If cows didn’t like mustard, 2026 is a 16mm film @lucymeyle and @ziggylever made for Open Window alongside Pause, act, void, event, opening at the Govett-Brewster next Saturday 28th Feb!
Our work considers the competing agency of humans, plants, animals and technology in the production of images and meaning.
Pause, act, void, event has been curated by @simongennard_ & @taarati_taiaroa
Ngā mihi nui to Ian Powell who processed, scanned, and advised on If cows didn’t like mustard. @reversalcine
The development of this work has been supported in part by Te Kura Toi a Hoahoa (School of Art and Design), Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau (Auckland University of Technology).
Ziggy Lever and Lucy Meyle, If cows didn’t like mustard, 2026, 16mm Kodak film: Vision 3 200T 7213; Ektachrome 7294 (cross-processed ECN-2 and E6); Double-X 7222. HD scan to digital video, stereo sound.
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Many small roadblocks cause maximum annoyance // Tear it Down Dec ‘84
More and more people are prepared to break the law // Nottingham ALF action reports Autumn ‘84
If not you, who? // Underground # 6, Winter ‘96
Thank you thank you to the wonderful @amyw_ng for writing Scores for the Unseen, a response to the exhibition The Castle and the Goat, published in the debut @currentartmagazine 🔔💚
Thank you Amy 🌼 and thank you Becky 🩵
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐭
Renee Bevan, Yukari Kaihori, Lucy Meyle
November 8 – December 6, 2025
Curated by Victoria Wynn-Jones
𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧: Saturdays, 12 PM – 6 PM, and by appointment when scheduling allows.
“the word dropped into her mind like a pebble thrown into a pond”
- Sylvia Townsend-Warner
「その言葉は、池に小石が投げ込まれたように、彼女の心に響いた」
― シルヴィア・タウンゼンド・ワーナー
Dandelions (if not you, who?)
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Cast bronze dandelions, risograph and newsprint images.
A few images of my work in the show ‘the castle and the goat’ at Goya Curtain, along with Yukari Kaihori and Renee Bevan, organised by Victoria Wynne-Jones.
Huge thank yous to Joel Kirkham 🪐 @domestic_dust for facilitating and hosting us at Goya Curtain.
We were also supported by Creative New Zealand and AUT to make and install the work, and to put together a publication to be released next year.
