by Melanie on 18 May 2012
Congratulations to Lauren Brincat, who has been awarded one of the Australia Council’s inaugural Creative Australia Fellowships. The Fellowships are a new initiative to support the professional development of established and early career artists. Lauren’s Creative Fellowship will...
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by Melanie on 08 May 2012
Melbourne Art Foundation has announced that New York-based Australian artist Ian Burns will be the Commission Artist for the upcoming Melbourne Art Fair, which takes place 1-5 August. Burns’ work will be a large-scale sculptural work titled Clouds:
"Against the cultural backdrop of the...
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by Sue on 26 April 2012
If I could be forgiven for crashing my way through art history, I did think it was a useful idea to pair ideas together from both the Auckland Art Gallery's Degas to Dali exhibition (D to D) and Made Active: The Chartwell Show. It would be a fairly random and, yes, lightweight, pairing/match up...
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by Melanie on 23 April 2012
Chartwell would like to congratulate the recently announced Walters Prize 2012 nominees: Simon Denny, Alicia Frankovich, Kate Newby, and Sriwhana Spong. Their works will be exhibited in the Chartwell Gallery at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from August to October; particularly exciting this year...
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by Melanie on 13 April 2012
To coincide with the upcoming exhibition of Daniel Malone’s major installation Black Market Next To My Name in Made Active: The Chartwell Show at Auckland Art Gallery, Clouds and Hopkinson Cundy are publishing a new book documenting the work. Titled Black Market Next To My Name, the...
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by Sue on 11 April 2012
Made Active: The Chartwell Show
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
14 April - 15 July 2012
www.aucklandartgallery.com
Opening on 14 April, 2012 is Made Active: The Chartwell Show, Level 2, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
Artists in the show, curated by...
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by Sue on 11 April 2012
A few notes regarding Made Active:The Chartwell Show...
01: Painting as Performance
Fiona Connor said to me recently that she has lately been thinking about painting as a documentation of performance. This is a good way to think about the physical nature of painting a painting. I read recently...
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by Sue on 11 April 2012
A few notes regarding Made Active: The Chartwell Show...
02: Abstract Expressionism revisited
In the context of this exhibition, where objects such as Paul Kos’ Equilibre 1V, 1992, are installed with expressionist paintings by Allen Maddox within a broader discussion of action and...
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by Amy Howden Chapman on 19 March 2012
The promise of land was a crucial part of the American dream. People migrated from the Eastern states in search of wider horizons and, by and large, they found them. The land of the West of the US has long been a site for the reinvention of cultural norms. As Marilynne Robinson, the Western...
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by Melanie on 19 March 2012
The Armory Show 2012
New York City
8 − 11 March 2012
www.thearmoryshow.com
Starkwhite presented two NZ artists at The Armory Show 2012 in New York City. New York-based Martin Basher exhibited new paintings and sculptures, pictured above.
"The booth will feature panels of two-way...
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by Melanie on 12 March 2012
Image: John Reynolds on Helipad, photo by Jason O'Hara.
Kermadec
Edmiston Gallery of Maritime Art
Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland
15 February - 1 July 2012
www.maritimemuseum.co.nz
Kermadec presents a collection of artworks from South Pacific artists inspired by their voyage...
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by Melanie on 10 February 2012
Contemporary Australia: Women
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
21 April - 22 July 2012
www.qag.qld.gov.au
Queensland Government Arts Minister Rachel Nolan has announced the 33 artists and collectives to be featured in Contemporary Australia: Women, an exhibition opening at the Gallery of...
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by Melanie on 10 February 2012
Congratulations to Laresa Kosloff who has been announced the 2011 recipient of the Jane Scally Art Award.
"The Jane Scally Award will enable me to realise a project in Russia and Scotland that directly engages with the contexts and ideas that have shaped my practice over the years. This is a...
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by Melanie on 30 November 2011
The Chartwell Trust Student Art Writing Prize of $500 is awarded annually for a review or essay addressing an exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery or a work from the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection. The prize is open to all Victoria University students studying Art History,...
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by Melanie on 28 October 2011
Congratulations to Paul Cullen who has been selected for one of the 2012 Senior Fullbright Awards.
Paul will be based in the Architecture Department at Auburn University in Alabama where he will work with landscape architects to develop a site-based outdoor sculpture project. In parallel...
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by Melanie on 17 October 2011
Update: We're happy to report that Michael Parekowhai's proposed sculpture, The World Turns, was awarded Premier of Queensland's Sculpture Commission. You can read more details about the work and the commission on Creative New Zealand's NZ At Venice blog.
Following his success in Venice,...
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by Melanie on 14 October 2011
Video: Slide show of works in the Chartwell Collection
Chartwell would like to thank the Arts Foundation for awarding us the 2011 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage.
"Chartwell is delighted to receive an Award for Patronage from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, which is...
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by Melanie on 26 September 2011
The video work by Clinton Watkins presented by Chartwell in
conjunction with the artist and Starkwhite for Auckland Art Fair is
now available to download free directly from our website. The
video is an M4V format and is compressed as a .zip file.
Click here to download video (4MB) >...
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by Melanie on 20 September 2011
Reason and Rhyme
ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland
30 September - 28 October
www.stpaulst.aut.ac.nz
Chartwell are proud to support Reason and Rhyme, a two part collaborative trans-Tasman exchange project between ST PAUL St Gallery and Gertrude Contemporary. New Zealand artists included in the...
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by Amy Howden Chapman on 06 September 2011
Theatre Objects
The joy of the much talked about and repeatedly reviewed William Leavitt retrospective Theatre Objects, which recently ended at MOCA – was a brazen simplicity coupled with a deep sense of strangeness. Leavitt’s work investigates the alien in the everyday by contemplating...
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