Patrick Lundberg is a New Zealand artist known for his carved archaeological wall incisions, portable paintings hanging off vertical lines of cord and squiggly pencil wall drawings. Along with this he has also recently made gesso balls built up on thumb tacks on which he has painted intricate detail and shoelaces, onto which he has painted and attaches directly to the wall.
The picture below is from his show at the Robert Heald Gallery in Wellington earlier this year. David Cross from the Eye Contact website states on a review of Lundberg's exhibition that 'he creates a formal approach of building layers of colour and line where you would least expect to see them. These additions are whimsical but not light and speak of an understanding of how complexity can be heightened through surprise and careful juxtaposition and placement'.
There appears to be a whimsical feel to the pins in the arrangement above which is reminiscent of the dot to dot activities undertaken as a child. The eye following the pins and joining these dots, trying to ascertain some recognisable form within. Lundberg denies us this and disrupts the normal thinking pattern through a purely abstracted form.
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