Video Suburb
By vjRex and Jenny Gillam

Exhibition 28 June - 8 July 2006

Canary Gallery hosted two Wellington artists, vjRex and Jenny Gillam. With a razzle-dazzle collection of media including video, sound, still photographs and grass cut outs they have created a collaborative installation evoking foreboding menace, suspense and anxiety alongside more playful elements.

Exploring similar themes, their installation: 'Green Belt Video Suburb' recently showed at Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington from May 24 - June 9 2006.

'Video Suburb' explores relationships between environmental and suburban anxiety. It investigates social, political and ecological concerns and is intended to encourage re-examination of the ways in which we relate to our environment. The artists are working with complex layers of meaning which carry multiple possible interpretations. For more depth than can be literally explained here, you'll have to see the exhibition!

Both Jenny Gillam and vjRex (Eugene Hansen) are employed as lecturers at Massey University, School of Fine Arts, Wellington. They are co-founders and directors of SHOW, an artist run space in Wellington.