John Parker Exhibitions

McHugh / Hudson / Parker / Patterson

19 Aug - 12 Sept 2022

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Exhibition Works

Fuchsia
Michael McHugh Fuchsia (2022)
Viridis
Michael McHugh Viridis (2022)
Caeruleum
Michael McHugh Caeruleum (2022)
Still Life with Two Frogs and Karaka Berries
Tania Patterson Still Life with Two Frogs and Karaka Berries (2022)
Still Life with Piper Fish, Frog, Puriri Berries and Manuka Flowers
Tania Patterson Still Life with Piper Fish, Frog, Puriri Berries and Manuka Flowers (2022)
Still Life with Piper Fish, Karaka Berries and Gecko
Tania Patterson Still Life with Piper Fish, Karaka Berries and Gecko (2022)
Still Life with Ruru, Piper Fish, Puriri Berries, Flowers and Huhu Beetle
Tania Patterson Still Life with Ruru, Piper Fish, Puriri Berries, Flowers and Huhu Beetle (2022)
Still Life with Piper Fish, Puriri Berries and Flowers
Tania Patterson Still Life with Piper Fish, Puriri Berries and Flowers (2022)
Melos
Natchez Hudson Melos (2022)
Dacia
Natchez Hudson Dacia (2022)
Hattusa (Here Comes the Night Time II)
Natchez Hudson Hattusa (Here Comes the Night Time II) (2022)
Timgad
Natchez Hudson Timgad (2022)
Perperikon
Natchez Hudson Perperikon (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-1]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-1] (2022)
Matt White Zig Zag Vessel [22-3]
John Parker Matt White Zig Zag Vessel [22-3] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-2]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-2] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-4]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-4] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-7]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-7] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-6]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-6] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-5]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-5] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-9]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-9] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Vessel [22-8]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Vessel [22-8] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-11]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-11] (2022)
Matt White Bottle [22-10]
John Parker Matt White Bottle [22-10] (2022)
Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-12]
John Parker Matt White Grooved Bottle [22-12] (2022)

Exhibition Text

New to the gallery, Michael McHugh celebrates the natural world. With a tightly argued rich palette and abstracted botanical shapes floating in space, he develops considerable sensations of joy and distinguished rhythms of form.

Natchez Hudson, currently based in Poland, turns the New Zealand landscape genre inside out. Combining the different visual disciplines of representational and geometric abstraction alongside the commanding use of unconventional materials, he forges entirely new readings of our imperilled world.

Acknowledged as one of New Zealand’s greatest ceramists, John Parker’s resolute conversation about a restricted palette, the disciplines of hand-built form, and the negative space surrounding each object remains central to his entire oeuvre. The result is – and the objects are – individually and collectively elevated by this restraint and Parker’s imperious delivery of form.

Uniting vignettes of New Zealand flora and fauna and by blending elements of pictorial perspective and sculptural space together, Tania Patterson re-purposes the still-life model into a momento mori of our times.