Summer Show

Nigel Brown Exhibitions

18 Dec 2010 - 2 Feb 2011

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Exhibition Works

Joanna Braithwaite Feathered Feats - Rescue (2004)

Paul Mason Glass Crucible [14339] (2010)

Ralph Hotere Ruia Ruia (1977)

Andy Leleisi'uao Assembled Harmony (2009)

Emily Siddell Divide - Lei 3 (2005)

Karl Maughan Riverena (2010)

Rebecca Harris Ruru and Dried Flax Pod Arrangement (2010)

Neil Frazer Tunnel Break (2010)

Reuben Paterson Untitled (Blue Kowhaiwhai) (2009)

Ann Robinson Curved Vase #3 (2009)

Richard Orjis Sisters of the Moon (2008)

Dick Frizzell Haka Lyric (2010)

Nigel Brown This Land (2010)

Andy Leleisi'uao Umbilical Paths of Nalo - Part I (2010)

Peata Larkin Whakataunga Resolution (Papakirango) (2007)

Peter James Smith The Measure of Aoraki (2006)

Lorraine Rastorfer Tanzen (To Dance) (2008)

Gary Waldrom Girl and Horse I (Second Series) (2008/09)

Christine Cathie Amorphism (Red) (2010)

John Walsh Hemi Happens upon a Gathering of Manaia (2002)

Nigel Brown Cook Wrestling with a Maori Angel (2010)

Paul Mason Glass Crucible [14332] (2010)

Robert Ellis Ra Tapu Te Rawhiti 4 Pepuere 1990 (1990)

Karl Maughan Colyton (2010)

Dick Frizzell Another Big Kiss (2009)

Gary Waldrom Life Study III (2008)

Neil Dawson Vanishing Point 13 (2007)

Lorraine Rastorfer Whistle (2006)

Neil Frazer Marking Time (2010)

Marc Blake Everything I've Ever Known (2009)

Neal Palmer MG8 (2010)

Luke Jacomb Nero Murrine Patu (2007)

Jenna Packer The Incident (2010)

Simon Wards Power Pole [14374] (2010)

Stanley Palmer Karamea (2010)

Wendy Fairclough Shades of Green (2008)

Rebecca Harris Blood of the Land (2007)

Stanley Palmer Rocks and Sea (1972)

Paul Mason Glass Crucible [14336] (2010)

Garry Currin Towards Damascus (2004)

Michael Hight Kopua (2005)

Tim Main Composition with Grasses VI (2008)

Bruce Hunt Lunar (A Dry Year) (2008/09)

Rebecca Harris Weka - the Scavenger (2010)

Neil Dawson Crater - Archaeology (2005)

Wayne Barrar Pines / coastal erosion, Mahia 2010

Stanley Palmer Punakaiki II (2010)

John Edgar Cube (Red / Black wide) (2008)

Charlotte Handy Begin on Your Histories (2010)

Jenna Packer Quadrille (2010)

Luke Jacomb Reticello Canoe Paddle [MH6] (2008)

Michael Hight Wedderburn (2010)

Dick Frizzell All Square in Love and War (2010)

Anita DeSoto War Widow (2009)

Stanley Palmer Matauri (2010)

Nigel Brown In Pride of Place (2004)

Rebecca Harris Kahu - Captive of Tane (2010)

Neil Dawson Whare (2010)

Lyndsay Patterson Small Gold Amethyst Murrine Vessel [13921] (2010)

Matt Palmer Snakes & Ladders (2010)

Exhibition Text

The Summer Show in Dunedin celebrates that season and presents a grouping of key works. The garden is seen and felt in Tim Main’s breathtaking Composition with Grasses VI (2008), Neal Palmer’s commanding Snakes & Ladders (2010), Karl Maughan’s important Riverena (2010).

Charlotte Handy enters the bush and fractures space into patterns in Begin on Your Own Histories (2010). Richard Orjis presents an orchid branch Sisters of the Moon (2008) as a narrative container. Ann Robinson’s masterful Curved Vase #3 (2009) combines the poetry of design and form with the lyricism of colour interacting in light.

Nigel Brown uses the metaphors of dance, the built stage and unites this with the reckless joy of bungy jumping in Pride of Place (2004). Remarkable sensations of movement arise in Lorraine Rastorfer’s astonishing Tanzen (to Dance) (2008). Symbols of time, journey, valour, local history and spiritual quest dominate the Northland focused dialogue of Robert Ellis’s great painting Ra Tapu Te Rawhiti 4 Pepuere (1990). Wendy Fairclough in Shades of Green (2008) establishes a domestic still-life tableaux and subjects this to a discourse on tone, hue and space.

Joanna Braithwaite unites human attributes with humour and pathos in Feathered Feats – Rescue (2004). Michael Hight’s beehive paintings have achieved iconic status for numerous reasons and Kopua (2005) is outstanding. Peter James Smith’s unique combination of scientific text and the romantic landscape is witnessed in the sublime work The Measure of Aoraki (2006).

Just back from a major art residency in Eastern Germany, Anita deSoto’s War Widow (2009) hangs in limbo. Marc Blake’s Everything I’ve Ever Known (2009) is a startling work, redolent with narrative vignettes. Recent McCahon Artist in Residence Andy Leleisi’uao episodic, linear constructed paintings tell stories of loss and quest, reaching deep into myth and the abject realities faced in suburban Auckland daily. Neil Dawson’s Whare (2010) sits off the floor on a stainless steel pedestal in front of Ralph Hotere’s Ruia Ruia (1977) and to its side hangs a Luke Jacomb Reticello Canoe Paddle (2008).