Up-cycling, airbrushing, found objects and a technique called pinstriping feature in an exhibition by Whangarei artist Mandy Thorburn, at the Yvonne Rust Gallery, Quarry Arts Centre.
Thorburn takes a wild and wonderful approach to her array of subjects in Steeling the Show. The wispy airbrushing, reinvention and amalgamation of art and artifact reflect the artist's interest in the past and possible lives of all things different, used, loved and reincarnated.
Steeling the Show features bonnets, bags, trunks, surfboards and more. It is about looking at a piece of junk through different eyes and seeing what it can be transformed into.
"My show is a wide variety of stuff - up-cycled, all dating through the 1960s, '70s, '80s and given a new life," Thorburn said.
The raw material was collected from the local refuse centre, swap meets and op shops - "any place where I am able to get hubcaps and lights".
Steeling the Show is open until August 18.