by Sue on 09 September 2019
Chartwell is supporting another year of the annual New Artists Show at Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland. Titled 4/4, this year it features the works of Daniel John Corbett Sanders, Anh Trần, Severine Costa and Xander Dixon.
Artspace Aotearoa also introduces new writing for 4/4 - from Owen Connors,...
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by Sue on 09 September 2019
Australian artist Ian Fairweather is represented in the Chartwell Collection with the 1963 work, Nebula, synthetic polymer paint and gouache on cardboard on composition board.
http://www.chartwell.org.nz/Collection/ArtworkDetails/artwork/149/title/nebula.aspx
Now, a new book is due to be...
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by Sue on 09 September 2019
With the opening of A Place to Paint - Colin McCahon in Auckland, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki until January 2020, three major works in the Chartwell Collection by Colin McCahon are now on show. They represent a fascinating history of collecting McCahon's works - all being acquired...
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by Sue on 28 August 2019
The Chartwell Trust wants more people to understand and value the arts in their lives...to exercise their creative brains...to visit art galleries to see how artists engage in creative visual thinking and demonstrate to us all how they think and see and make in their world. We want to not only...
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by Megan on 29 July 2019
Split Level View Finder: Theo Schoon and New Zealand Art
City Gallery Wellington, Open until November 3 2019
Done up in pins and curlers, Theo Schoon, oil and ink on paper, 610 x 480mm, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2013.
Seven Theo Schoon works from the...
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by Megan on 03 July 2019
Painting Politics Symposium
26th-27th July, Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium
A TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
On the one hand art is often characterised as the domain of inwardness and subjectivity and on the other politics is...
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by Megan on 14 June 2019
Sue Gardiner, Co-Director of Chartwell Collection awarded Member of New Zealand Order of Merit in 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Congratulations to all those honoured with the New Zealand Order of Merit this year including our very own Sue Gardiner for 'Services to the Arts'. Sue is the co-Director...
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by Megan on 27 May 2019
Philanthropy New Zealand Summit 2019
The Future of Trust, Te pono, te tika, te māramatanga me te aroha anō o tētehi ki tētehi, Te Papa, Wellington, 15-17 May 2019.
Philanthropy New Zealand holds the 'The Philanthropy Summit' conference every two years and brings together funders, investors,...
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by Megan on 01 May 2019
Auckland Art Fair 2019
Opening Night: Wednesday 1 May, 5-9pm
General Entry: Thursday 2 May - Sunday 5 May
www.artfair.co.nz
PĀNiA! at the Auckland Art Fair
Chartwell is proud to support PĀNiA!s Nounman at the 2019 Auckland Art Fair in association with Mokopōpaki and Francis McWhannell. This...
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by Megan on 23 April 2019
23 February 2019 - 9 June 2019
Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Upoko Wairua, Souvenirs of Time, 1988. Oil on canvas, 225 x 454mm. Chartwell Collection
Michael Shepherd: Reinventing History Painting is the first major retrospective exhibition of Michael Shepherd's career,...
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by Hannah on 14 April 2019
15 December 2018 – 28 April 2019
Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Installation view of The Founder's Paradox at Michael Lett Gallery, 18 November - 22 December 2017
Simon Denny’s work, Operation, 2017, in the Chartwell Collection, is on show at Christchurch...
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by Sue on 31 March 2019
Chartwell is saddened to learn of the passing of artist Bill Culbert in March 2019. Bill exhibited at Chartwell's Centre for Contemporary Art, in Hamilton, New Zealand, along with Ralph Hotere, in 1992 and Chartwell holds significant works in the Collection. One of these works, Light Plain, 1997,...
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by Sue on 29 November 2018
ConnieBrown_Chartwell winning essay_2018.pdf
Congratulations to Connie Brown who is the winner of the 2018 Chartwell Trust Student Art Writing Prize, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington.
She wrote about her response to Nova Paul's 2010 film, This Is Not Dying, offering a vivid...
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by Sue on 29 November 2018
Ralph Hotere's magnificent work, Godwit/Kuaka 1977, lacquer on hardboard, returns to show to the Auckland Art Gallery. Commissioned originally by Auckland International Airport for the Arrivals Hall of the Jean Batten Terminal Building in 1977, the work is now in the Chartwell Collection and is a...
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by Sue on 29 October 2018
Sue Gardiner, of the Chartwell Collection and Sonja Hawkins of My Art discuss art collecting with Lynn Freeman on Radio New Zealand National.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018668681/the-art-of-art-collection
Sunday 28 October 2018
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by Sue on 15 June 2018
Chartwell acknowledges the work and life of artist Milan Mrkusich and treasures works by the artist in the Collection, such as Journey One (Second Version) 1986, which has hung in exhibitions in Hamilton, Auckland and Wellington.
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by Serena on 04 May 2018
McCahon House and Webb's presents Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique. A film with live musical performance - Uriel Barthélémi and Taro Shinoda
This performance is strictly a two-day season, as a part of the Auckland Art Fair
Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique is a film by...
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by Serena on 08 March 2018
Exhibition details: Other People Think: Auckland’s Contemporary International Collection When: Saturday 10 March to Sunday 10 June 2018
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki offers fresh insights into its remarkable international collection in a new exhibition, Other People Think:...
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by Serena on 27 October 2017
For more information:
http://teaspoonoflight.com/
An interview with Peter and Cait O'Connor:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018618849/a-teaspoon-of-light-with-peter-and-cait-o-connor
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by Serena on 19 October 2017
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki presents an exhibition by one of New Zealand’s most internationally renowned artists, Michael Stevenson, from Sunday 12 November 2017 to Sunday 6 February 2018
Thiel's Chair, in Serene Velocity in Practise: MC510 & CS183
Serene Velocity...
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