Artist Feature 005: mr BLœck. Kemureti-based painter, sculptor and photographer. He works under the mr BLœck pseudonym across painting, sculpture, photography and video. His expressionist work rejects minimalism through excess, distortion and colour, whilst his titles name the social frustrations most practitioners only hint at. In 2022 he opened a pop-up contemporary gallery in Cambridge representing emerging and Māori artists, and continues to build informal exhibition infrastructure across the Waikato. We discussed the tension between commercial and artistic practice, the lack of spaces for artists outside the main centres, and what it means to support other artists rather than compete with them.
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