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Julian Dashper 1960-2009
It is very sad news that Julian Dashper has passed away.
30 July 2009
Rob Gardiner, Julian Dashper, Mark Adams in front of Phlip Clairmont work in the Chartwell Collection, preparing for The Painting Part, 1978-1989, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, NZ, 3 July - 27 July 1990
Sue Gardiner, Julian Dashper, Hamish McKay, with The Hoteres, The Big Bang Theory, Chartwell Collection, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2008
Jim Barr and Mary Barr wrote passionately on their blog, as have many others in recent days:
http://overthenet.blogspot.com/2009/07/julian-dashper-1960-2009.html
We have just heard the expected but still shocking news that Julian Dashper died this morning. Julian has been an irrepressible presence in the New Zealand art scene for so long now, it is impossible at the moment to imagine it without his emails, funny stories, relentless optimism and a sweet nature, albeit tinged with steel when it came to his work. Julian and Marie managed what has often been considered impossible: two artists living together, both hugely admiring and supporting the other’s work. Add their son Leo and you had a very tight unit. Much of Julian's earlier work is little known by a decade of young artists - his wild exhibition with John Reynolds at Peter McLeavey’s in 1984 is an incendiary memory. His later work, and his impeccable role model as a working artist, has been a profound influence. We will miss Julian terribly, but his presence is everywhere.
We will all miss Julian. Best wishes to his family and friends.
Govett Brewster Gallery wins award
On 20 July 2009 the Arts Foundation of New Zealand honoured the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery with their prestigious Governors’ Award. Director Rhana Devenport and staff of the Govett-Brewster warmly invite past and present supporters to join them in celebration of this tremendous accolade. This event will also preview the Gallery’s ambitious and vigorous 40th anniversary plans for 2010.
The Governors’ Award recognises individuals or institutions that have contributed in an exceptional way to the development of the arts and artists in New Zealand. The Govett-Brewster is only the third recipient, and the only visual arts organisation, in the award’s history.
In presenting the award the Arts Foundation Governors' commented:
“The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has set a benchmark for commitment to the ‘new’ that no other gallery in New Zealand has been able to equal. The Gallery has unswervingly followed a path of presenting leading edge contemporary art and a succession of able directors has brought to New Plymouth a programme that one might more readily have expected in one of New Zealand’s larger cities.
“The district of New Plymouth, and its community, has steadfastly supported the Gallery and art in the community, including Len Lye’s Wind Wand, demonstrating an appreciation of the importance of contemporary art, which belies the size of the city and its regional location. This civic leadership and commitment is greatly admired by the Governors”.
The Govett-Brewster is deeply honoured by this award, which acknowledges the commitment of past and present gallery directors, staff, supporters and our community and their passionate faith in the power of contemporary art.
28.7.09
Auckland Art Gallery is delighted by Rita Angus biographer Jill Trevelyan’s win at last night’s Montana NZ Book Awards.
Trevelyan co-curated the blockbuster exhibition Rita Angus: Life & Vision opening at Auckland Art Gallery this Saturday, 1 August.
Her biography about one of our most celebrated artists, Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life (Te Papa Press), has won the 2009 Montana Medal for Non-Fiction.
The awards’ judging panel: English literature academic Dr Mark Williams, journalist Margo White and novelist Jane Westaway, said the book is one to use and treasure.
“Trevelyan’s writing is elegant and lucid and the book’s scholarship is exemplary.”
Philip Norman, the awards’ biography category advisor said Trevelyan’s book helps establish Angus’s rightful place as a principal figure in the history and development of New Zealand art.
Trevelyan is a Wellington curator and writer. She co-edited the exhibition catalogue Rita Angus: Life & Vision (Te Papa Press, 2008). She also edited Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters (Te Papa Press, 2004), shortlisted for the 2004 Montana Book Awards, and co-authored Rita Angus: Live to Paint & Paint to Live (2001).
In Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life, Trevelyan draws on newly available archives and letters to bring to life Rita Angus the person. Family papers recently returned to New Zealand and archives in the Alexander Turnbull Library reveal the stories behind many of Angus’s iconic artworks, and give a fuller picture of this articulate and forthright woman. Stunning artworks, personal photographs and insightful letters help complete the compelling portrait.
Jill Trevelyan gives a free public talk at Auckland Art Gallery on Sunday 16 August at 1pm.
Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life is for sale in Auckland Art Gallery’s shop for $69.95.
Rita Angus: Life & Vision
1 August to 1 November
Auckland Art Gallery
Corner of Wellesley and Lorne Sts
Free entry
NZ at Venice
Judy Millar
Judy Millar has 'taken over' the interior of the Neo-Classical structure La Maddalena, the only circular church in Venice, designed by Tommaso Temanza and built in 1780. The largest piece in Millar's exhibition is a painting in the round, bulging and intruding into the viewer's space in three dimensions.
Francis Upritchard
The installation Save Yourself by Francis Upritchard includes clusters of figures situated on table-like wooden platforms extending out from the base of giant antique mirrors in three chambers within the Fondazione Claudio Buziol at Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana overlooking the Grand Canal.
Dame Jenny Gibbs
www.stuff.co.nz reports:
3/6/09
The lifetime of dedication Jenny Gibbs has poured into the arts, education and philanthropy in New Zealand has culminated in a new honour for her.
Mrs Gibbs' contributions are being recognised in her being made a Dame.
The system of titles for the Queen’s Birthday honours this year has been restored by Prime Minister John Key.
The titles were dropped in 1999.
Mrs Gibbs is one of two to be appointed a Dame Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit.
Speaking from her Orakei home, Dame Jenny says learning about the honour was "thrilling, and a great delight".
She was about to fly out for the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, which represents another source of personal accomplishment for her.
"The Venice Biennale is the world’s best art show, and I have pushed for many years to have New Zealand represented there, so to attend and see this realised is very good," she says.
"There were people there from every dot on the map. We very much needed to have a presence."
Despite having immense respect and appreciation for all the honours and titles she has earned, Dame Jenny says that looking back the greatest joys have been in her grandchildren and their achievements.
"The joys that remain with one are always about family," she says.
Dame Jenny is renowned as a philanthropist and art collector whose influence in raising the profile of New Zealand art internationally is legendary.
She has played a host of impressive roles during the past decades of commitment to excellence in her chosen fields.
Those include founder and chairwoman of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland Contemporary Arts Trust, founding trustee of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, and foundation donor and board member of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
She is a longtime member of the prestigious International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
She was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998, was awarded an Auckland City Distinguished Citizen Award in 2004, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage in 2007, and an honorary doctorate by Auckland University last year.
Looking ahead to a time that she is resigned not to see, but which she supports for the good of Aucklanders and their children’s children, Dame Jenny is enthusiastic in her support of the Tank Farm waterfront development.
"This project could change the shape of Auckland’s face and go on to become a quality part of Auckland’s heritage," she says.
Exhibition News:
The Blue Room: 13 artists respond in a psychic way
Curated by Pippa Sanderson
The Blue Room exhibition has been on the move, opening at Te Manawa on Saturday 20 June 09.
There is an artists' talk on Saturday 11 July and this will be followed by a catalogue launch. The show opened at the Blue Oyster Project Space on 22 October 2008 then embarked on a two venue tour. It will be at Te Manawa Museums Trust, Palmerston North, until 11 October then Hastings City Gallery are taking the exhibition in 2010, between February and April.
Media coverage:
Review Otago Daily Times 30/10/08 by Chanelle Carrick in Art Scene
National Radio Arts On Sunday interview with Lynne Freeman, Sunday 28 October 2008
Web:
Blue Oyster website http://www.blueoyster.org.nz/the-blue-room/
Te Manawa website http://www.temanawa.co.nz
NZ live http://www.nzlive.com/te-manawa/the-blue-room-13-artists-respond-in-a-psychic-way
Cat Auburn, Karena Way
03 Mar to 28 Mar 2009
City Art Rooms, Level 1, 28 Lorne St
Cat Auburn Karena Way
little rain
One imagines a delicate pitter patter, in the evocative title little rain, the first glimpse into the world conjured by artists Cat Auburn and Karena Way. Featuring a carefully selected body of work in photography, sculpture, video, and sound, the first joint exhibition by Auburn and Way explore the fragile state of innocence in human development and in nature. A soundscape designed by Way will resonate throughout the gallery, contributing a capricious mood enhanced by Auburn’s sculptural centrepiece - a life-size horse reposing on a grand bed of straw.
Cat Auburn is a graduate of the PG Diploma programme at Elam School of Fine Arts. She was recently curated into the 2008 NZ Sculpture OnShore biennial. Karena Way completed her Masters at the Elam School of Fine Arts and participated in the 2007 Elam Art UpFront project for the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland.
Artspace, Auckland
Curated by Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, ARTSPACE 2008 Curatorial Intern, this exhibition of Giovanni Intra's archives includes a range of ephemeral material including photographs, contact sheets, test-strips, drawings, slides and photographic documentation, notes, research pieces, newspaper clippings, postcards, original writing, correspondence and clothing. The archive's captivating appeal lies in its zeitgeist quality - the potential for this collection to somehow capture the nexus of 1990s activity and argument that fed into Intra’s multiple practices and those of his peers.
300 Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Festival 2009
Check out the Visual Arts programme, curated by Natasha Beckman, on:
The Festival Programme includes, at the Auckland Art Gallery:
Yinka Shonibare MBE
Yinka Shonibare MBE is well-known for his eye-catching headless mannequins, engaging photographic narratives and use of recurring visual symbols such as Dutch wax ‘African print’ fabric fashioned into elaborate period costumes. Employing diverse artistic media including sculpture, photography and film, Shonibare playfully stimulates debate about culture, identity and the legacy of European colonialism.
In 2004, Shonibare was short-listed for the Tate’s prestigious Turner Prize. He has recently been selected to create the 2010 commission for the Fourth Plinth, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious public art commission, in Trafalgar Square, London
This internationally acclaimed exhibition is curated by Rachel Kent and toured by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia. From Auckland it will tour to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Image: Yinka Shonibare, Diary of a Victorian Dandy 19:00 hours, 1998, one of five type c photographs, Collections of Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica. Image courtesy of the artist, James Cohen Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
© the artist.
Bruce Barber at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts 2009
Image courtesy www.tetuhi.org.nz
Bruce Barber’s major survey exhibition Reading and Writing Rooms is now extended until the 18th February, 2009
Reading and Writing Rooms brings to the fore a New Zealand artist who played a vital role locally in the 1970s, and has gone on to achieve success as an artist internationally from his base in Canada. This major survey exhibition of Bruce Barber’s work is the first time that the full span of his 40 year career is gathered together in one exhibition. Reading and Writing Rooms makes apparent the full importance of Barber’s contribution to art making, both locally, and to a wider international audience.
From Barber’s early conceptual performances using the body to his two major series’ Reading Rooms and Squat Projects, his art practice demonstrates the potential for art to engage in communicative or social action. Described by eminent art critic Lucy Lippard as ‘the quintessential dissident theorist/artist’ Barber’s art practice raises questions of value, labour and cooperation as these relate to the space of social and cultural transformation.
His art work is often described as ‘littoral’—a word which literally refers to the indeterminate space between the sea and the land, or the foreshore. Applied to art ‘littoral’ acts as a metaphor for a liminal space between, as Canadian critic Marc Leger has written; ‘between the private realm and the public sphere, between the every day and the instititionalised art world.’
Reading and Writing Rooms is a partnership project with Artspace Sydney and has received support from the Manukau School of Visual Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology and Creative New Zealand.
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Arts Foundation of New Zealand:
Awards 2008
In November, 2008, The Arts Foundation of New Zealand, Principal Sponsor Forsyth Barr, and Freemason’s New Zealand announced the recipients of the 2008 Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Awards. Five artists have each received $25,000 and been recognised for their early achievements. The Awards were presented by Freemasons New Zealand, who provided the donation for the artists. The New Generation Awards are available to artists practicing in any art form, with recipients selected by a Curator without their knowing they are under consideration. This year’s Curator was Gregory O’Brien, a Wellington-based writer, teacher, and painter. Gregory said “the five artists chosen have a real urgency, excitement, commitment and originality in their work - a sense of building upon a tradition within their fields (finding sources of inspiration both in New Zealand and abroad) and also surging forth into the future.”
The recipients of the 2008 New Generation Awards are music-maker Jeff Henderson, new media artist Alex Monteith, opera singer Madeleine Pierard, writer/actor Jo Randerson and writer Anna Sanderson.
New Publication: Ralph Hotere
Ron Sang Publications has published a new book Hotere in November 2008.
Hone Papita Raukura (Ralph) Hotere was born in Mitimiti, Northland, in 1931 and was made an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artist in 2003.
Illustrating more than 250 of Hotere's paintings, this 324-page publication is the most comprehensive survey of his works produced to date. Covering approximately 50 years of his career from the beginning of his mature work in the 1960s, through to his more recent work, most of the featured paintings are from private collections and are being reproduced here for the first time. Included are essays by writers selected by Hotere, Vincent O'Sullivan “Sketching the Artist” and Kriselle Baker “He Kuaka Marangaranga A Godwit that Hovers”, as well as a series of rare biographical photographs taken by one of New Zealand's most respected photographers, Marti Friedlander.
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, February/March exhibitions 2008
Land Wars part 1: Shift
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri (Palestine/Tehran), Wayne Barrar (NZ), Heath Bunting (UK), Inez Crawford (Te Whanau a Apuni), Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann (Germany), Shona Rapira Davies (Ngati Wai), Chaz Doherty (Ngati Tawhai of Tuhoe), Pat Hoffie (Australia), Robert Ransick (US)
Shock! Horror! Suspense!
Erica van Zon
Drawing Wall
Liyen Chong
Artist's billboard series
Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Michael Parekowhai
Maori Hall, Auckland
Installation view of entrance to Maori Hall, and Parekowhai's inflatable rabbit, Jim McMurtry, 19 - 23 February 2008.
The New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2008
Waikato Society of Arts www.wsa.org.nz
Winner: Michael Taylor, Vanitas: To the Actual Size of Everything, oil on belgian linen.
Len Lye: Five Fountains and a Firebush
Govett Brewster Gallery
7 December 2007 - 24 February 2008.
Launching in June 2008 will be a book about the life, work and cultural significance interntaionally of New Zealand born artist Len Lye ( 1901 - 1980) Contributing writers include TYler Cann, Wystan Curnow, Roger Horrocks and Tessa Laird as well as an introduction by London based curator Guy Brett.
GUY BRETT
2008 Clark Collection Critic/Curator in Residence
Art History, Victoria University of Wellington
The Art History Programme is pleased to announce that leading London-based, freelance curator and critic, Guy Brett will be taking up the Clark Collection Critic/Curator-in-Residency hosted by Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in February 2008. Brett will spend six weeks in Wellington researching New Zealand art as well as contributing in various ways to the teaching programmes of the university and giving a number of public lectures in Wellington and further afield.
Brett has been a distinctive voice in art criticism since the 1960s, working as the art critic for the Times between 1964 and 1974 and the Visual Arts Editor for City Voice between 1981 and 1983. He is a writer and curator, known for his trans-national perspective that has brought to attention a number of artists normally thought of as outside the mainstream, in particular Latin American artists such as Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Davila and others. Some of his significant projects include Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, a major survey of kinetic art staged at MACBA in Barcelona and the Hayward Gallery in London (2000) and monographs on Mona Hatoum, David Medella, Rose English and others. He is currently working on a major retrospective of the work of Cildo Meireles for Tate Modern which will open in October 2008. A collection of his writings, Carnival of Perception: Selected Writings on Art, has recently been published by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London (2004) and he is a contributor to a forthcoming publication documenting the work of pioneering video artist Darcy Lange that is being prepared by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
The Clark Collection Critic/Curator-in-Residency is hosted by the Art History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. This residency was established in 2006 and is designed to enable an art critic/curator with an established reputation to undertake a period of sustained research in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing their knowledge of New Zealand art and culture.
This important initiative is the first of its kind in New Zealand and has been made possible by the generosity of The Clark Collection, The Chartwell Trust, and Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. The Art History Programme has funding to host three residencies over a period of five years. The first residency was successfully undertaken in 2006 by Singapore-based curator and writer Lee Weng Choy.
Tina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery and Senior Lecturer in Art History, Victoria University of Wellington. tina.barton@vuw.ac.nz
Lighting the city CBD: Auckland, NZ
Announcement from Councillor Greg Moyle, Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee chairperson, Auckland City Council
17.12.07
An innovative new way to showcase public art in the CBD is being trialled by Auckland City Council on a phone booth in Lorne Street.
The art work is a light box with an image of a keyboard installed on the back of the phone booth.
Jae Hoon Lee's work Salvation
The council owns the intellectual property rights for the phone booth concept. If the 12-month Lorne Street pilot proves successful, more lightbox art works could be unveiled on phone booths across the city.
Councillor Greg Moyle, Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee chairperson, says the council is already well underway with its plan to introduce a significant number of new art works in the CBD.
“Public art is critical to the design and atmosphere of public spaces. It’s a great way to create interest and life, particularly in places people least expect it,” says Mr Moyle.
The council is working on a 10-year plan to transform and revitalise the CBD, which includes a public art work programme, says Mr Moyle.
“A key part of that plan is to showcase significantly more New Zealand art works in the central city,” he says.
“International experience shows that by introducing distinct and highly visible art and design, we will help people connect with the central city and recognise it as the heart and soul of Auckland.”
The phonebooth art work initiative follows on from the recent award winning streetscape upgrade of Lorne Street.
Jae Hoon Lee's work Salvation is on display for the first six months and artist Niki Hastings-McFall's Bloom will be installed for the remaining six months.
The artistic brief was for the works to encompass graphic art, colour, light and technology.
Salvation is a digitally collaged photograph of Jae Hoon's first New Zealand keyboard, while Bloom will be created using white synthetic lei.
Telecom NZ is supporting the one-year trial and hopes to reduce graffiti as a result.
Artspace 2007 Editions
NICK AUSTIN
MARTIN BASHER
MEG CRANSTON
et al.
REUBEN PATERSON
SRIWHANA SPONG
Every year ARTSPACE works with a number of artists to create a group of fundraising artists' editions to support their exhibition programme. This year they release six new editions which are on display in the Reading Room.
View them online at www.artspace.org.nz/editions/2007editions.asp
Announcement from Creative New Zealand
17.12.07
Creative New Zealand is pleased to announce that it will host the official New Zealand presence at the 2009 Venice Biennale and that it is also exploring the establishment of a Biennale Foundation.
A Venice Biennale Foundation
Creative New Zealand is exploring the viability of setting up a Biennale Foundation to support New Zealand’s ongoing participation at this prestigious international event.
The establishment of a Foundation has been considered for some time by the arts community and key stakeholders, including Creative New Zealand. We are looking to take a leadership position in advancing this proposal and will work with interested parties on how a Biennale Foundation can be established over the following months.
This work is a direct response to arts community feedback and Creative New Zealand’s analysis about how best to secure New Zealand’s future participation at the Venice Biennale.
Any Foundation structure will take time to establish, so New Zealand’s 2009 entry will be managed by Creative New Zealand.
Calls for Expressions of Interest for Venice Biennale 2009
We are now calling for Expressions of Interest from artist/curator teams with considerable experience and reputation who are keen to develop the 2009 Venice Biennale exhibition.
Interested artist/curator teams should contact Creative New Zealand for an expression of interest prospectus that outlines the scope of the project, the selection criteria and selection process before making their application.
To register and receive an Expressions of Interest document, please contact:
Undine Marshfield
Creative New Zealand
PO Box 3806, Wellington
Tel: 04 498 0725 / Fax: 04 498 0720
e-mail: venice@creativenz.govt.nz
All artist/curator applications close at 5pm, Thursday 14 February 2008.
To keep people informed about this exciting opportunity for our country’s visual arts sector and New Zealand as a whole we will be regularly updating www.nzatvenice.com which will become our online home for the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Stephen Wainwright
Chief Executive
Creative New Zealand
Floored
Chartwell recently supported Fiona Connor's exhibition Old Buildings at Gambia Castle, September 2007.
Here are some images, courtesy of the artist and Gambia Castle.
BillBoards
Billy Apple has worked with radio host Marcus Lush to produce several billboards around Auckland in September 2007.
ARTSPACE billboard project: et al. - the fundamental practice - regroup, reorder, restore, May 2007’.In association with Langham Hotels, et al. created the first billboard for Artspace in Auckland.
Gambia Castle News Update
Gambia Castle is moving and will be closed for 3 weeks. They will re-open on Wednesday 10 October with an exhibition of new work from Simon Denny. The new gallery is at Level One, 454 Karangahape Rd, Auckland, New Zealand.
In the meantime Gambia Castle strongly recommends:
Nick Austin ‘On Appetitb’
and
Ronald Clyne ‘Folkways Records Cover Design 1951-1981’
at ARTSPACE from 29 September - 27 October 2007
Opening: Friday 28 September at 6pm
See http://www.artspace.org.nz/
ForRestaurant
A group exhibition including work from: Conor Clarke, Fiona Connor, Julien Dyne, Sam Harnett, Anya Henis, Jill Kennedy, Dave King and others.
Opening Tuesday 25 September at The City Art Rooms.
Level 1, 28 Lorne St, Auckland, or see cityartrooms.co.nz for more details.
Fiona Connor also has a work, 'Lights Off' on display on the hallway monitor at A Centre For Art.
Opening Tuesday 18 September at 6pm with Nita Xharra and Rachael Wells' exhibition in the main room.
A Centre For Art is at Room 5, Level 3, Achilles House, Corner Custom and Commerce Streets, Auckland Opening hours: Thursday 11am - 7pm, Friday 1pm - 7pm, Saturday 1pm - 7pm
Gambia Castle is open Thursday, Friday from 2-7pm and Saturday from 12-5pm
Level One, 454 Karangahape Rd, Auckland, New Zealand
Ph: +64212442243
info@gambiacastle.net
gambiacastle.net
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Awards 2007
IN August 2007, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand announced five new Icons, honouring a lifetime of acheivement in the arts. They were: Dr Raymond Boyce, Don Peebles, Don Selwyn, Ans Westra and Arnold Manaaki Wilson. New Generation artists Eve Armstrong and Joe Sheehan were also recognised. Check out Joe's blog at www.greentones.blogspot.com
Julian Dashper
To the Unknown New Zealander
Christchurch Art Gallery
10 August to 14 October 2007
Exhibition Poster PDF file click here.
NZ Artists in international exhibitions
Jacqueline Fahey was included in WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, USA. www.moca.org/wack/
Simon Denny was in Koln Show 2 showing at the Galerie Spruth Magers with Pere Liobera and Joao Onofre from 19 April to 26 May 2007. www.koelnshow2.com
Natalie Robinson, Douglas Bagnall and Janine Robinson exhibited in Shanghai as part of
Geomatics and Ecomatics: Three Stories
2007 Shanghai Science and Art Exposition
May 10-15 2007
Douglas Bagnall showed - Cloud Shape Classifier. Image projection and interactive software.
Janine Randerson showed- Remote senses; storms nearby. Video projections.
Natalie Robertson showed - Uncle Tasman - The Trembling Current that Scars the Earth. Three channel DVD video.
Michael Lett took part in Liste, Basel, Switzerland, with a solo project by Michael Parekowhai from 12 - 17 June 2007.
Arts Foundation of New Zealand
Award for Patronage 2007
At an event at the Auckland Art Gallery on 8 May 2007, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand presented Jenny Gibbs CNZM MA (Hons) with an award for arts patronage. Gibbs is a philanthropist and art collector whose influence has helped raise the profile of New Zealand art internationally, and within New Zealand. The Foundation awarded Gibbs NZ$20,000 to distribute to chosen recipients. Gibbs generously doubled the Foundation's gift and distributed four NZ$10,000 awards to artist Gretchen Albrecht, contemporary Auckland art gallery ARTSPACE, The New Zealand Opera School and the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
Norseweart: The New Zealand Contemporary Art Award 2007
It was announced in May 2007 that Seraphine Pick, with her work Phantom Limb, oil on linen, is the winner of the 2007 Norseweart: The New Zealand Contemporary Art Award. Selector's comments included the following notes:
"We are delighted to have awarded the $20,000 first prize to a rich and accomplished painting by Seraphine Pick, an artist working at the peak of her profession today. Merit Award Winners Peata Larkin and John McLean are both regular Norsewear entrants whose paintings this year have succeeded in achieving the perfect balance in their respective fields of abstraction and figuration, while with her Mynah Collie, Merit Award Winner Emily Valentine Bullock has given us one of those wonderful quixotic creations which have become almost a defining feature of the Norsewear. "
Best Doctoral Thesis Award- University of Auckland
Auckland based artist Simon Ingram has won an award for his doctoral thesis, Painting as Machine, at the University of Auckland. To read more, click to this link...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0704/S00067.htm
Julian Dashper
The Abstract Office shows in New York
From 24 May until 23 June 2007, Esso Gallery, New York, are showing a solo exhibition by New Zealand based
artist Julian Dashper, entitled The Abstract Office. " Dashper’s work focuses on the histories, theories and more
general or popular ideas of abstraction (in particular abstract painting), conceptualism and minimalism as a working methodology. The geographical positioning of New Zealand globally and how this country receives and disseminates visual information is also a core subject in Dashper’s work. His practice manifests itself in various forms, including paintings, unique photographs of paintings, found objects which he infuses with abstract images, various multiples plus limited
edition CD and 12” polycarbonate recordings of impromptu performances he has been involved with or heavily orchestrated. "Dashper’s art is often about thinking about art, it encourages thought which is very useful, beautiful and underrated activity.”—Mark Kirby.
The show, The Abstract Office, presents a broad survey of his work dating from 1992- 2007. Consisting of sculptures and paintings from the last 15 years this new exhibition will present for the very first time Dashper’s work in depth to a New York audience.
Julian Dashper was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1960. He lives in Auckland and travels regularly. He has been exhibiting regularly throughout New Zealand since 1980, Australia and Europe since 1992 and across America since 2001."
Simon Denny in Europe
Simon Denny is showing in Cologne with P. Llobera and J. Onofre in a Monika Sprueth and Philomene Magers exhibition called "What will be told of today tomorrow: KölnShow2". Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel, the exhibition is taking place in 18 contemporary art galleries around Cologne from 19 April until 26 May 2007.
http://www.spruethmagers.com/start.php
Paul Cullen in Melbourne
Paul Cullen has been exhibiting in Melbourne at Conical, a non profit artist run space in Fitzroy, Melbourne, committed to presenting innovative, challenging and ciritical contemporary visual art. His show, Falsework runs from 5 May until 26 May 2007.
Tom Kreisler
3 March - 13 May 2--7
Govett Brewster Art Gallery
New Plymouth
This comprehensive survey of the work of Tom Kreisler includes works from the Chartwell Collection. On the opening weekend, gallery director Rhana Devenport, curator Aaron Kreisler, writer Wystan Curnow, inaugural gallery director John Maynard and artist Terry Urbahn take part in a forum about the artist and his influence as an artist and teacher.
To see works by Tom Kreisler in the Chartwell collection: click here
Hope Street to NO-BRAINER
a kinda retrospective of John Reynolds
23 February to 23 March 2007
Dots, dashes, dragged lines, text and colour building shimmering fields. Ramp Gallery holds the first retrospective of John Reynolds in the Waikato - one of New Zealand's foremost contemporary painters. Recently referred to as 'McCahon on Ecstasy' John began his career in 1980, won the 2006 Arts Laureate, and represented New Zealand at the 2006 Sydney Biennial.
'Hope Street to NO-BRAINER' juxtaposes large wall works from the 1990s with new works, provoking dynamic conversation between the bodies of work, looking at where they overlap and where they present alternative trajectories.
With an intense feeling for language, deadpan humour, an interest in rock music and a fondness for images that are seemingly artless, under worked, or sharp edged, Reynolds combines overblown scale - billboards - with smaller observations and intimacies.
Ramp Gallery
Wintec, R Block, Gate 2, Collingwood St, Hamilton, New Zealand
To see a gallery of works by John Reynolds in the Chartwell Collection: click here
Telecom Prospect 2007
City Gallery Wellington, NZ
Until 29 April 2007
Opened on 10 February 2007 ( pictured above on opening night), at the City Gallery Wellington, Telecom Prospect features new works by New Zealanders. To see a list of artists read more here. Chartwell has helped to support the development of the public programmes for the exhibition.
Auckland Festival AK07
9 - 25 March 2007
www.aucklandfestival.co.nz for full programme details.
The third Auckland Festival hosts a range of events this year including an extended visual arts programme, curated by Natasha Beckman and a series of associated seminars by the University of Auckland's Centre for Continuing Education.
Click here to see Centre for Continuing Education programme.
Included in the AK07 Visual Arts Programme is:
- a rare outdoor screening of films by Len Lye, Tahaki Reserve, Mt Eden, 18 March, 8pm
- Windows: artists working in the windows of stores around Auckland's CBD, 9 to 16 March
- Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Te Tuhi- the mark, Pakuranga, 10 March to 25 April
- Blow: a unique installation space of visionary and imaginary worlds, combining sound, lighting, moving image, set design, object, costume and performance. BNZ Foyer, Aotea Centre, The Edge, 11 March to 24 March
- Urban Pacific: New Pacific Art 2007, Randolph St Gallery, 8 March to 7 April.
- Restless, curated by Lisa Reihana, eight challenging Maori and Pacific artists, Moving Image Centre, 10 March to 21 April
- Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial: Auckland Art Gallery, Artspace, The Gus Fisher Gallery, St Paul St, Academy Cinemas, 9 March to 3 June ( varies across venues) www.aucklandtriennial.com
Windows: Auckland Festival AK07: Artists announced
Auckland Festival’s Visual Arts Coordinator Natasha Beckman is delighted to announce, on behalf of Auckland Festival, AK07, the confirmed artists and shops for the Windows project. “Three international artists will be joining a range of Auckland and New Zealand-based artists in producing work across a diverse range of disciplines over the first week of the festival. Both ourselves and the local participating retailers are very excited about the calibre of proposals which have been submitted,” she explains.
Invited international artists include: Aboriginal multimedia artist Jenny Fraser, who will execute an installation in Westpac on Queen Street. Brisbane-based, Japanese-born Hiromi Tango will develop an installation featuring items she collects from the Auckland public in the window of Urban Loft on Customs Street. Sydney-based artist Hayden Fowler will collaborate with local tattoo artists who will create a large diorama of a huia bird on his torso in Crane Brothers on High St.
Other New Zealand artists participating in Windows are Dunedin-based artist Angela Singer who will make a home for her taxidermy diorama in the window of Scotties on Lorne St. Whanganui artist Andrea Du Chatenier will be installing her work in Mardell on High Street. Christina Read, recent winner of the National Drawing Award, will be creating a sculptural installation in Whitcoulls on Queen Street alongside fellow Auckland artist John Lyall. Jessica Pearless will take residence in Pierucci in Chaucery and Harvey Benge will be setting up his studio in the window of WORLDMAN on High Street.
Windows, as the major visual arts project curated by Auckland Festival, AK07, allows a peek into the often concealed artistic process by placing artists in a somewhat unlikely yet familiar environment. The installation will begin on the 9th of March with a finalé taking place on the 16th of March from 5pm to 7pm. Auckland City will provide a platform for public feedback and those who share their opinion will have the chance to enter the draw for a $1000 cash prize. Conditions will be publicised on the website.
Windows is brought to you with the generous support of the Chartwell Trust, Heart of the City, Auckland City and Media1.
Venue: Participating Queen St and CBD shop Windows
Dates: Fri 9 to Fri 16 March, during business hours
Finalé: Fri 16 March 5pm to 7pm
Price: FREE
Website: www.aucklandfestival.co.nz
