Andrew McLeod, Tuck Up, 2004
The Wallace Trust Feature Artwork
TheNewDowse is proud to be a partner of the James Wallace Arts Trust. As well as hosting the Annual Wallace Art Awards, TheNewDowse features a work drawn from the James Wallace Arts Trust every three to four months.
Andrew McLeod, Tuck Up, 2004
"Entering the world of Andrew McLeod’s painting is akin to Alice stepping into the rabbit hole, you never know where it might take you. His paintings and digital works are full of portentous and domestic objects comfortably inhabiting the same terrain; a curious amalgam of symbols and images from sources as diverse as nursery rhymes, science textbooks, architectural sketches, New Zealand’s visual history, and his surroundings"
- Sarah Farrar, from Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand.
Find out more information on Andrew's work see http://www.andrewmcleod.co.nz/
Roke 3, Gregor Kregar
Previously Featured Works
Roke 3, Gregor Kregar
Gregor Kregar (1972) has forged a reputation as a sculptor who is as fastidious as he is expansive in his practice. Kregar’s work is labour intensive and impressive is its scale and its visual impact. He is an artist who replicates the everyday world and adds a twist; familiar objects balloon into the sublime as his use of repetition, scale, and colour forge new meanings to familiar objects.
"My work is not confined to a single medium or material. In my sculptural practice I combine a wide variety of materials such as ceramic, glass, bronze, steel, wood, video and photography. I use familiar objects as subject matter such as television sets, bottles, inorganic rubbish, body parts and live animals. I am interested in how the familiar can be represented in a way that displaces the original meaning and imbues the subject with new and unfamiliar meanings. My work deals with issues of ambiguity and the uncanny, yet it is strongly connected to the social, economic and political environment I live in."(1)
“I would question the romantic notion of the inspired artist. What I make is connected to my life, society, and people - it is part of what I do and who I am. My birth has been the most significant event affecting my work so far. I work with a range of materials depending on the conceptual nature of the work. As an artist I am influenced more by continuous everyday experience than by any specific artists.”(2)
The Young Designers,
Bill Hammond, 1989
Acrylic on wallpaper (diptych)
The Young Designers by Bill Hammond, 1989.
Bill Hammond (b 1947) is one of New Zealand's most exciting contemporary artists. He attended the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts from 1966 to 1968. It wasn’t, however, until 1980 that he began exhibiting his paintings. It didn’t take long for the New Zealand art community to take notice.
Hammond is known for his “distinctively individualistic ‘take’ on life, reflecting all its materialistic, aggressive, citified chaos, with inanimate objects seeming to take on a life of their own. In the mid-1980s his works, painted on anything from metal to wallpaper, from canvas to Holland blinds, often contained challenging scenarios of aggression, crime, violence and threat, featuring characters reminiscent of 1990s comic strips. Their detail rewards close scrutiny.”
Hammond won the Paramount Award in the 1994 Annual Wallace Art Awards with his seminal work Watching for Buller. This achievement helped boost his career and the work was incorporated into The James Wallace Arts Trust’s Collection adding to the Hammonds the Trust had already collected over the years.
Courtesy of NZ-Artists (www.nz-artists.co.nz)
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