A survey of old and new works on stillness; then growth. This show is a counter to digital engagement and a salve to the constant desire for more, better, faster, bigger notions of success and progress. The show uses painting, sculpture, and photography to draw focus on different aspects of stillness.

Even in rural Taranaki, technology is encroaching on our peace. Apps to stay calm or meditate are replacing bush walks and swimming or sitting quietly in the shade reading fiction. There is something spiritual lost in this as well, time and stillness is required to engage with the divine, in whatever form it takes for you.

It is the attempt at stillness that is most important, not the success of it. To still the mind from racing ahead to tragedy or argument, to contrast movement and chaos, and to hold stillness in the same reverence that we do for productivity and drive. To feel the sun on my eyelids I have to pause, close my eyes, and get subtle.

The stillness of the hue seed, asleep underground, waiting for the earth to warm; or ash from Taranaki settling on a distant mountain in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. There is a stillness after a hard day's work when driving home in silence along country roads, lit only by the moon and your own headlights. Perhaps we need things to break the cacophony of daily life, a shift in our perception. While I am still here, I want to be still, here.