BETH DAWSON
WAVES BETWEEN

The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. 

Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.  

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves 

Stepdown is delighted to present Waves Between, an exhibition by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Beth Dawson, also known as Ducklingmonster. In this exhibition, Beth generates an audio-visual celebration of continuous interconnectedness through drawings, performance, collaboration, and recording.

With radical attentiveness carried in listening and drawing, encounters reverberate across the artist's noise-table. Quick gestures worked in tinted cellulose glue, beeswax crayon, and saturated ink express a relationship to the lively moments of voice and distortion in Ducklingmonster's improvised sound performances. The material layers of Waves Between invite contemplation of the waves between electromagnetic bodies and fields in the permeable membrane of Stepdown.  

Waves Between will include an opening celebration, a Ducklingmonster live performance, and a collaborative listening and drawing workshop. 

A limited edition 7" lathe with unique risograph covers by Ducklingmonster will be released on the occasion of this exhibition.

Opening Celebration: 5.30pm-, Friday 7 February