Jhana Millers Gallery company logo
Jhana Millers Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Video
  • Viewing rooms
  • Contact
  • Store
Cart
0 items NZD$
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu

Elisabeth Pointon, WHERE TO FROM HERE

Past exhibition
10 September - 3 October 2020
  • Overview
  • Installation Views
  • Works
  • Related content
Overview
Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon

Elisabeth Pointon is an early-career artist from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her work has been exhibited at a number of significant institutions, including the Dowse Art Museum in Te Awakairangi, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, and City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. She is best known for her event-based and sculptural works, which centre on text, and relate to her long-term day job at a car showroom. Pointon riffs on physical advertising devices, such as banners, blimps, and flailing tube men. The phrases she favours—‘BIG DEAL.’, ‘SPECTACULAR.’, ‘PHENOMENAL.’—are the ebullient language of sales floors. She tends not to recreate longer slogans, but keeps her expressions tight, allowing the complexity of fairly minimal bits of language to be explored. She embraces slipperiness, but also retains a keen interest in the potential of collective understanding and action.

In WHERE TO FROM HERE, she continues her exploration of the complexity of small fragments of language. She embraces slipperiness but also retains a keen interest in the potential of collective understanding and action, inviting audience-members to consider what responses might be required in a time of economic, environmental, and health crises.

An important element of Pointon’s practice is institutional critique. She responds to the failings or limitations of galleries, gallerists, and curators in ways pointed and subtle. As a queer woman of colour, she recognises that artists like her are still shown relatively seldom by public institutions, and are constantly at risk of being side-lined or tokenised. She creates works that are bold and outlandishly grand, seizing opportunities to occupy the most space that she can, and pushing the limits of what an early-career artist with limited resources might be expected to achieve. WHERE TO FROM HERE involves a broader critique, not only questioning what it means to hit the ‘big time’ in the art world, but also inviting audience-members to consider what kinds of response might be required in the present moment—a time of massive economic, environmental, health, and social crises.

Installation Views
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Elisabeth Pointon
Elisabeth Pointon 
WHERE TO FROM HERE 
Jhana Millers Gallery
Works
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, TAKE CARE., 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, BIG DEAL., 2020
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, SPECTACULAR., 2020
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, OUTSTANDING., 2020
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, MADE YOU LOOK., 2020
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, PHENOMENAL., 2020
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, WHERE TO FROM HERE., 2020
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon
    Elisabeth Pointon, BIG TIME., 2020
Related content
  • Elisabeth Pointon, WHERE TO FROM HERE Videos

    Elisabeth Pointon, WHERE TO FROM HERE

    Exhibition teaser Sep 10, 2020
    Read more

Related artist

  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Elisabeth Pointon BIG TIME. Artist

    Elisabeth Pointon

Back to exhibitions

Join our mailing list

Interests *

Signup
Jhana Millers
Whare Toi
Te Whanganui-
a-Tara
Address
Level 1, 85 Victoria Street, Te Aro
Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Wellington
 
Hours
Wednesday – Friday, 11am – 5pm
Saturday, 11am – 4pm
Directions
 
Contact
+64 4 471 1022
hi@jhanamillers.com
 
Social
Instagram
Facebook
Mailing List
 
Friends
Parrotdog Beer
Everyday Wines
The Exceptional Drop
Caughley
Yu Mei
Grafik
Profile Photos

 

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Send an email
Join the mailing list
View on Google Maps
Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
© 2025
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. 

Accept