Artist / Kaiako Toi / Researcher
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
anthony@anthonycribb.com
UFO Bureau (of Investigation)
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This research centre brings together the Unified Field Theory (Andy Thomson) and Orange Theory (Paul Cullen) research clusters. The UFO Bureau (of Investigation) will investigate through individual and co-operative modes of art practice, the ways in which power or energetic force (e.g. social, political, physical), can deconstruct the façades (e.g. language, systems, infrastructure and stereotypes) that delineate diverse discipline paradigms.
Using a project-based structure of inquiry, individual artist/researchers will co-operatively produce artworks and ideas that model and propose heterogenic paradigms of trans-disciplinary praxis. Qualitative research methods are intended to produce research outcomes including artworks, exhibitions, curricula and learning materials (e.g. lectures, projects, workshops and seminars), articles papers, and a critical forum online resource to facilitate dialogue and document and disseminate research outcomes.
Born. Aotearoa
Ngāti Rangi, Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa.
Lives/Works. Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Anthony Cribb is an artist, educator, and researcher from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. His visual arts practice employs a project-based working method, artworks respond to the social environment of their site, provoking variance in form, scale, and concept from work to work. However, a binding thread between projects is provided by an accumulative methodology – where modes, ideas, and techniques are gathered and cached, to be expressed in subsequent works. Current research is located in the use of concepts relating to the 'miniature' and 'miniaturisation' as tools to explore a broad range of artistic, social, and creative phenomena. Education practice looks at the transformative potential of artistic creativity, particularly its use in provoking the development of criticality, problem solving abilities, and empathy.
Education
2015 PhD
2010 Master of Art and Design
2009 Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design
2001 Bachelor of Visual Arts
Cullen, P., & Eccleston, T., & Thomson, A. (Eds.). (2016). Weakforce 4. Auckland: split/fountain.
Cribb, A. (2015). XX/XX/XXXX–XX/XX/XXXX (Variable-Span-Variable): an exploration of the miniature and reverie in contemporary art. Auckland: AUT.
Cribb, A. (2014).Black Holes, Paintings, and Other Catastrophes. Auckland: RM.
Paton, K. (Ed). (2014).Public Good. Hamilton: Ramp Press.
Thomson, A. (2013). Below Above Auckland: LOIC.ORG.NZ.
Gomez, A. (2013). How to use LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon), "(It's not me in the video)", the fable of gauss and flame. Auckland: LOIC.ORG.NZ.
Beattie, M., Gomez, A., Hickman., Y. (Eds.). (2011). Field Essays: The Importance of Practice. Field Essays: Auckland.
Cribb, A. (2010). The Imminent Object: concepts of entropy in relation to material, scale and duration. Auckland: AUT.
Selected Works
11/11/2017 – 25/02/2018 (CORRECTION)
11/11/2017 – 25/02/2018 (CORRECTION), Sculpture in the Gardens, Auckland (2017–2018)
CREATIVE INDUSTRY/ART THERAPY/MONUMENT (MORDOR), Auckland Artweek, Auckland (2017)
Broscience S02E02, Auckland Harbour, Auckland
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BLOCKS II (TŌTARA WHAKATAUKI), Wintec Campus, Hamilton (2013–2017)
Te Whare Tapa Wha, Waikato Museum, Hamilton (2017)
Winner of National Contemporary Art Award merit prize. Te Whare Tapa Wha employs Sir Mason Durie’s model of Hauora to re-encode the space of the museum. Within this new encoding, walls not only delineate holistic space,
but become individual instances for meditation on aspects of self – and a provocation to think art through these terms.
HETEROTOPIC LIBRARY, Kohuora, Auckland (2016–present)
The Alchemist, Artist's Way, The Art of Learning, As a Man Thinketh, Convict Conditioning, Daily Rituals, Discipline and Punish, Eats Shoots and Leaves, The Essential David Shrigley, 59 Seconds, The Four Hour Body, The Four Hour Work Week, Gramsci's Political Thought, How to Get Things Done, How to Look at a Painting, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Letters from a Stoic, Man's Search for Meaning, Marcel Duchamp, The Mural Manual, The Obstacle is the Way, The Power of Habit, The Power of Now, The Prophet, Screw it, Let's Do It, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Siddhartha, Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument, Tools of Titans.
XX/03/2015–28/03/2015 (VARIABLE-SPAN-VARIABLE), ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland (2015)
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WEAKFORCE4, ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland (2013)
Bruce Barber, Benji Bradley, Liz Bird, Anthony Cribb, Paul Cullen, Eugene Hansen, Joe Jowitt, Laresa Kosloff, Lee Ihnbum, Ziggy Lever, Kim Morgan, Deborah Rundle, Matthew Sansom, Daniel von Sturmer, Andy Thomson, Layne Waerea, Suh Youngsun, and invited guests.
Over the duration of Weakforce4, artworks, events and happenings will take place in the Gallery spaces. Some are scheduled, others will develop during the course of the project. Energetic relations are co-opted by Weakforce4 to produce a sequence of related art works and projects. Artists and invited guests will work together to realise works that differently examine the language, systems, structures and stereotypes that often determine the types and qualities of energetic relations between individuals, groups, objects, sites and spaces. Weakforce4 is the fourth Weakforce project associated with UFT (Unified Field Theory) http://uft-gravity.com/ The aim of the umbrella project UFT is to locate and represent the social as the generative dynamic of co-operative creative work. WeakForce4projects are generated by concepts embedded in the UFT project that explore how artists can work together.
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Blocks (XX/XX/XXXX), Public Good: RAMP Gallery, Hamilton
Curated by Kim Paton
www.ramp.mediaarts.net.nz
Public Good – part of the ongoing series of exhibitions and publications examining the use of land and resources belonging to the commons. For Public Good, artists Stuart Shepherd and Anthony Cribb and architect Elisapeta Heta present works that document and contest the status quo. What happens when we loosen the reigns on prescribed theories of what public space looks like and who it should service?
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14/09/2013 – XX/XX/2013, Karangahape Road, Auckland (2013)
Ozlyn
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Photos courtesty of Gabrielle Amodeo
I/II, II/II, II/I (2013)
Duas Cidades: RM: Auckland, New Zealand and VEREDAS-SP: São Paulo, Brazil
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Duas Cidades is an exchange between a group of five New Zealand and four South American artists to form a 'single exhibition' that occurs in two different galleries in two different cities at the same time: RM in Auckland, New Zealand and VEREDAS-SP in São Paulo, Brazil.
Separated by 12012km, an ocean and a continent, the initial motivation for the exchange project was to address geographical and geopolitical similarities and differences. However, over the course of eighteen months this project has become an on-going series of communications and miscommunications, understandings and misunderstandings, sudden strides forward followed by frequent postponements.
The resulting exhibition is a series of works which in parts address our initial motivations, but the works also reflect lost points of reference, concealed stories and misinterpreted information. There continues to be a shared uncertainty as each group of artists interprets, installs and contextualises the unfamiliar works in their familiar spaces.
Facilitated by Fernanda Barreto and Gabrielle Amodeo
Broscience S01E02, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland
24/01/2013 – 17/02/2013, Waiheke Island (2013)
headland Sculpture on the Gulf
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Broscience S01E01, Ferari, Auckland
05/09/2012 – 16/09/2012*, Ferari, Grey Lynn (2012)
Ferari: The Sickman Cometh with Robert Fraser
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17/03/2012 – 10/06/2012, Waitakaruru (2012)
Call and Response: Waitakaruru Arboretum and Sculpture Park
Curated by Kim Paton.
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06/10/2011 – 21/10/2011, Pop-up Space Karangahape Road (2011)
Project for Field Essays: Auckland Art Week 2011
Curated by Michelle Beattie, Andy Gomez, and Yolunda Hickman.
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23/08/2011 – 27/08/2011, ST PAUL ST Gallery 3 (2011)
New Works with Ross Forbes
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Durational project for Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
Curated by Bruce Phillips.
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Auckland based artist Anthony Cribb explores the tactile relationships between common materials, structures and spatial experience. His installations often include grimy substances held in tension by cleanly constructed timber structures and plywood viewing platforms. For Te Tuhi, Cribb has created a site-responsive durational installation in the Te Tuhi Courtyard. Within a two month period Cribb will create a number of different interventions that will alter the physical elements of the given site and consider the cultural history of the Te Tuhi Courtyard.
Anthony Cribb is the fourth recipient of the Iris Fisher Scholarship, a Te Tuhi initiative that annually rewards an outstanding visual art student enrolled in an Auckland tertiary institution. The scholarship is named after Iris Fisher, an important founding member of the Pakuranga Arts Society and driving force behind the creation of the Fisher Gallery, later to become Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts. Her original bequest has fostered contemporary visual art practice not only in Pakuranga, but also in the wider Auckland region. In keeping with her vision the Iris Fisher Scholarship has been established to assist tertiary-level visual art students with their studies. Te Tuhi would like to acknowledge Stephen Fisher for his ongoing involvement with the Scholarship.
15/12/2010 – 10/03/2011, Creative New Zealand: High Street (2010-2011)
Project for Creative New Zealand with Amber Pearson and Ross Forbes
Curated by Kate Muggeridge
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09/11/2010 – 15/11/2010, ST PAUL ST Gallery 1 (2010)
Exhibition at St Paul Street Gallery as part of AD10
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Micro-Site, Public Sculpture (2010)
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Micro Sites is a series of 12 small, temporary public art projects by 13 artists that are intriguing, subtle and surprising discoveries for people living, working and walking through Auckland's Learning Quarter.
The Learning Quarter encompasses Albert Park, The University of Auckland, AUT University and surrounding streets and neighbourhoods. The Micro Sites project was conceived as an opportunity for artists to create small-scale interventions that run against the grain or interfere with everyday perceptions and experiences of a place or neighbourhood. Micro Sites is a public art initiative of Auckland City Council developed in partnership with The University of Auckland and AUT University.
24/04/2010 – 01/05/2010,
ST PAUL ST Gallery 3 (2010)
Curated by Dr Melissa Laing
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The final exhibition of the season, opening on April 22, showcases two 2009 graduates from AUT University's Visual Arts department, Anthony Cribb and Agnes So. Both Cribb and So create works that operate under tension. Cribb's models, made out of earth, coal and wood, overload their supports, causing them to bow under the weight or balance precariously. So's constructions, assembled out of everyday objects, operate through balance and counterweight and have the potential to collapse at any moment. While using two very different methods of construction both artists make the principals of physics the very basis of their work.
The 2010 Sculpture Season, at ST PAUL ST Gallery Three, is an opportunity to experience the diversity of current sculptural practice in New Zealand. Over the course of the season new work from eleven artists; William Hsu, Kah Bee Chow, Clara Chon, Carol Lee-Honson, Tiffany Rewa Newrick, Diane Atkinson, Museum of True History (MOTH), Erica van Zon, Anthony Cribb, Agnes So and Nick Spratt, will be presented in six two week long exhibitions. The Sculpture Season is curated by Melissa Laing.
2 Minutes 31 Seconds (2009)
Video Still
Untitled Weight, Auckland University of Technology (2009)