En Plein Air 2009 COCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch NZ

From the C19th French term 'in the open air', the exhibition title refers to the practice of painting outdoors under natural light.  This innovation changed the essence of landscape painting, enabling a direct connection between reality and its representation.  In an art-historical twist, En Plein Air brings the outside inside to make landscapes of live grass and magnetic fields within the confines of the gallery, 'remaking' key paintings first made en plein air by modernist NZ painters seeking to represent an abstract landscape.

Bibliography: Moore Christchurch Press, Feeney Radio Interview