Peter James Smith Exhibitions

Small Works

10 Sept - 6 Oct 2010

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Exhibition Works

Iti Stars
Peata Larkin Iti Stars (2010)
Patikitiki Guide
Peata Larkin Patikitiki Guide (2010)
Iti Stars II
Peata Larkin Iti Stars II (2010)
Medley of Nature - II
Reuben Paterson Medley of Nature - II (2010)
Medley of Nature - IX
Reuben Paterson Medley of Nature - IX (2010)
Medley of Nature - XIII
Reuben Paterson Medley of Nature - XIII (2010)
Maniototo Station
Michael Hight Maniototo Station (2010)
Wedderburn
Michael Hight Wedderburn (2010)
Becks
Michael Hight Becks (2010)
No. 4 Line
Karl Maughan No. 4 Line (2010)
Dixon's Line
Karl Maughan Dixon's Line (2010)
Hamlon Road
Karl Maughan Hamlon Road (2010)
Good Sports #1
Joanna Braithwaite Good Sports #1 (2010)
Good Sports #2
Joanna Braithwaite Good Sports #2 (2010)
Good Sports #7
Joanna Braithwaite Good Sports #7 (2010)
Quotation of Dream III
Garry Currin Quotation of Dream III (2006)
Interior Gold II
Garry Currin Interior Gold II (2009)
Occupied Territory X
Garry Currin Occupied Territory X (2007)
The Sublime Echo - Study XII (Grono's Cave, Providence)
Peter James Smith The Sublime Echo - Study XII (Grono's Cave, Providence) (2008)
The Sublime Echo - Study XXIII (Rain at Long Sound)
Peter James Smith The Sublime Echo - Study XXIII (Rain at Long Sound) (2008)
The Sublime Echo - Study X (The Lorenz Transformation)
Peter James Smith The Sublime Echo - Study X (The Lorenz Transformation) (2008)
Direlect (2009)
Callum Arnold Direlect (2009)
Shelter Belt
Callum Arnold Shelter Belt (2009)
Riverside
Callum Arnold Riverside (2009)
Glass Crucible [14325]
Paul Mason Glass Crucible [14325] (2010)
Glass Crucible [14326]
Paul Mason Glass Crucible [14326] (2010)
Glass Crucible [14327]
Paul Mason Glass Crucible [14327] (2010)

Exhibition Text

The Small Works exhibition involves nine prominent artists.

Joanna Braithwaite’s new series Good Sports 1-7 demonstrates her characteristic, unique mastery of humour and a remarkable painterly ability to combine human foibles with animal character.

Peter James Smith’s extended The Sublime Echo – Study series celebrates the New Zealand landscape – its physicality, beauty, remoteness – whilst holding it up to intellectual – scientific and historic – examination.

Peata Larkin has risen to prominence by pioneering a technique that combines the disciplines of painting, weaving and the role of geometric pattern. The result is works which have sculptural presence and a narrative language that reaches from the binary world of pixilation back to Maori traditions and legends.

Every Garry Currin painting, regardless of size, is comprised of many elements and contains details that slowly materialise. His paintings are an amalgam of architecture, event and landscape, where things seem to be happening or have just occurred and in this way time is collapsed. Stories are told, sensations of imminence and parables of human activity emerge.

Reuben Paterson’s adroit and adventurous use of glitter has taken that material from the world of child’s play into the leading art galleries of New Zealand and Australia. The Medley of Nature is a suite of black and white works, examining abstracted elements of the koru shape.

Paul Mason’s Glass Crucibles are a brand new extension of this well-known sculptor’s acclaimed practice. His use of glass is unlike other glass practitioners – he uses colour as a patina, tone like a painter, the supremacy of form, and the translucency of glass to define presence.

Callum Arnold has established in his landscape work the metaphor of a journey. He overlays or segments the composition with elements which may or may not have happened there or then. He uses reflection and the paradox of things glimpsed to embellish each work with multiple dialogues.

Karl Maughan has produced small works throughout his career, demonstrating in these an outstanding capacity to render scale and the specific architectural reality of a garden utterly convincingly.

Michael Hight’s paintings of beehives gain their intensity from attention to the minutest detail. A mastery of place is accompanied by an elegiac lyricism and a virtuoso range of representational skills.

TO VIEW ALL 54 WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION, PLEASE SEE THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

exhibition catalogue