#Dunedin Public Art Gallery

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Dunedin

One of New Zealand’s original five major cities (along with Auckland, Christchurch, Nelson and Wellington), Dunedin has claim to be the best of them to visit as a tourist. It has it all, a beautiful setting, plenty of heritage, wonderful gardens, native wildlife, great museums, and good places to eat, all in a compact city of ~105,000 people. To start just outside of the city though with Otago…

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Joe L’Estrange was born in 1960 in Ōamaru, New Zealand, the birthplace of Janet Frame, but has lived in Dunedin since 1973. She graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts from Dunedin School of Art in 1980. Her grandparents owned a house in Concord, and she has often painted her local neighbourhoods of Concord, Caversham, and now Corstorphine, where she currently lives high up on a hill.

In 1992, on her thirty-second birthday, L’Estrange won the Adam Portraiture Award with the painting Georgiana, judged by artist Shona McFarlane. With the $10,000 prize money, she bought her first house, by the motorway in Caversham, a working-class Dunedin suburb. Back then, she described herself as a "purely-what-the-eye-sees person, and that’s terribly out of fashion". But realism is never out of fashion, just out of the way, like Caversham. Representational art is timeless.

As an artist, L’Estrange has been described both as an enigma and as Dunedin’s worst-kept best-kept secret. I’m told she hates symbols and is allergic to ‘isms’. Her professional CV includes only a few wayfaring stops outside Dunedin: Balclutha and Whakatāne, Auckland and Wellington. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/dunedins-cat-lady

“There are numerous artists who have painted flowers and gardens, but not many who have articulated these with the level of hypnotic intensity, delicacy, spatial complexity and energy that is evidenced in L’Estrange’s paintings.

“Everything L’Estrange paints has a potency about it, even if it’s a tin can. This is intrinsic to the way she paints what she sees and why her art is not like anyone else’s.

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William Dobson - Portrait of Abraham van der Doort - ca. 1640

Abraham van der Doort (c. 1575/1580? - June 1640) was a Dutch artist. As Keeper of Charles I's art collections, he was the first Surveyor of the King's Pictures.

The office of the Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Pictures, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity – as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle and elsewhere. The office has only been full-time since 1972. It now operates in a professional capacity with a staff of a dozen people. As of the end of 2020, the position has been put in abeyance.

Although the office dates from 1625, there has always been someone responsible for pictures in the Royal Household. Notable recent office-holders have included Sir Lionel Cust (1901–1927), Sir Kenneth Clark (1934–1944), Professor Anthony Blunt (1945–1972), one of the infamous Cambridge Five, and Sir Oliver Millar (1972–1988). The post of Surveyor of the King's Pictures is currently in abeyance; the most recent was Desmond Shawe-Taylor, who held the post from 2005 to 2020.

William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried)) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as “the most excellent painter that England has yet bred”. He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.

Around sixty of Dobson's works survive, mostly half-length portraits dating from 1642 or later. The thick impasto of his early work gave way to a mere skim of paint, perhaps reflecting a wartime scarcity of materials. After Oxford fell to the Parliamentarians, in June 1646, Dobson returned to London. Now without patronage, he was briefly imprisoned for debt and died in poverty at the age of thirty-five.

Ellis Waterhouse described Dobson as "the most distinguished purely British painter before Hogarth", and in the view of Waldemar Januszczak he was "the first British born genius, the first truly dazzling English painter".

There are examples of Dobson's work at the National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Queen's House in Greenwich, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in several English country houses including notably Alnwick Castle where Dobson's self-portrait with Nicholas Lanier and Charles Cotterell is displayed, and at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.

The 2011 anniversary of his birth was marked by exhibitions, a 'Dobson Trail' listing his paintings on a website, and a BBC television profile by Januszczak, The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson.

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(top image- Journals by Jenny Granberry (top) and Victoria Block (bottom) ; Journals by Eva Avenue (top left) and Laura Waller (bottom left) and photography by Andrew Sovjani)

On the second floor of the Dunedin Fine Art Center are photographs by Andrew Sovjani and a collection of sketchbooks from a variety of artists, many of which you can look through- with gloves of course. It’s easy to spend lots of time with all the inspiring books these artists have created.

The exhibition closes 8/13/23.

About Andrew Sovjani, from the gallery-

Andrew Sovjani is a visual artist recognized for blurring the boundaries between photography, printmaking and painting. Raised in a family of working studio artists, art making is in his blood. Andrew has drawn from his life experiences in the scientific world and living in Asia to create transcendent bodies of work that are often extremely peaceful. His award-winning photographs have been shown in exhibitions throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and are held in many public and private collections. He has won awards of distinction at many of the top fine arts festivals in the nation and was a finalist for the Critical Mass book awards in 2008 and 2016.

Some of the artists whose books are included in the exhibition are- Jenny Granberry, Victoria Block, Eva Avenue, Laura Waller, Dion Dior, Daniel Mrgan, Julia Collver, Coralette Damme, Joan Duff Bohrer, Marjorie Greene Graff, Lukas Mosimann, Luis Colan, Kathy Pollak, Jennifer Kosharek, and Katy Deits.

Work by Eva Avenue

Work by Dion Dior

Work by Daniel Mrgan (top) and Julia Collver

Work by Coralette Damme

Work by Joan Duff Bohrer and Marjorie Geene Graff (right)

Work by Lukas Mosimann and Luis Colan

Journals by Kathy Pollak

Work by Jennifer Kosharek (left) and Katy Deits (right)

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My Sky, installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 21 July - 12 November, 2023 photo by Justin Spiers

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SDL - Grad604 Expand your view

Finding Aotearoa creatives, designers and spaces.

“Design Assembly” The home of New Zealand graphic design. Design Assembly loves to profile the breadth and depth of design practice in Aotearoa. For July they’re celebrating Māori design, designers, and illustrators. 

Ko Taupiri te maunga, ko Te Puehu o Waikato te moana, ko Waikato te awa, ko Tainui te waka, ko Waikato te iwi, ko Ngāti Tamaoho te hapū, ko Mangatangi te marae, nō Tāmaki Makaurau ahau. Ko Sara Moana tōkū ingoa. Sara discusses how her inspiration and creative journey began when she was studying illustration at Elam, looking into her  previous interests of Sculpture and Performance Art. Sara Moana - Freelance illustrator. 

Under the hood with …Nikki Kennedy, Founder of Taputapu He mokopuna ahau nō Te Tairawhiti mai i ngā maunga Hikurangi, Makeo me Maunga Haumi. Ko Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga a Mahaki me Te Whakatōhea ngā iwi. Ko Nikki Kennedy ahau.

- Aotearoa design and designers showcasing their work in large scale areas such as Sylvia Park mall - showing the large impact and effect that local designers can have. 

“Now that the project has finished we will be installing the artwork on Monday 3rd of July and then the public can enjoy our artwork at Sylvia Park. We are working on a variety of brand packages for our clients, that’s our bread and butter mahi. I’m also heading overseas to share about our Matariki artwork at a Thailand Matariki Gala event which is really exciting to be part of. I will be joining other Māori creatives, carvers and fashion designers to talk about how Matariki influences our design mahi and processes etc.

“Based in Auckland, Seachange are an award-winning design and branding studio—they work from digital design to naming and everything in between. Keeping themselves intentionally small doesn’t stop Seachange creating a big impact—their brands stand out for a whole variety of different reasons. One such brand is Ghost Street Dumplings, a pop-up dumpling, which used the company’s name very literally combined with a cute illustration to create a wonderful, memorable brand.” (Seachange, 2023)

“BrandAid is a brand development and design agency based in Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island. The award-winning agency’s creative director Luke Johnston has over 19 years experience in the industry—and founded BrandAid 15 years ago. They’ve worked with a huge range of clients, including their home city but it was this reusable packaging for Bay Rd Peanut Butter—which employs striking typefaces to make the look as good as it is for the planet.”

Pohewa Pāhewa: a Māori design kaupapa

1 Jul–3 Sep 2023

Desna Whaanga-Schollum Connection through exploration and the articulation of cultural identity. Projects see her collaborating with a wide variety of communities, business and design professionals, artists and academics to achieve results which affect change in people, practice and place. Desna is actively involved in Māori identity design, discourse and stakeholder engagement in Aotearoa, via design consultancy, research, exhibitions, wānanga, speaking engagements and governance roles.

“Graphic design is about having visual conversations with people. In order to have a good conversation I need to look people in the eye, I need to listen, and I need to know a bit about the topic at hand. People are smart, they know when you’re faking a smile, so it pays to put your heart into it as much as possible.” - Tyrone Ohio “People of Britomart”

“Graham Tipene (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Haua, Ngāti Manu) is a Tā Moko artist who has been involved as a consultant and key artist on civic and Council-led projects throughout Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. His public work brings Māori kaupapa into the built environment of the city, with major projects including the Waterview tunnel, Victoria Park, Auckland Library, and Tirohanga Whānui Bridge in Albany.In the latest episode of ‘Cultured Conversations,’ Auckland Art Gallery Director Kirsten Lacy speaks with Graham about Tā Moko and on bringing a Māori lens to civic spaces.” 

Johnson Witehira  “My kaupapa (mission) as both an artist and designer is to bring Māori visual culture back into the lives of all Māori. This is done through careful consideration of how indigenous culture, design and technology intersect. We once created all the things in our world; the clothes, buildings, vehicles and tools. Nowadays everything is made for us. If we’re lucky we get to decorate. I want to put Māori back in the drivers seat, so we’re active participants in creating the tools and the world we want to live in.”

Zoe Black

“Zoe has been with the gallery for two years working across curatorial programming, community development and public programmes. During this time she has made an extraordinary contribution to the organisation, leading Māori programming, alongside extensive work with Moana and migrant communities within a kaupapa of co-leadership. This work now forms a key focus of our exhibition programme.The establishment of this new position is an acknowledgement of Zoe’s leadership, and the expanding work Objectspace continues to undertake nationally. It heralds exciting change for the gallery and their small but mighty team.” Objectspace

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ARTIST STUDY - ALICIA FRANKOVICH:

"New Zealand-born artist Alicia Frankovich works predominantly in performance and film, but also has been known to utilise mediums such as drawing, sculpture and photography. Through her work she grapples with the performativity of bodies, exploring the body's presence and identity within space and amongst other bodies” (Ocula.com). 

^ Alicia Frankovich's installation Medea,  or Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, NEW010 exhibition, 2010.^ 

I love this work, how it is hung and how it appears as though the work is falling, drooping. In terms of form - this work has the most similarities to my own practice. I imagine, because of the materials used as well as how it is installed, that this work would allow for a full body, almost sensory experience. Something that hasn’t been a main focus of mine, but an idea I have in the back of my mind as my work has developed in terms of installation, and use of materials. 

Found objects used in Medea =  plastic carabenas, dirt, coconut fibre, newspaper, water tank, water pump, poly piping, nylon webbing, gaffer, sash, steel, basil, kiwifruit vines, tuscan kale, broccoli, flat leaf parsley, curly leaf parsley, long snake beans, purple kings, greens, tomatoes: black krims, black russians, tigerella, red fig dwarf, peach dreams, chillies: hellfire mix, jalapeno reds, capsicum: mini yellow, mini red, long yellow, mini chocolate, long green, bronze fennel, succulents, eggplants: heirloom mix, long jacks, red oakleaf lettuce.

^ Alicia Frankovich, The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations: Lebenspartnerschaft, Alex Martinis Roe and Alicia Frankovich, 2016 fabric, fan, ribbon, wood ^

“The all-encompassing phenomenon of the body — its insides, outsides, material and immaterial ways— could be considered the underlying fascination of Frankovich’s work” (starwhite.co.nz). 

^ Alicia Frankovich, Outside Before Beyond, 2017 installation view, Kunstverein fur die Reinland und Westfalen, Dusseldorf curated by Eva Birkenstock ^ 

^Alicia Frankovich, Orpheus 2010 aluminium, egg tray, eggs 205 x 85 cm ^.

^Alicia Frankovich, Rapture 2010 installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery ^. 

“Frankovich’s practice investigates how the physicality and behaviour of a body operates within social settings and constructs – including plays of dominance and re-negotiating the audience/performer relationship” (starwhite.co.nz). 

^Exhibition view: Alicia Frankovich, Starkwhite (8 February–6 March 2019). Courtesy Starkwhite ^ 

The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations - installation view, 2016. Starkwhite. 

I definitely resonate with  Frankovich’s interest and focus of the body and the bodily - and her exploration of such through sculpture, materiality and  form. Like myself, Frankovich works with some found materials, and has a wide collection of work including natural materials, vegetables, blanket sort of materials, drapery, etc. Medea is my favourite among Frankovich’s work - the installation aspect, as well as the cohesive nature of it. 

In relation to my practice, Frankovich’s practice offers further possibilities into how might display my work - as well as further abstract ways of investigating the body and the bodily, or provoking a bodily engagement/experience with the work. Her wide use of materials also makes me think about my own selection and how this has recently expanded and developed to include things that have a smell (such as her use of food etc)....

Links:

https://ocula.com/artists/alicia-frankovich/

https://www.starkwhite.co.nz/alicia-frankovich-at-acca-installation-views/ 

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City Gallery

At Thresholds: Olivia Blyth, Georgette Brown, Debra Bustin, Richard Frater, Ioane Ioane, Fiona Pardington, Emily Parr, Maureen Lander and Denise Batchelor, Lucy Meyle, Sorawit Songsataya, Zina Swanson. curated by Moya Lawson.

‘At Thresholds explores humanity’s place within the multispecies—a vibrant universe of lifeforms, including fungi, plants and animals. In a time of ecological crisis, the artists in this exhibition consider how art might renew our awareness of living with our more-than-human cohabitants. They take a range of perspectives at the thresholds of other existences. Through imaginative visual languages, the artists evoke diverse, commingling ways of being, which help shape and sustain the planet we share. Their work destabilises our human-centred present, proposing that much can be learned from telling stories about life, as one amongst multitudes.’

I found this exhibition to be really interesting. The sheer amount of people that has been brought together to exhibit is very cool and a fascinating mix. I did find that this exhibition definitely explored the environment and all that is in it and how all of these artists interpret it differently. The works that I liked were Debra Bustin's, Maureen Lander’s and georgette Brown’s. I am glad that I finally got to see some of Debra Bustin’s work in person even if it was just a snippet of it. I liked Maureen Lander's jellyfish and the shadows that they gave off were so cool ! Lastly the works that I enjoyed from Georgette Brown were here fashion fungi in the dark space with Debra bustins work, they went well together! There were some spikes I saw on those works 👀 

Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the Context of a Room

‘Imagined in the Context of a Room is a major retrospective celebrating the career and legacy of Joanna Margaret Paul (1945–2003). Paul’s intimate explorations of domestic life pushed the boundaries of artistic practice through an experimental, multi-disciplinary practice spanning drawing, painting, poetry, photography and film. Imagined in the Context of a Room considers the resonance and legacy of Paul’s work in the contemporary moment. This major exhibition presents a close study of her career from the 1970s to the 2000s and is accompanied by a significant publication. Moving across the different phases of Paul’s life as an artist, the exhibition traces key journeys that shaped her career: from Ōtepoti Dunedin to Te Pataka o Rakaihautū Banks Peninsula, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Whanganui and beyond; traversing the spaces between the mind, body and spirit; between the domestic and the political; between grief and beauty.’

This body of work sort of made me think of our group exhibition baby teeth in an interesting way. I thought of our works being placed in a traditional dealer gallery when we don’t sell our works, and I thought of our works being placed in a non-traditional gallery space. The space was very domestic, with shelves and a fireplace to work with, it was very interesting for us. So I think the mixture of art and domesticity made me think about our exhibition. The traces of emotion present throughout this exhibition and throughout Paul’s time as an artist is really successful in this show. 

Simon Morris: Room of Time

A large-scale drawing moves across the two long walls of the Hancock Gallery. Recurring forms painted directly onto the wall, will develop a pattern that is repetitive and geometric in nature, but also responsive to variables related to the body, time and application over the period of its making. 

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Works from Radiant Matter Part II (2011):

Radiant Matter II, Installation view. Dunedin Public Art Gallery. 

Gateway to the Etheric Realm. Powder coated steel, spell, salt, herbs, blessed water, dragons blood, feathers/

Epitaph. Perfume Cabinet

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Make A House A Home Project // Dunedin, New Zealand // exchange day I. The  Dunedin Public Art Gallery & I have provided a space for individual exchanges to become part of a much larger collective outcome – one that provides the opportunity to consider the new migrants who have entered Dunedin (& Aotearoa), the Red Cross Resettlement Programme &what it means to make a home in a new country. In doing so we have created an artwork that provides a welcome space, both for & by the community to help the local community support the resettled community. To extend a welcoming hand to those who are fortunate to resettle in Dunedin. Each print represents one small part of the larger project & its ambitions, forever linking those that have entered the exchange process. The art work becomes a facilitation for kindness & generosity that have benefits for both the participant & the receiver. It is important to do things that are good for the heart, to make time ourselves & each other. In doing this the artwork becomes a tangible place for the relationship between art & well-being to be seen, heard & acted upon.

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Marilynn Webb (New Zealand, 1937-2021), Going Through Fiordland Suite No 15, 1997. Pastel on paper, 58 x 76 cm. Dunedin Public Art Gallery

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12/07/2021

Research example done by group.

Jaqueline Fraser was born in 1956 and lived in Dunedin, she studied at Elam School Of Fine Arts for three years of her early life. She also lived in France after she had studied and resides there to this day. Fraser uses a mix of natural and artificial materials to create her work. These include woven, platted and stretching techniques. Te Are A Hine is made of wire, just electrical wire. This piece of work specifically can be found in Te Papa and a lot of her other work is featured in other Art Galleries around New Zealand, this is one of the ways her work is encountered by her audiences. Her work ‘Te Are A Hine’ was shown at the opening of New Zealand’s museum ‘Te Papa’ in 1979. Fraiser’s work reflected her opinions on identity and cultural politics relating to her cultural heritage. I can’t really find a specific meaning in this piece of work, google told me that the name ‘Te Are A Hine’ directly translates to the liver of a Hine but I don't know whether that as anything to do with this piece of art also because Hine also translates to girls or young women as well as a farming town in New Zealand near Wellsford.

Personal research of artists

Jonathon Ng was born in1995 In Dublin, Ireland. He is known professionally as Eden. Jonathon is an Irish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and occasional model. His audience is able to consume his art through platforms like Youtube, Spotify and Apple Music along with live shows that he preforms around the world. He has had three tours and was set for another one last year but COVID 19 messed that up for him. His work is very emotional and reflects issues that a lot of young people are familiar with. These include heartbreak, mental health, and other things which aren't specifically mentioned in his songs but that we somehow understand and relate to because of his creative communication. 

Miquel Barceló Artigues was born in 1957 in Felanitx, Mallorca. He is a Spanish painter who studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years. After this he returned to Mallorca to take part in a conceptual avant-garde group. His choice of media is painting, drawings, ceramics and he has also created beautiful statues. Barceló decorated the ceiling of the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Room with a beautiful painted mural which stretched over the whole ceiling. In terms of key conceptual, political or cultural issues that interest him, Barceló is apart of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) which is an international non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation that protects the rights and promotes the interests of creators worldwide. This falls in line with him caring and protecting the rights of artists everywhere. In 2011 he had an exhibition inFrance which was a chance for his audience to encounter his work. Other then that his work can be found in many different public spaces. 

Alexander S. MacLean was born in 1947. He is a photographic artist who is known for his aerial photographs. They often portray the history and evolution of the land, he records changes brought about from both natural and man made changes throughout time. Mac Lean graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree and a master of architecture degree. while studying commercial planning he became increasingly more interested in areal views of the locations he was in along with other natural and man made structures. His areal photographs aid the work of architects, landscape designers, urban planners, and environmentalists. his work is not limited to photography he has also written ten books. His work can be viewed by his audiences in exhibits that have so far ben in Canada, Europe and Asia. His photographs can also be found in private and public collections as well as university collections. MacLean currently works in a studio and he lives in Lincoln in Massachusetts.

Christopher or Frank Ocean was born in 1987. His choice of media and techniques include singing, songwriting, producing records, rapping, as well as these musical creative outlets he is also a photographer and a visual artist. His work is payed all around the world on many different music platforms so his audiences find it very easy to appreciate and listen to his work. He is one of the top artists today. In his music, Ocean explores adult issues along with young boys and men trying to find themselves in this world. Like other artists from this age his music also explores mental health and he even has a few songs about love in his mix. These are the things which I think influence and interest him. 

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Day 62. (March 27, 2021.)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery on the South Island of New Zealand mainly features British and European paintings, Japanese print art, and Australasian modern and contemporary art.