There are more and more fragrances released every year—1600 in 2014 alone—and even then perfume is only a small part of the $28.95 billion dollar global fragrance industry. We live in a perfumed world, but our sense of smell still lives on borrowed descriptions and metaphors. Because we can’t see smell, in my work the fragrant object becomes crucial.

This series of photographs continues from my recent exhibition, Soliflore, at Tōi Poneke, working with fragrant cut flowers but also material associated with the norms of personal hygiene and household cleanliness: body wash, soap, cleaning products.

I am a Wellington based artist and designer with a Bachelor of Design from Victoria University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Massey University. Previous exhibitions include Red Ring as part of Satellite 06, in Shanghai, 2006; Five Treasures with Kate Woods, at Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, 2006; l’abbondanza della strada at Tōi Poneke in 2012, and Soliflore at Tōi Poneke in 2012.

I lecture in the School of Design and School of Art at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University.

 

'Manzo' is the musical alias of Wellington artist Alan Hodgetts, and his 11 track debut album Ultramarine is currently being prepared for release.

Primarily a visual artist who has been emerging on the Wellington art scene since 2012 he uses any medium or materials at his disposal to get his ideas and stories across.

More about the album: The 11 tracks cover a range of styles, genres and experimental music. There are some recurring themes, such as the increasing use of technology to control the lives of ordinary people; the minions that work for the Corporate and Government machines where thinking for yourself is not a good career move. It also questions the unsettling intolerance, terrorism and ongoing regional conflicts around the globe today. A little fun, love and civil disobedience are also thrown in for good measure.