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Ocean Store
Wellington 2019
Kemi Niko & Co
What we have stored, the waves throw back up. We treasure the ocean for its abundance, so what use is all its plastic? Ocean Store speculates on a future resource guided by natures elemental forces. It seeks to go beyond educational campaigns and artistic arrangements of ocean plastic, to reflect the honest state of the ocean and the raw emotions of the public. We want you to buy into the issue, invest in more than dollars. Dive deep for emotion and take responsibility for your waste, 10% of which will end up in the ocean. Ocean Store is now open. Are you?
Kemi & Niko are a multi disciplinary artist duo based from their home studio in Wellington. Working across art and design their socially engaged, values based practice connects the public to the environment and each other, often utilising salvaged materials. In summer 2014/15 they ran a widely successful public art project, Miniature Hikes, funded and exhibited by WCC Public Art Fund in the Courtenay Place Lightboxes. Since then they have worked with art organisations and community and educational groups installing new works, running workshops and curating exhibits. In 2018 they attended an artists’ residency camp run by Artshouse Melbourne, TPS; Nomad. They sell their work in stores around the country and from their website.
Supported by Seaweek 2019: Tiakina o tātou moana – Care for our seas, Fisheries NZ & Second Treasures Recycle Centre / Funded by Wellington City Council Public Art Fund
