Richard Smith From Rich Landscapes to create 3D artwork to adorn what would otherwise be the plain concrete sides of a skateboard ramp. The design is adapted from the 2D wall painting from Levis 2010 exhibition Secret Gutter Expose. That work was painted on a public wall and has long since been painted over. This work could be seen as a memorial to that artwork, or more like a resurrection of the work in a new, more permanent medium.

LOVE IS A RELIEF

Sylvia Park tile installation

In this work four letters that spell out the word ‘Love’, emerge from a wall of solid cube shaped blocks. a resurrection of the ones Levi once decorated the walls of our city with sometimes illegally. Long lost spray painted artwork that have become encased in the walls by grey anti graffiti paint, entombed but still ever present, now re-emerge from this wall stronger than ever.

From outside of society to the inside, an altered perception but the motivation has always been the same. Love.

www.sylviapark.com/love-is-a-relief-levi-hawkins

SHIFT

Canterbury Museum Takeover

More than 60 artists converted 35 spaces across five floors of the almost-empty Canterbury Museum, Levi was assigned an old weather exhibit that he blacked out and painted letter forms on the walls to create a dark backdrop for a red 3m tall sculpture. The sculpture False Idol No. 8 is a portrait-style figure constructed from architectural forms that look like they are cut from a solid block. Creating voids through his pieces that are influenced by Brutalism, urban architecture and a desire to create a monument to the universe’s unknown forces. The final result resembles the set of an 80’s B grade Sci Fi film.