“Somewhere Between Abundance”
Taarn Scott
31 May → 7 July 2025
Window

Three marbled brown, blue and white porcelain sculptures hang from silver chains of varying link sizes.
Taarn Scott, 'Somewhere Between Abundance', 2025, installation detail, West Space Window, Collingwood Yards. Photography by Janelle Low.

Somewhere Between Abundance is a new project by Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland based artist Taarn Scott for the West Space Window.

Somewhere Between Abundance explores the ever-increasing impact of urbanisation and the climate crisis on our environment and specifically, the threat placed on native bees across Aotearoa and Australia.

A delicate installation of ceramic and porcelain forms suggesting hives and tunnels — real and imagined — brings together Scott's interests in object making, adornment and natural insect formations to speculate hybrid-form habitats that might emerge from the shells of what is lost.

Somewhere Between Abundance is supported by Creative New Zealand. West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra.

Three marbled brown and white porcelain sculptures hang from silver chains of varying link sizes.
Five marbled porcelain and ceramic sculptures hang from chains against white background.
Three marbled brown, blue and white porcelain sculptures hang from silver chains of varying link sizes.
Silver chains tangled together against white background.
Two marbled sculptures and silver chains of different link sizes. The sculpture in the middle is hang by a silver chain.
A detail shot of a marbled brown and white ceramic and porcelain sculpture. The sculpture has many recesses and tunnels with organic edges.
Two marbled porcelain sculptures hang from silver chains. The sculpture in the front is brown and blue, the one in the back brown and white.
A series of marbled porcelain and ceramic sculptures hang from chains in a white window which is a recess in a red brick wall.
A series of marbled porcelain and ceramic sculptures of different sizes hang from chains in a white window which is a recess in a red brick wall, with a label beside the window on the brick wall.

Taarn Scott is an artist from Ōtepoti, based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Their practice is multidisciplinary and often collaborative, creating tactile objects informed by ornamentation and jewellery, with forms that speak to ideas around habitat, environmental concerns and geographical histories. Scott is currently researching insect habitats and working with wax and clay.

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