As the title suggests Auckland-based artist Evan Woodruffe has created a layered, organic environment with multiple portals and perspectives.

For Tauranga Art Gallery Woodruffe has embraced the scale of the atrium, covering the surfaces in large drops of shimmering velvet fabric featuring his signature arrangements of line, form and colour. Using the fabric like a skin, he pushes and pulls it, giving the impression of an undulating and moving surface.

Known for his colourful, dynamic paintings, Woodruffe has translated his visual language onto more traditional surfaces such as board and canvas as well as all manner of other objects including wardrobes, cars and clothing.

Described by writer Lucinda Bennett as “living, breathing ecosystems and visualisations of a new kind of urbanism” these works have moved beyond their painting origins to become something far more expansive and unique.