Philip Dadson
And the earth hums
12 March – 7 April 2024
And the Earth hums is a selection of mixed media works specific to the artist’s long-term relationship, as a pakeha visitor, to the geography, geology and cultural history of Motutapu and Rangitoto islands in the Waitematā, Tāmaki Makaurau. Throughout some twenty plus years Dadson has recorded and notated the impacts of visible and invisible forces on coastal rock surfaces. These impressions, Rock Records, represent mute and invariably volatile forces that Dadson perceives like a score – a frozen music of sorts, expressing a passage of time and energy transformation – mute cues from the pulse of the earth.
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Rangitoto, 2006, spectrophotometer ozone depletion recording discs, acrylic frame, 180 mm dia. $950 each
Phil Dadson, Little Doomsdays Rock Records, p. 56 circa 2019, graphite, Indian inks and acrylic on 300g art paper, 530 x 700 mm framed $2200
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, photographic print on 200gm Hahnemuhle paper, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, photographic print on 200gm Hahnemuhle paper, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Antartica 1, 2005, photographic print on 200gm Lamda photo paper, 450 x 660 mm $2000
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Antartica 1, 2005, photographic print on 200gm Lamda photo paper, 450 x 660 mm $2000
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2020-2024, mixed media/photograph, acrylic paints, Indiana inks on 200gm Hahnemuhle, 510 x 590 mm $2000
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, graphite, acrylics, inks, ink pens, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, graphite, acrylics, inks, ink pens, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, graphite, acrylics, inks, ink pens, 590 x 420 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, graphite, acrylics, inks, ink pens, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2021, graphite, acrylics, Indian inks on cartidge paper, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2021, graphite, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, graphite, acrylics, inks, ink pens, 420 x 590 mm $1750
Phil Dadson, Rock Records Motutapu, 2024, graphite, acrylics, inks, ink pens, 420 x 590 mm $1750