Alex Laurie
Nit
Setting (December), 2025 (detail)
Grace presents Nit, an exhibition by Alex Laurie.
Alex Laurie is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Recent exhibitions include: Reception with Yukari 海堀 Kaihori (Blue Oyster, 2025), Augur of Mercury with Sophia Laurie (Grace, 2024), The Person with Priscilla Rose Howe and Tom Tuke (Coastal Signs, 2022).
Setting, 2025 (installation)
Setting (January, February, March), 2025 (installation)
Setting (March), 2025 (detail)
Setting (April, May, June, July, August), 2025 (installation)
Setting (August), 2025 (detail)
Setting (June), 2025 (detail)
Setting (September, October, November, December), 2025 (installation)
Setting (June), 2025 (detail)
Setting & Cartouche, 2025 (installation)
Cartouche, 2025
Polyethylene, wood (Douglas Fir) ,water, acrylic paint, aquarium pumps, perspex Dimensions variable
Cartouche, 2025 (Installation)
Cartouche, 2025 (Details)
Nit
1.
the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect
2.
a foolish person
3.
a unit of luminance used to measure brightness
The three-letter homonym is the title of the latest exhibition by Alex Laurie, an artist who crafts material and conceptual multivalences. In Nit, spoons and ladles transform into illusionary ciphers, as the translucent objects vie for invisibility in a minimal scullery. At the centre of the exhibition is a sculptural water feature, continuing Laurie’s long-standing interest in vessels such as ponds, troughs, and buckets.
Through his subtle use of materials, Laurie examines how we observe and interpret objects. Nit offers fragments of narrative in the movement of water, as the objects seem to animate themselves through slow, circular motion. Allusions surface too—of the quiet labour that sustains a gallery—as the artist’s vocation forms a backdrop to invention.
- Emil Scheffmann
Cartoche, 2025 (installation)
Please contact the gallery here to receive a catalogue for Nit.