exibition year: 2021
Johl Dwyer’s sculptures are luxurious and satisfyingly perfect. His interest in the refraction of light to create colour has led him to explore different methods of applying colour to resin, as well as to an investigation of the ways that light and colour can collide inside a cuboid form. During the Renaissance the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli […]
HANNAH IRELAND MAIOHA KARA JAMIE TE HEUHEU TYRONE TE WAA One of the positive things about having to stay home during a COVID lockdown is the time you have (when not panicking) to think and read. And it’s funny how the answer to a question you’ve been pondering, arrives when you least expect it. During lockdown […]
A Month in the Country is a collaborative project between two potters: LAURIE STEER and TONY SLY. Presented by TIM MELVILLE during Aotearoa Art Fair’s TENT weekend it can be seen at the Tony SlyPottery store on Raglan Wharf from Friday 05 November to Sunday 07 November 2021. Laurie and Tony have been friends for many years and often […]
The term everywhen was coined in 1956 by the Australian anthropologist William Stanner. “One cannot fix ‘The Dreaming’ in time”, he wrote.“It was, and is, everywhen. It has an unchallengeable sacred authority [that] we non-Indigenous Australians shall not understand fully except as a complex of meanings”. Stanner was also known for popularising the term “the Great Australian Silence” – the “cult of disremembering” which […]
Ōtorohanga (population 3000), where artist Hiria Anderson was brought up and still lives, is situated in the Waikato King Country on the banks of the Waipa River. Until the 1880s it was a traditional Ngāti Maniapoto village, but when the Main Trunk railway was extended in 1887 it opened to European settlement and became home […]
We are proud to present an exhibition of works on paper by Alberto Garcia-Alvarez. One of the works selected dates from as early as 1963 and was created in California, ten years before he moved to New Zealand to teach at Auckland University. The others were created during the 1980s and ’90s. “Since 1948” – Alberto writes – “I have been using […]
The term ‘outsider art’ is a term that is contested. It has commonly been used to describe anything outside the mainstream art world and its institutions, and produced by people with limited or no artistic education. Its synonyms include self-taught, vernacular, autodidact art, and visionary art, but it was the term art brut used by French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) in the 1940s that […]
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used the words ‘Team of Five Million’ to galvanise the nation during our Level 4 COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Russ Flatt’s exhibition of the same name asks a different question. Do Aotearoa’s political realities and social constructs, in fact, work to divide us? Flatt’s series of five new photographs operate as an exploration of […]
In ‘to find, meet’, Salome Tanuvasa’s fourth solo exhibition at TMG, the artist presents four new paintings on canvas, together with a suite of framed works on paper. Describing her process, Tanuvasa writes:“Creating art requires time and space. Both things are in flow as I work within my own space – mental and physical – searching and reflecting […]
Like Birds, Like Fishes takes its title from a short story written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala in 1963 – a story in which a young man is caught between Indian tradition and a desire to live as irresponsibly as the birds and the fishes. Prawer Jhabvala was born in Germany of Polish parents and educated in England before […]
Colour is recognised as being a powerful communication tool. It has also been shown to influence mood and elicit physiological reactions. New Zealand’s ubiquitous yellow-and-black COVID signs are evidence that colour can even trigger changes in behaviour. But what is it about vibrant colour that draws us in or, in some cases, repels us? Do we respond to […]
Tim Melville is pleased to be participating in the 2021 Auckland Art Fair, opening Wednesday 24 February at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf. On the Opening Night and for the first 3 days of the Fair we will present a Group show including works by stone sculptor Joe Sheehan, painter Alberto Garcia-Alvarez, and Aboriginal […]