Low Draw Projects is the latest venture of the local artist Josh Bradshaw, which focuses on handmade objects inspired by the often overlooked details of golf and its surrounding themes. These objects are created with the same approach Josh brings to his wider art practice, one shaped by skateboarding, punk and hardcore music, and DIY culture, which present as an antithesis to the traditional aesthetic of golf, making Low Draw a playful subversion of the sport.
About Low Draw Projects
Josh Bradshaw, the artist behind Low Draw Projects, brings his reimagination of golf culture to The Little Street Art Festival by curating an unplayable urban golf course throughout the city, inviting audiences not to play (no need for clubs) but to see Ōtautahi in new ways, to reconsider lines of sight, and to celebrate the emerging cityscape.
The nine hole course is spread throughout surprising locations in central Ōtautahi, the audience tasked with imagining the physics and possibilities of play, visually navigating from tee box to flag. Discreetly placed, the flags and tee boxes are impossible and yet illuminating, drawing attention to change, making the audience aware of how the city of Ōtautahi has been re-shaped and cared for like the manicured greens, water features and raked sand traps of golf courses, while also repositioning golf within a new open and public context.
The project not only celebrates the cityscape, but challenges the perceptions of golf, adding a beautiful DIY aesthetic: the handmade and bespoke features are unique, presented as objects of art over function.
About Play It As It Lies
How To (not) Play
Each “hole” features a miniature tee box and an info sign, hiding in plain sight close to the ground throughout the city centre. The flags for each hole, by contrast, are placed up high, so look in every direction as you navigate the course, or use the clues on the course map below to help you find your way.
