INFILL is an exhibition by six Wellington-based practitioners who work collaboratively as the SubArt Collective.  The purpose of the group is to develop exhibition projects that challenge and extend the boundaries of fine art and design.   This is the third SubArt exhibition project and is a response to the concept of ‘Infill’.

Infill.  What does this mean?  To complete?  To replace?  To cram? To furnish? To seal?

Each participant has developed a work which is both a personal response to the Infill concept as well as being an expression of their individual artistic style.  The group has also worked collaboratively through the creative process in order to construct and craft an exhibition experience. 

The resulting exhibition is titled INFILL: A Contemporary Suburban Experience.  This concept of suburbia emerged during the development process and has been played out in the individual works.  Significantly, the participants have further refined the theme of this show through a considered installation.

INFILL: A Suburban Experience is also a site-specific installation – the group has responded to the proportions of this gallery and related it to the classic Kiwi quarter acre section.  This concept of space is loaded with notions of cultural identity, idealism and nostalgia which is interrogated and subverted by the works in the show.  The relationship of suburbia with domesticity, craft, and ultimately, gender, is an important and inescapable consideration.  Exploring this, INFILL: A Suburban Experience makes a contemporary contribution to art, craft and design discourses.