Koru NZ Art

“Our Nature Matters”
New works by Kaori Jackson. Until November 30th.

“Pōhutukawa Lady” oil and mixed media on canvas. Jackie Dunn at Koru Gallery.

“Visions From the Soul”
Jackie Dunn. Koru Gallery. Until June 31st.

Suzanne Emslie’s “Best o’ Friends” exhibition. Runs until May 31st.

Jengis’s “7 Bowls” are selected pieces, (7 plus), from his current work and represent perseverance, resilience and a quest for a way forward on a path of peace.

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Neil Cameron: “Turning Leaves”
February 9–29, 2024 at Koru NZ Art, 2 Castle Street, Dunedin
Opening reception: 5-7 pm, 9 February 2024


This exhibition presents a series of photographs by Auckland/Dunedin photographer Neil Cameron, taken to accompany a cycle of poems by Buddhist nun Ani Kunzang, published in 2018 as Turning Leaves: Poems of Impermanence and Beauty. The poems serve as testimony “to the losses which Buddhist philosophy talks so clearly about in its teachings,” according to the volume’s editor Rebecca Reid. Yet, Reid continues, “[t]he poems also honour the beauty and fleeting nature of the moment.” In “Blueskin Bay Haiku III,” the poet writes “Stillness blown upon by the north, / leaves lightly dance / in the wild of space.”

The book itself is the product of a collaborative effort on the part of Ani Jampa Kunzang and the photographer Neil Cameron, “working together...during the long winter of 2015 in Dunedin, New Zealand” (au.blurb.com). Cameron uses the photographic apparatus to depict the impression or atmosphere created by a landscape. He does not re-present what we might see, underlining the unreliability of perception and the impossibility of grasping through our senses the “reality” of the world in which we live. His sensitive and haunting abstractions hint at precisely what we cannot see––that which remains once “we have shuffled off” what Hamlet called “this mortal coil.”

Koru ART NZ
Dunedin





References
Kunzang, Ani with Neil Cameron and Rebecca Reid. Turning Leaves: Poems of Impermanence and Beauty. San Francisco, CA: blurb.com, 2018.

au.blurb.com. Turning Leaves: Poems of Impermanence and Beauty. https://au.blurb.com/b/9522126-turning-leaves.


All proceeds from sales will be donated
to Dunedin’s Dhargyey Buddhist Centre

Turning Leaves by Neil Cameron. Charity Exhibition. Coming up at Koru Gallery February 9th