You are invited to the opening of the solo exhibition ‘Like A Fish Out Of Water’ by West Auckland ceramic artist Annie McIver. Opening Friday 15 November 2024 at 6pm. Everyone is welcome.

“When I make figures, a comment often made, is that my pieces teeter. I don’t set out with that intention, but they do. Somehow they are on the verge of falling or floating or disintegrating. Perhaps they echo my sense of being like a fish out of water - an outsider unable to catch my breath in company. With that in mind, I have placed a fish in a pram on a bed of sticks as a measure of my discomfort. Most of my pieces are about the human condition from the perspective of a melancholic outsider, viewing the Anthropocene and all that that implies.” - Annie McIver

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

The Uses of Sorrow

Someone I loved once, gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to realise that this, too, is a gift.

- Mary Oliver