Gradients of hills roll to swampy wetland where Toitoi sway in the breeze. Buildings decay faster than they can be replaced. This 2022 original artwork by CHIMP titled 'Difficult Land' is Acrylic, UV pigment and aerosol on panel. A one of a kind artwork that is signed and dated by the artist. Size: 1220mm (W) x 1220mm (H) x 70mm (D) View more works from this artist HERE International Shipping: For our international customers, we provide reliable shipping options to deliver your artwork worldwide. The team at Pack and Send work with trusted international carriers experienced in handling delicate and valuable items to ensure your artwork reaches you safely. For international shipping prices, please contact us at [email protected] with the name of the artwork and your location. We will be able to provide you with a quote within a business working day. About the artist: Ash Sisson aka Chimp is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist from New Zealand, now based in Melbourne and working from Everfresh Studios. With a background in skateboard production, street art, and industrial design, he has spent over a decade creating large-scale murals and sculptural installations. His practice explores human connection, identity, and survival through abstraction, reinterpreting nature and architecture in response to social, technological, and environmental change. Ash Sisson/Chimp has delivered major public projects for clients including New Zealand Parliament, councils, festivals, universities, Kathmandu, and QT Hotels. His site-responsive work is shaped by local culture, wildlife, and landscape. Most recently, he led a Melbourne City Council project transforming an undercroft into a multi-use public space integrating art, design, and construction. About the work: Escape Mechanism Escape Mechanism responds to Aoteroa’s housing crisis. Millions watch increasing house prices with decreasing value in the places we should be able to escape to and call home. Our crumbling properties, emergency housing units and homeless shelters are mechanisms of escape and safety, for many they’ll represent tūrangawaewae. This collection of original paintings, poems and sculpture aims to visually capture the barriers, realities and solutions ahead for our nation struggling to secure affordable and safe housing. Contemporary artist CHIMP began his journey spraying the walls of derelict buildings torn apart by earthquakes, weathering and landlord’s neglect. Today he paints outside the lines of our communities. His generation faces the most expensive housing market in New Zealand’s history, on top of debt for decades to come from pandemics, overseas trade disparities and a decreasing sense of hope across the board. Now, more than ever, the housing crisis will impact all corners of our growing population. CHIMP voices the concerns of fellow rangatahi in search of hope and change. His paintings represent different stages of the crisis, from flawed building blocks, unaffordable rents, landlords monopolising our cities and ignoring basic healthy home standards. He seeks consolation in cyberspace and conceptualises where we might escape to; copy & paste housing blocks, vertical builds and finally, makeshift housing.
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