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Walters Prize 2006 announcements
Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki
Francis Upritchard has won the 2006 Walters Prize. She was nominated for Doomed, Doomed All Doomed 2005. Stella Brennan was nominated for Wet Social Sculpture 2005, Phil Dadson for Polar Projects 2004 and Peter Robinson for The Humours 2005. Works will be in exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki New Gallery, from 2 September to 19 November 2006.
Judge's comments: click here
To view Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's interview on Breakfast TV
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488124/842260
The judge's interview with Lynn Freeman, National Radio's Arts On Sunday
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/artsonsunday
Stella Brennan's (www.stella.net.nz) interview with Mikey Havoc, bFM's Breakfast show, 3 October
www.95bfm.com/default,18,bcasts.sm?cast=3854
Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
To view works by Upritchard in the Chartwell Collection: click here
Trans Versa: Conversing across the South
4 October- 5 November 2006, Santiago, Chile.
A South Project initiative.
TRANS VERSA: CONVERSING ACROSS THE SOUTH, supported by the Chartwell Trust, is a cultural project arising from the flow, connectivity and interchange of Australian and New Zealand artists with Chile. Developing from the vision to engage and connect artists and audiences with art and in dialogues addressing our cultures, TRANS VERSA supports artists to respond to the locale of Santiago and culminates with work made during the project exhibited in significant organizations in Chile. Their works consider the changing flows (one way and reciprocal) between and within our countries. The exhibitions are held at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Galería Metropolitana and centro cultural matucana 100. Artists involved include Brook Andrew, David Clegg (NZ), Lonnie Hutchinson (NZ), Fiona Jack, (NZ), Ash Keating, Maddie Leech (NZ), Andrew McQualter, Daniel Malone (NZ), Dane Mitchell (NZ), Tom Nicholson, Selina Ou, Raquel Ormella. Read more
Curators: Zara Stanhope and Danae Mossman: Read more
McCahon House opens to the public: The Titirangi Years
From 1953 Colin McCahon, his wife Anne and their four children William, Victoria, Catherine and Matthew, lived in a small house at 67 Otitori Bay Road, Titirangi, until they moved to Partridge Street, Arch Hill in 1960.
McCahon made many alterations to the house in the years that the family lived there; some further changes were made after the McCahons left; but to a surprising extent the house has been preserved much as it was in 1960.
The McCahon House Trust (with the support of the Waitakere City Council) has elected to purchase and preserve the house, partly in honour of Colin McCahon’s achievements as an artist during the years that he lived there, and partly because it is a highly characteristic example of the kind of dwelling—the weekend bach—that was very common half a century ago in places like Titirangi but which seldom survives in original condition today. The French Bay House represents a unique piece of cultural and social history.
67 Otitori Bay Road
French Bay
Titirangi
Titirangi is a village nestled in the foothills of the beautiful.
The McCahon House is open to the public the following hours:
Wednesday/Saturday/Sunday 10am - 2pm.
Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Waitakere Ranges just thirty minutes drive to the west of the Auckland CBD.
Further information on: http://www.mccahonhouse.org.nz/house/
Emily Kame Kngawerre Exhibition
Ten Years On
2 Danks Street Waterloo NSW 2017
New Zealand artists at the Sydney Biennale 2006
Zones of Contact: 8 June to 27 August 2006
"The Conch" directed by Nina Nawalowalo
Biennale Report: Tuesday 30 May, 2006
THE LAND OF THE LONG WHITE CLOUD JOINS THE LIST OF INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS FOR THE SYDNEY BIENNALE
New Zealand artists feature highly in this year's Sydney Biennale and the unique talents and voices of our neighbouring nation will engage you, inspire you and perhaps even raise a smileŠ.!
Rachael Rakena and Brett Graham collaborate in a special installation for the MCA entitled "U.F.O.B" - a play on the idea of aliens, along with a serious critique of Polynesian migration. Amidst suspended objects like hovercraft, visitors will look up through glass windows to trace a journey of Maori and Pacific Islanders from idyllic origins to a Sydney beach (see pic - high res version available on request).
Painter John Reynolds plays with the idea of New Zealand as the 'land of the long white cloud' at AGNSW and Stella Brennan challenges our ideas about video art. In a magical performance at the Sydney Opera House entitled Vula, a flooded stage lit with the movements, songs and storytelling of Pacific Island women will entrance audiences as it muses on the sensual relationship between Pacific island women and the sea.
John Reynolds, right, with ABC broadcaster Alan Saunders, left, and Biennale curator Chareles Merewether, centre, at the official AGNSW opening, 7 June 2006.
2006 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists' Residency
Information from Ioan McNaughton, Creative New Zealand.
New Zealand artist Mladen Bizumic is the recipient of the 2006 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists’ Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The 12-month residency begins in August 2006. Bizumic, who divides his time between Auckland and Vienna, will use the residency to create new work, at the same time strengthening his connections with artists, curators and gallerists in Berlin.
His work will focus on the relationship between people and their surroundings, dealing with the green areas of Berlin and its seven sister cities (Budapest, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and Warsaw), all of which he plans to visit either before or during the residency.
“I can’t wait to start on Seven Sister Cities, which is probably the most ambitious project I’ve ever undertaken,” Bizumic says. “It is a multi-screen video installation based on the physically impossible idea of being in seven different places around the globe at the same time.”
Founded in 1974, Künstlerhaus Bethanien has hosted more than 400 artists from 30 countries since that time. Bizumic will be the fourth New Zealand artist to take up the biennial residency, which the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand has offered since 2000.
Bizumic describes Berlin is “an ideal place” for him to work for twelve months. “The city is buzzing with creative energy, new museums and cutting-edge galleries. Many international curators, writers, musicians and artists live and work in Berlin. I’m particularly excited to be given this opportunity because the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a great set-up for artists to work full-time on their projects with no distractions.”
Bizumic, whose work has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally, graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts (1st Class Honours) from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. In the past year, he has presented works in several large exhibitions in Europe, including Re: Modern at Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Art-fair at Art Cologne; and Playground at ARTplay - Architecture and Design Centre in Moscow.
In January, he had a two-person exhibition called Superstructure Doubled at Korridor Artspace in Berlin and this month, his solo show, The Crystal Memorial, featured at Charim Gallery in Vienna.
He is also one of 14 New Zealanders whose work features in High Tide: new currents in contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand. The 2006 exhibition opened this month at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland and will travel to the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Bizumic is represented by the Sue Crockford Gallery in Auckland and the Charim Galerie in Vienna. His work is held in many New Zealand public and private collections, including the Chartwell Collection/Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Te Papa - The Museum of New Zealand, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, University of Auckland Collection and the University of Otago Collection.
In 2003, Bizumic was an artist-in-residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth and in 2004, he was the recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago.
NZ Arts Foundation Laureate Awards 2005
From left to right: Neil Ieremia, Bill Manhire, Ronnie van Hout, Simon O'Neill, Julia Morison.
Christchurch based artist and lecturer Julia Morison and Melbourne based artist Ronnie Van Hout are two of the five artists named as Arts Laureates for 2005. The other recipients are tenor Simon O'Neill, poet Bill Manhire and choreographer Neil Ieremia. They all receive NZ$50,000. Previous arts laureate visual arts winners include Peter Peryer, Michael Parekowhai, Phil Dadson, Warwick Freeman, Neil Dawson, Ann Robinson and John Pule.
To see works in the Chartwell Collection by Ronnie van Hout,
click here.
Wallace Art Awards 2005
Sara Hughes, Download, 2005
Sara Hughes was awarded the Paramount Prize at the 2005 Wallace Art Awards in September. The Award consists of $35,000 cash prise, a UK Residency in association, and a bronze trophy by Terry Stringer. Sara Hughes will hold a solo exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery in May 2006.
New Zealand Photography News Update
from McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
from McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Click here for the Gallery Letter updating exhibition information on NZ photographers.
Et Al.
"De Nieuwe Stem"
15 September - 8 October, 2005
Yuill/Crowley Gallery
5th Floor, 4-14 Foster Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Australia
Francis Upritchard
September 9 - October 8, 2005
Gallery 2
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24th St, New York, NY 10011
In conjunction with an exhibition at Salon 94, NY
For information and writing on this exhibition, go to:
http://www.andrearosengallery.com
Julian Dashper
Midwestern Unlike You and Me
Julian Dashper, Untitled (The Warriors)
Vinyl on drumheads with junior drum kit
1998
Image thanks to Sioux City Art Center website
New Zealand's Julian Dashper has a 25 year retrospective exhibition currently showing at the Sioux City Art Center.
Curated by Christopher Cook and David Raskin.
The exhibition closes 6 November 2005 and tours to:
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 14 - March 26, 2006
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas, August 24 - October 15, 2006
For installation images and more information:
http://www.siouxcityartcenter.org/exhibitions/introduction.asp?key=111
Auckland, New Zealand: Sue Crockford Gallery
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale
The installation of work by Et Al. is at Calle della Pieta, off Riva degli Schiavoni, behind S. Maria della Pieta church, Castello, 3703/a
12 June - 6 November 2005.
Sculpture Symposium, Auckland Museum, May 2005
Issues discussed relating to artists, artworks, patronage, practical issues, community, symbolic aspects of sculpture in Auckland. Chaired by Dr Rodney Wilson.
May 9: Current Explorations, journeys and discoveries in sculpture - exposure of current work and creative processes.
May 11: Surviving as a sculptor: Practical Issues.
May 13: Helping sculptors survive: Practical Issues.
May 16: Sculpting Society:Collaboration between artists and community.
May 18: Sculpture as metaphor:Reading Auckland's identity through symbol.
May 20: Panel Discussion chaired by Dr Rodney Wilson, Director, Auckland Museum.
All sessions 3-5pm. Contact nbeckman@aucklandmuseum.com
Sara Hughes and Steve Carr win awards, April 2005
Described as New Zealand's richest multimedia art award, The Norsewear Art Award is an annual national award for contemporary New Zealand art, with new categories in 2005 to better reflect the changing face of contemporary art. The overall winner in the 2D category was Sara Hughes.
Sara Hughes, Lost in Space, 2005
Acrylic on linen. 1800 x 1800 mm
Photo Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
In the 3D category the winner was Steve Carr.
Steve Carr, Cherries, 2004
scientific glass
100 x 80 x 30mm each
Photo: Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
Steve Carr commented, in an artist's statement that, " ‘Cherries’ are a celebration of romance and nostalgia, like spring blossoms, family Christmas’s and the innocence of childhood. They are made from scientifically blown glass, which references chemistry and architecture whilst still conjuring up notions of the ornament and memento.
This duality also challenges the space between art and craft, bringing together the minimalist traditions of contemporary sculpture with the skill and beauty of glass work. The scale is one to one to remain delicate yet still accentuate the shift from real to replica.
The fragility of the medium implicates the viewer in their negotiation of the surrounding space and the pleasures and dangers associated with the potential breakage." (Steve Carr 03.03.05)
Both artists were awarded NZ$22,000. The exhibition was at the Hawke's Bay Exhibition Centre, 201 Eastbourne Street, Hastings until 8 May 2005.
Sara Hughes commented after the award announcement, "It is fantastic to be chosen as the winner of the 2D section of the Noreswear Art Award, it is great recognition and the prize money will really help financially to develop ideas I have for new work."
She reports that a March 2005 exhibition at Criterian Gallery, Tasmania, Australia, was in conjunction with Australian artist Meg Keating. Both artists share interests in working with paper cuts and as Hughes commented, "the works had an interesting dialogue around ideas of cutouts, stencils, hand vs machine etc."
Sara has also just completed a major commission entitled Garden for Joseph, for the new Darling Island Apartments in Pyrmont, Sydney.
Sara Hughes, Darling Island, Main Lobby.
Photo Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland,NZ
The World is Your Studio, Julian Dashper/John Nixon, Gus Fisher Gallery, Shortland St, Auckland.
Opening: Friday 19 November 2004
Exhibition dates: Sat 20 November- 23 December
Reopens in 2005: 10 Jan - 22 January 2005
Curator Ben Curnow, who returned from Australia to New Zealand about twelve months ago, curated this exhibition of work by Auckland based artist Julian Dashper and Melbourne based artist John Nixon. It was the third trans-Tasman exhibition Curnow has been involved in recently, as he curated New New Zealand Art in Sydney and an exhibition at Canary Gallery, Auckland of photographers from Australia and New Zealand. Both artists are interested in the studio and how it operates as a changing space, an archive, a place to make work, a place for storage and the studio as subject matter itself.
The two artists also used the gallery space as if it was a studio- to contemplate a body of work or to compile and arrange work.
Dashper commented that in his latest work he has started to use the studio as the subject matter, taking a series of audio recordings as he moves in and out of his studio door, and in and out of his New York gallery doors. He asks us to decide which has the most value - the studio or the gallery?
Chartwell Collection trustee Rob Gardiner spoke at the exhibition opening. A catalogue will be produced to accompany the exhibition.
Rob Gardiner and John Nixon (left) at ACCA, Melbourne, 2004.
November Exhibition, Andrew McLeod and Liz Maw: Parabiosis.
Andrew McLeod and Liz Maw, both artists represented in the Chartwell Collection, show new work at Ivan Anthony Gallery, Level 1 , 312 Karangahape Rd, Newton, Auckland, NZ, until November 24.
Search the Chartwell Collection to find works by these artists.
Robert Storr in New Zealand
The Walters Prize judge 2004, Robert Storr gave a lecture at the Auckland Art Gallery auditorium on Thursday 28 October. For a summary of some of the main points covered in his lecture, click here
New books
Published on the New Zealand artist Michael Smither.
Michael Smither
Text by Trish Gribben; and essays by Jim Barr, Nary Barr, Justin Paton.
Four decades of paintings.
250 full colour images, 276 pages, 297 x 280mm.
With My Little Eye-What Michael Smither Sees
For young children.
20 Michael Smither paintings.
Words by Trish Gribben.
Also a short biography and the artist's own words about each painting.
64 pages, full colour.
Available at Parsons Bookshop in Auckland, 26 Wellesley Street East
Auckland,New Zealand
Ph 64 9 3031557, Fax 64 9 3570877, Mobile 021 2483869
HelenParsons@artcardsandposters.co.nz
Search the Chartwell Collection to find works by this artist.
John Nixon at ACCA
Australian artist John Nixon, who exhibits extensively internationally and has works in the Chartwell Collection, showed a major exhibition of his work from the past three years at ACCA - The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art- from 28 May 2004 to 25 July 2004. There is a catalogue.
John Nixon's installation at ACCA, Melbourne, 2004
To see John Nixon's works in the Chartwell collection dating from 1987 - 2002 click here and go to detailed search, entering John Nixon and Chartwell Collection.
Public/Private: Tumatanui/Tumataiti
The Second Auckland Triennial, 2004
Chartwell was a supporter of the 2nd Auckland Triennial which is showing at the New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand until 30 May 2004.
Curated by Ngahiraka Mason and Ewen McDonald, the Triennial is also on show at The University of Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery and George Fraser Gallery as well as Artspace in Karangahape Rd.
To see more: Check out the website
Artist in Residence Programme
The New Plymouth based Govett Brewster Gallery runs an ongoing Artist in Residence Programme, with the support of Creative New Zealand. In partnership with the Western Institute of Technology (WITT), the gallery hosts artists from New Zealand, the Pacific Rim and occasionally hosts artists from further afield.
The 2004 Govett Brewster Gallery's Artist in Residence is phtographer Ann Shelton. Shelton, a graduate of the prestigious MFA photography program at the University of British Columbia, is a senior lecturer in the School of Visual Arts at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland University at Manukau. She will be giving an Artist in Residence lecture about her practice at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery at 6.00pm on Tuesday 15 June.
Upcoming artists to be involved with the programme include Korean born artist Lee Bull.
Shelton's work is represented in the Chartwell Collection with:
Laudanum, Minnie Dean's unmarked grave, Winton Cemetery, Southland, New Zealand
Ann Shelton (New Zealand, b.1967)
Medium type C print
Date 2001
Shelton's latest exhibition is
Vacant Possession
Dates: June 4 - 30 2004
Venue: McNamara Gallery
190 Wicksteed St
Wanganui
New Zealand.
email: mcnamaraphotogal@xtra.co.nz
Vacant Possession is the title of a Janet Frame poem from her collection, The Pocket Mirror, 1967 [George Braziller, New York]
Jonathan Organ exhibits in Christchurch
Auckland based artist Jonathon Organ, who has work in the Chartwell Collection, exhibited I ME MINE at the High Street project Christchurch from 19 May - 5 June 2004.
Notes the gallery:
"Black on black on black. Layers of fine wash build up the monochromatic surface of Organ's abstract works. Following the minimalist tradition of simplicity, calm and subtle nuance, his paintings are stripped bare of all excess, so that nothing trivial or unnecessary remains. Kant, in his Critique of Judgement describes this state as 'free beauty', which presupposes that there is no concept of what the object should be. With no obviously evocative content to dictate response, it is the viewer who creates his or her reality or utopia.
The depth of layers build a degree of reflectiveness as luminosity steps in to help create and accentuate the voids that exist between abstract elements. For Organ it is in these liminal spaces, in the gaps between, that each work invites the viewer to become a participant. "The completion of the painting rests in the meaning that the viewer obtains from it" (Organ).
I ME MINE, the second show of HSP's utopias series, in which artists were asked to explore a more personalised vision of utopia, extends this invitation of exploration further, to each viewer. A phenomenon known as 'sense-datum', described as the immediate sensory perception of all objects, recognises the ability of the viewer to go beyond what is visually present in the work and construct their own unique interpretation."
Details and HSP website: http://www.hsp.org.nz/
Jonathon Organ's work in the Chartwell Collection:
Anechoic Zone
Jonathan Organ (New Zealand, b.1973)
Medium acrylic on linen
Date 2001
Mediarena breaks exhibition records
Chartwell was an exhibition sponsor for Mediarena: Contemporary Art from Japan at the Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ. The gallery reports that nearly 17,000 people have visited the exhibition and its associated nationwide events. The exhibition surveys Japanese art from the last 30 years with a special focus on the high level of digital animation and interactive work being produced today and is on target to be the most popular in the Gallery's 35 year history. It closed on Monday 7 June 2004.
"The high visitor numbers to this exhibition put it in the blockbuster category, particularly when you consider the population of New Plymouth and its isolation from the other major centres," said Gallery Director and co-curator of Mediarena, Gregory Burke. "What is also significant is the length of the visit with many spending several hours in the exhibition."
Sixty six per cent of visitors to the Gallery have come from outside the New Plymouth district since the exhibition opened on March 13, while 18% are from overseas. "This is significant for the region and highlights the pulling power of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery's exhibition programme," said Mr Burke.
The 2003 Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand.
It was announced on 13 September 2003, that Jeffrey Harris, who has a number of works in the Chartwell Collection and early in his career exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, NZ, won the $35,000 paramount prize in the 12th annual Wallace Art Awards. Winning a new category, the development prize, was Dunedin based artist Scott Eady. Scott's work is highlighted in our Featured Works section. He has won a three month residency at the New York International Studio and Curatorial Programme in Manhattan. Congratulations to these two artists.
The Sky’s The Limit
Fiona Banner, Daniela Brahm, Tobias & Raphael Danke, David Hatcher, Andrew McLeod, Peter Robinson, Yvonne Todd
Curated by Astrid Mania, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
20 September - 7 November 2003
“The Sky’s The Limit” is a term that is used when speaking of goals, dreams and achievements that reach beyond all boundaries. Here it is used literally in the opposite way: The Sky Is The Limit. There are limits to human understanding, particularly when it comes to scientific hypotheses and philosophical concepts that can neither be proven right or wrong. The exhibition explores these boundaries of comprehension. more
For exhibition installation photographs, by Roland Schmidt.
Home Sweet Home: The Fay Collection
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, ACT
Australia
11 October 2003 - 18 January 2004
Exhibiting 249 works from the Fay Collection, this exhibition celebrates the diversity of the Fay Collection - a private collection of Australian and New Zealand art which has been passionately developed by Sydney based artist Peter Fay over many years. The exhibition marks the donation of a substantial part of the collection to the National Gallery of Australia.
“This exhibition of works from the Peter Fay collection reveals the passions of a collector who, since the 1980s, has supported emerging artists from Australia and New Zealand and has watched their careers develop. It shows how the Peter Fay collection has broadened from paintings to include diverse media such as object-based works, as well as ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ art, illustrating the dialogues between the two.”
The exhibition is touring throughout Australia in 2004.
Visit the website: www.nga.gov.au
