The Vernacular Lounge 2011 Programme
Last year Satellite Gallery has become home to the Vernacular Lounge, an intimate living room where the influences that shape New Zealand’s distinctive cultural identity as defined by its art, architecture, literature, film and other cultural forms, are discussed, debated, explored and celebrated. Read more here on The Vernacular Lounge philosophy here.
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AT SATELLITE GALLERY/THE VERNACULAR LOUNGE
Julia Scott: Call to Mind
30 July – 16 Aug
Opening: 4 - 6pm Sat, 30 July
Afternoon tea and conversation: 2 – 4pm Sun 7 August
Morning tea and conversation: 10.30am – 12pm Sat 13 August
The abstract paintings that make up Call to Mind are the result of Julia Scott’s ongoing curiosity about ideas and images drawn from physics, mathematics and psychology. Ideas she finds enticingly complex, subtle and paradoxical.
Through the painting process, they become a contemplation and layered interaction of scientific ideas and imagination – a quest for a missing piece which remains just out of reach. Underpinning her process is a collective human understanding and shared ‘reality’ that enables dialogue and consideration of apparently disparate conceptions.
Her paintings do not depict concepts literally, but draw on and combine an external research-based and analytical approach with an internal mysterious, unconscious and more spiritual world.
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Paul Chapman: New Work
19 - 30 August
Opening on: Thursday 18 August at 5.30 – 7pm
This exhibition explores mark-marking through the aesthetic of a ‘misprint.’
Paul’s finished art works are made into rubber stamps and become a vehicle for block printing. To some extent the work is controlled by the size of the stamps - they can be no larger that 8 x 10cm, and by the inks used on rubber for simple block printing.
“Through intentional overprinting, these works exhibit a controlled use of chance. I have forsaken a tight thematic exhibition for one that has a sense of ‘play’. Regardless of whether the subject matter is figurative or abstract, most have a notion of ‘error’ as their initial premise. The figurative works directly reference some of my past printmaking exhibitions, their contents are as clear as each title. The abstract works are free from such defining titles and venture towards exploring layering within the print”.
mis·print n
an error in the printed copy of a text or image resulting from a mistake made when it was being printed
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 11.00am - 5.30pm
Saturday 11 -4pm
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Claudia Pond Eyley: A Brief Survey of 40 Years of Drawing
3 - 20 September
Opening: Friday 2 September 5.30pm
Claudia Pond Eyley presents a selection of works on paper:
“As a visual artist the act of drawing has always facilitated a meditative mood of exploration in nature, observation of still life, structures and the human figure. Drawing is a starting point for ideas and inspires the resource material for many public commissions that I have had the privilege to engage in.”
Selected from among 900 works, this exhibition reflects the variety of subjects Claudia has studied over four decades; nature, landscape, still life and the human figure.
Among the works are drawings that inspired and were the resource material for many of the public commissions Claudia has engaged in; the Stokes Road, Mt. Eden, 20 metre mural, a test piece for street art in 1980; the High Court panels in Waterloo Quadrant, based on the history of the land of Auckland - Tamaki Makaurau; Auckland University panels for the Arts Commerce Building; a collaborative mural with Pat Hanly - “Flying Colours (with Invention)”; Stained glass windows in the Chapel at Lady Allum Home in Milford; and 11 windows at St. Mary’s Cathedral Church in Parnell, created with Glassworks in hand blown glass from Lyon, France.
“I find that drawing is a quick way of recording the flow of ideas. A painting will take weeks to complete, a drawing on paper will catch the energy in a session. 3B pencils, a craft knife, pens and a block of drawing paper and I can go into the bush and draw for hours, lost in time and space, reflecting the forms, patterns and texture that the natural environment holds.”
Satellite Gallery is honoured to exhibit these works as part of the Depot’s Cultural Icons project www.culturalicons.co.nz.
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Eden Arts: Young Artists Awards 2011
22 - 25 September
Awards ceremony:
Saturday 24 September, 2pm
Viewing:
Sunday 25 September, 11am - 4pm
Painting, photography/digital media, works on paper/mixed media, sculpture.
The Young Artists Awards are open to artists between the ages of 16 and 25 who live or attend school within the wider Mt Eden area. Culminating in an exhibition of work and judged by well known artists/curators, the awards comprise generous cash grants (a total of $11,000) to further the winners’ careers.
The aim of the Young Artists Awards is to provide a platform for young artists to exhibit their work, to place it in a professional gallery environment and to encourage adventurous experimentation and creativity. Eden Arts endeavours to encourage and support young artists in the wider Mt Eden community.
For more information see www.edenarts.co.nz
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David Straight: Still Here
Images of Christchurch
27 September – 22 October
ART WEEK AUCKLAND
Opening: Tuesday 27 September, 5.30pm
Art Week Auckland: Exhibition viewing and Book Introduction Friday 14 October, 5.30pm
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm
Christchurch born photographer David Straight presents 'Still Here', a photographic documentation depicting suburban Christchurch following the February 22 earthquake. The images, ‘quiet, contemplative, subtle and located away from the most obvious scenes of devastation, give a sense of the lingering disruption’ to suburban Christchurch (John Savage).
David interned at Magnum Photos in New York and has self-published several books including Nostos, The End of London and The Continuing Crisis. These books and others will be on display during the exhibition, David's first solo show.
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Robyn Gibson: New Works
27 September – 22 October
ART WEEK AUCKLAND
Opening: Tuesday 27 September, 5.30pm
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm
Established artist Robyn Gibson exhibits paintings and drawings in ‘New Works’ at Sputnik Room, Satellite Gallery
Some of Gibson’s recent work is influenced by the later period of Canadian painter Philip Guston and French sculptor Louise Bourgeois, and has been acquired by arts collector Sir James Wallace. Like many of her other pieces, they are works speckled with hints of surrealism and a subtle and disarming sense of humour.
Flight of the Hofkos: A Double Feature
27 October - 20 November
Opening on: Thursday 27 October 6.30pm with a performance by Karin Hofko at 7pm followed by live music by Auckland’s Matt 'Flick' Brennan
This survey exhibition showcases sculpture, video installation, performance and photography by artists Markus and Karin Hofko.
A key installation in the show is Markus’ Islands, a series of 11 floating miniature lands.
“On top we find little people in strange but familiar situations. Snapshots of random everyday scenarios twisted into the obscure, they seem like riddles,” says Markus.
His often quirky work incorporates philosophical, filmic and even cartoon allusions and is infused with elements of pop culture and graphic design.
The Print Salon: Group Show
22 November - 24 December
Opening at Satellite: Tues 22 November 5:30–7pm
A group show including various printmaking processes such as print intaglio, dry point, solar plate and screen print; by artists Philippa Bentley, Lianne Chua, Sue Cooke, Julia Ellery, Julienne Francis, Faith Thomas, Susan Hurrell-Fieldes, Ellen Reimann-Filby and Fleur Williams.
“The Print Salon” shows alongside Prudence MacDougall’s and Tina Frantzen’s exhibitions at Satellite Gallery.
Prudence Mac Dougall: Chimera
22 November – 10 December
Opening at Satellite on: Tuesday 22 November 5:30 – 7pm
Morning Tea: 10am Saturday 26 + Tuesday 29 November, 10am Saturday 3 + Tuesday 6 December
Satellite exhibition opening hours: 10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
The Chimera is an extraordinary fire breathing creature from Greek mythology. It was initially a grotesque combination of a lion, a goat and a serpent and the central figure of one of the earliest legends depicted in Greek art. However, any imaginary creature made up of different animals can be referred to as a ‘Chimera’.
The word ‘Chimera’ is also used today to refer to organisms that contain different genealogical materials and it is this definition established artist and printmaker Prudence Mac Dougall explores in her newest body of solar plate etchings: the ‘Chimera’ suite.
Although strongly influenced by Goya, Prudence’s fantastical beasts are always portrayed with great humour and charm; creations more at home in children’s fairy tales than the horror of nightmares.
After graduating with distinction from Elam School of Fine Art in the mid 1980’s Prudence travelled, studied and exhibited extensively internationally. Her exhibition credits include; The British School in Rome, International School of Art in Umbria and The Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Closer to home, Prudence has also exhibited with many galleries in and around New Zealand and has works in many private collections.
Her art practice has always operated like a stage: setting a scene that reflects her real life experience and explores the dynamics of human relationships. Her intention when creating images is to recreate a significant moment in time as if glimpsed through a transformative lens, offering us fantastical visions from an amazing and magical world.
Tina Frantzen:
Entr’acte
13 December - 24 December
Opening at Satellite on: Tuesday 13 December 5:30 – 7pm
Satellite exhibition opening hours 10am - 6pm Monday - Friday, 10am - 3pm Saturday
Since she began painting six years ago, Tina Frantzen has been exhibiting consistently and has had three solo shows previously at Satellite Gallery. (www.satellitegallery.co.nz). Her works are held in private collections as well as that of the James Wallace Trust.
She paints intuitively using the qualities of light to illuminate elusive and enigmatic figures, the details of each being unknown to her before painting commences, so that with each work there is a process of discovery. By not titling the pieces, Tina shares this sense of discovery with her audience who are free to interpret each painting as they wish.
This exhibition is a continuing evolution of her work.
“They don’t go for grandeur or savagery or the latest thing from overseas. They are challenging since they set the imagination at work and they do have that eminently approachable quality of delight”.
TJ McNamara, NZ Herald, November 28,2009.
