One of our favourite galleries is te tuhi the mark, in Manukau City.

We don't need any excuse to visit it, but there's a treat promised on Wednesday at lunchtime: a collaborative project between artist Peter Madden and poet Sam Sampson called The Deep End.

According to the PR, the project

... explores the importance of visual imagery to the poet and likewise, the importance of words in the creative process of the visual practitioner ... each interaction is a meditation on a theme, or thread linking the other’s work.

There are a number of common interests – for example, Sampson has a series of works concerning ships and shipwrecks, Madden, pictorial work to do with ships carrying early European colonists to New Zealand – read together the works add rich layers of possible meaning to the other.

The work of Sampson and Madden already has significant similarity. Madden uses found images from encyclopedias, books and magazines – which 'act like building blocks to create alternative meanings and possibilities'.

Sampson is also versatile: he has taken the underside of Madden’s cut-out images, which contain snippets of text, and created both new poetry and another dimension to Madden’s collage. 

Intrigued? Pop along to 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga on Wednesday for the Poetry Reading at 1.30pm and the Artist's Talk at 2pm.