Cultured Conversations with Sue Gardiner

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Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and creative thinking for our future and our wellbeing.

Seeing

Chartwell is an explorer of the visual world. We want to know more about how and what we see. When both the eye and the mind are active, the creative process opens to the artist and viewer. The Chartwell Collection provides the viewer many examples of creative visual thought in action.

Making

Chartwell supports artists as they make and think. Making is an active and connected process, involving the interaction of intention, intuition and intellect with the mediums of the world. Chartwell is making too - making a difference through philanthropy and enabling access to creative activities and research.

Thinking

Chartwell encourages everyone to think about art and the creative process with a commitment to drive an understanding about the significance of the visual arts to general creative thinking. We share a curiosity to know and learn more: an imaginative, ongoing investigation.

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By Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki — 31 January 2021

Co-Director of the Chartwell Collection, Sue Gardiner and Director of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Kirsten Lacy.

Cultured Conversations is a digital series produced by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Exploring issues and ideas from the cultural sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, this series is hosted by Gallery Director, Kirsten Lacy, and invites exceptional leaders from arts, philanthropy, economics and politics to discuss topical issues facing the sector today.

A passionate advocate of the arts, Sue Gardiner (MNZM) is a Trustee of the Chartwell Trust, a New Zealand charitable philanthropic trust, which supports the visual arts and knowledge about the creative process. Sue is also co-Director of the Chartwell Collection, a major public collection of New Zealand and Australian contemporary art held on long-term loan at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Sue is a well-known advocate for arts access and education, engagement, philanthropy, fundraising, arts governance, and promoting art through national and international art tours.

Filmed in January 2021, this episode of ‘Cultured Conversations’ is part of a digital series produced by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and hosted by Gallery Director, Kirsten Lacy. It invites exceptional leaders from arts, philanthropy, economics and politics to discuss the topical issues facing us all today.