PRISMATIC TECTONICS

Visions (formerly Bowerbank Ninow), Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2021

Contending with complexity: Georgie Hill’s Prismatic Tectonics

Francis McWhannell

Complexly allusive, they flicker through diverse entities and phenomena. A flood of rainwater surging into a drain. The glassy tunnel of a rolling wave. The ragged luminosity of a damp sky. A stop light staining a steam-covered window. The streaky frills of a conch shell. The evocations differ from moment to moment and, no doubt, from person to person. They dart between categories, now biological, now elemental, now physical, now psychic, now earthly, now transcendent. The sense of energy is undeniable, but it is essentially elusive—as potent as sunlight and equally ungraspable.