Tim Li
• – • two/fiftyseven
About the speaker
Tim Li is a full-time Kāpiti-based artist who produces hyper-realistic graphite illustrations and gyotaku fish prints of Aotearoa’s marine species. Growing up in Taupō at a fish and chip shop, Tim spent his afternoons drawing inspiration from the iconic New Zealand fish species poster, and this is where his fascination for the underwater world started.
His drawings display dramatic monochrome contrast, delicate attention to line detail and true representation of coarse and fine organic textures. While this process involves a controlled, meticulous approach to mark making, Gyotaku forces Tim to surrender control to some degree. To be at the mercy of the unpredictability of the inking and printing process Tim finds intriguing and somewhat addictive. The immediacy of Gyotaku counters the laborious nature of his drawings, dividing his time between both technical approaches in his practice.
As a regular diver and spearfisher, Tim is conscious of being respectful of the life he takes, only harvesting what his whanau needs and using as much of the fish as possible, extending this utilisation into the realms of art. In direct response to the pervasiveness of trophy hunting spurred on by social media, his artwork is seen as a practice that takes away the focus from the act of killing and instead pays homage to the beauty of the fish by documenting its unique existence, acting as a record of that fish in a certain point in time. Each individually honed piece is a monument to the ocean, and a challenge to the “plenty more fish in the sea” mindset.
@timliart www.timliart.com
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Hosted at
two/fiftyseven
2/57 Willis Street
Wellington, New Zealand 6011
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