2. Richard Maloy

Tree Hut, 2008

New Zealand artist Richard Maloy will be creating a Tree Hut for the sculpture project, made from wood and materials sourced form around the local area.
The audience is invite to enter; to look, to touch, to look though the windows, to use the tree hut as a site for people meeting and people interaction. Built somewhere between the heavens and earth, the tree hut in western tradition is an architecture that can describe either intimacy or isolation. Inside the walls of Maloy’s tree hut the visitor will spend contemplative time, time alone or share time. It will be a tight space where people are positioned together, able to talk communicate and share the experience of the hut and the out side environment. A tree hut is site specific architecture; its design dependent on the size, shape and type of tree and is designed and built with a direct relation with nature and materials at hand and the needs of the builder and there audience. Maloy’s tree hut is designed to co-exist within the river side environment; its four walls, roof and floor made of second hand wood, held together with nails and made with raw and very basic building techniques. The Hut will be complete with windows and pep holes becoming a framing device for taking in the river views.

Richard Maloy is an Auckland based artist who works in a range of media from photography, sculpture, video and installation. Maloy graduated in 2001 with a Masters in Fine Arts from The University of Auckland where he studied under New Zealand artists Derrick Cherry, Michael Parekowhai, Jim Spears. Maloy has exhibited widely in New Zealand at museums, public art galleries, artist run spaces and dealer galleries. Such as the Auckland Art Gallery, Waikato Museum, Wellington City Gallery, Sue Crockford Gallery, Room 103, Physics Room.

Maloy has been included in such shows as Accommodate, St. Paul Street Gallery, Auckland 2006; Summer Days, Auckland Art Gallery, 2006; World Famous in New Zealand, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia,2005; Remember New Zealand, Sao Paulo biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2005; The Future of Auckland, Artspace, Auckland 2002 .Maloy’s art works are in many permanent private and public collections, including photographs, sculpture and videos in the Auckland Art Gallery collection and significant collections of photographs in both the James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland and the Ergas Collection, Canberra. Maloy has works in private collections in New Zealand Australia.

Richard Maloy is represented by the Sue Crockford gallery, Auckland, www.suecrockford.com