Föenander Gallery, Auckland, April 2021
Field Trip, is a departure and return to earlier art making practices surrounding figurative narratives in the landscape and surreal worlds. This is combined with my familiar style of solid flat colour where still-life and fragments of landscape take centre stage within a geometric environment.
This exhibition follows an artist residency in Karekare, West Auckland in 2020. This west-coast location presented me with a unique opportunity to observe and draw the unique coastline and it’s environs. I began a ‘Plein Air’ approach while also looking at historic pre-photographic techniques as a means of rediscovering the landscape and artists who have depicted it. ‘This was a time of reflection’ with a makeshift ‘Claude Glass’ or black mirror.
NKB Summer Exhibition
6 – 24 December 2018
Finalist – Wallace Art Awards - 2018
TSB Wallace Arts Centre
Pah Homestead, Auckland
Finalist in 28th The Arts House Trust Awards, 2019
Private collection
5 May – 17 June 2018
Exhibiting works from Tylee Cottage residency show ‘Minimal Wave’ 2013. This exhibit also shows paintings and works on paper produced between 2009 to 2016. ‘Minimal Wave Revisited’ shows the development from an investigative approach, to a formulist method of painting.
NKB Gallery, Auckland
Article: ‘Sporting Chance’ by Don Abbott
Art New Zealand, Number 159, Spring 2016
Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. 16 November – 2 March 2014
Works from the Tylee Cottage Artist-in-Residence.
Minimal Wave Catalogue
Essay by Greg Donson
