by Sue on 18 October 2012
Thumbnail image: (Detail) Words Fail, 2011
Plans are underway for a tour of the hugely popular survey exhibition, Other Stories Stone Works: 2002 - 2012, by Joe Sheehan, an initiative of Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand. Some fifty works from both private and public collections have been...
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by Melanie on 14 October 2012
Congratulations to Inhouse, who were recently awarded a Bronze at the Best Awards for the publication they designed for the Made Active exhibition.
Design Director - Arch MacDonnell
Design Team - Toby Curnow, Sarah Gladwell
Contributors - Jennifer French
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by Melanie on 14 October 2012
John Ward Knox, who has work in the Chartwell Collection (view here), is currently exhibiting in Frankfurt as part of the NZ exhibitions in association with the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair.
His work, No title, 2012, neon, is installed at the Frankfurter Kunstverein as part of the group exhibition...
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by Melanie on 01 October 2012
Coming up to the end of its 38th year of collecting contemporary New Zealand and Australian art – with some other international additions, it has been timely to look at the latest of acquisitions in 2012 and the very first ones in 1974.
The first work to enter the collection that year was...
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by Melanie on 30 September 2012
A video by Public Works Media showcasing the artworks as part of Reflect, a lighting journey of discovery across Auckland's central city waterfront held 20-22 and 26-29 July 2012, featuring works from the Chartwell Collection by Clinton Watkins and Héctor Zamora.
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by Melanie on 09 September 2012
Watermarking
David Bennewith, William Hsu and Marnie Slater
Curated by Melanie Oliver and Laura Preston
Liverpool Biennial 2012
15 September - 25 November 2012
www.wellingtoncitystates.info
The Liverpool Biennial, the United Kingdom’s largest international contemporary art festival, is...
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by Melanie on 30 July 2012
A free bus service from Mangere to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki will operate every Saturday in August. The bus service is provided to visitors of the Gallery thanks to the generosity of long-time Gallery supporters, the Chartwell Trust.
‘The Chartwell Trust has created an...
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by Melanie on 23 July 2012
Chartwell wants to thank curator Natasha Conland and all of the artists of Made Active, which closed last weekend.
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by Amy Howden Chapman on 18 July 2012
Image: Made in L.A. 2012. Works by Cody Trepte. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. June 2-September 2, 2012. Photography by Brian Forrest.
Made in LA 2012, the inaugural Los Angeles Biennial which features work by sixty artists is currently on show in three institutions across...
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by Melanie on 28 May 2012
Francis Upritchard: A Long Wait
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
May - September 2012
www.contemporaryartscenter.org
Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, USA) is currently showing A Long Wait, London-based NZ artist Francis Upritchard's first museum exhibition in the United States....
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by Sue on 20 May 2012
Movement is everywhere in Made Active whether it be implied, anticipated or actual. Like The Spider, by Alexander Calder in the Degas to Dali exhibition, movement can often be enhanced by a sense of shadow playing on the gallery wall- Ian Burns' use of wires and lights create an active shadow play...
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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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