Julia Morison has appropriated the Victorian card game Myriorama into a series of large-scale works modelled for specific gallery spaces. The fourth in the Myriorama series is currently installed in Tauranga Art Gallery’s Atrium. Myriorama is defined as a picture consisting of separate sections that can be combined in numerous ways to form different scenes. In the parlour game itself, each card is a unique landscape that can be positioned with others in the set to create imaginary scenic vistas. Morison’s interpretation is based intrinsically on linear modulations that twist and turn and loop around the gallery walls, and in places, spill out onto the floor. The catalogue contains essays on each of the four works in the series.
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