“Star Gossage paints ghosts; beautiful faces from dreams, angel-like apparitions imbued with collected memory and ancestry.
Ingrained in the wood that they’re painted on with the colours of earth, sea and sky, they are the faces of time that have a troubling elemental spookiness, as if they have appeared from the smoke of a fire or a sea mist.
They speak of the earth of Gossage’s ancestral land at Pakiri Beach north of Auckland, recalling the spirit world of traditional Maori carving and Gossage’s own early pou carving, as if emerging from the land or wood itself.
There’s no innocence in the eyes of her figures; they feel soaked in both love and sadness … their pupils boring through you, as if demanding that their stories be remembered.”
Mark Amery
Wellington Dominion Post, July 2006
Tim Melville Gallery is proud to present our final show for 2012 in association with PAULNACHE Gisborne.
Photography: Kallan MacLeod
Star Gossage
Whai
2011
oil on board
835mm H x 600mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Far Away Eyes
2012
oil on board
445mm H x 345mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Waiata o te Wairere
2011
oil on board
920mm H x 600mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Au II
2012
oil on board
445mm H x 340mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Mt Negra I Dreamt This
2012
oil on board
690mm H x 455mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Wairua and Tinana
2012
oil on board
805mm H x 535mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Au
2012
oil on board
300mm H x 345mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
At My Table With Myself
2012
oil on board
800mm H x 600mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
On My Land
2012
oil on board
600mm H x 800mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Au, au, au
December 2012
Installation View
Star Gossage
Au, au, au
December 2012
Installation View
Star Gossage
Wairua and Tinana
2012
oil on board
805mm H x 535mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Mt Negra I Dreamt This
2012
oil on board
690mm H x 455mm W
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Star Gossage
Au, au, au
December 2012
Installation View
Star Gossage
Au, au, au
December 2012
Installation View
Star Gossage
Au, au, au
December 2012
Installation View