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Paul Judge, who lectures in film at the Waikato Institute of Technology, is currently making a film about the career of assemblage artist Don Driver.
"The principle theme of the documentary has been to look at an artist working with cultural signs and the multiple layers of meanings in visual languages. By placing recognisable shapes and objects within the formal planes and arrangements of abstraction Driver is immediately creating meanings and associations that the viewer will interpret as they wish. His drawing on the psychic dislocation of surrealism and building on his experiments in formal abstraction creates profound juxtapositions and readings." Paul Judge, film synopsis, 2003.
Narrated by poet, novelist and life long friend of Driver, Elizabeth Smither, the film locates Drivers practice in an international context and looks at the influences on his work including ancient Indian and Asian sculpture. The film takes in the no small degree of controversy Driver's sculpture has attracted and the general viewing public's sometimes hostile response to his work.
Colour & Ritual: The Art of Don Driver dates and times of screening to be advised.
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