Past Exhibitions

The Royal Queenstown Easter Show

20 Mar - 14 Apr 2010

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Exhibition Works

Untitled (Blue Kowhaiwhai)
Reuben Paterson Untitled (Blue Kowhaiwhai) (2009)
Lithops
Tim Royall Lithops (2009)
Cook Wrestling with a Maori Angel
Nigel Brown Cook Wrestling with a Maori Angel (2010)
Murrine Pacifica [12396]
Luke Jacomb Murrine Pacifica [12396] (2008)
Journey to the Bee Keeper's Cottage III
Garry Currin Journey to the Bee Keeper's Cottage III (2010)
Greenstone Valley (2003)
Doc Ross Greenstone Valley (2003)
Figure in a Landscape (2009)
Terry Stringer Figure in a Landscape (2009)
Meditation
Elizabeth Rees Meditation (2009)
Ashley Gorge
Michael Hight Ashley Gorge (2010)
Untitled (Small Red Kowhaiwhai)
Reuben Paterson Untitled (Small Red Kowhaiwhai) (2009)
Another Green World II
Elizabeth Thomson Another Green World II (2008)
After Stubbs: Field Study 135
Mike Petre After Stubbs: Field Study 135 (2010)
Fire Light
Neal Palmer Fire Light (2008)
Still Life Head (2009)
Terry Stringer Still Life Head (2009)
Pacific #2 (2009)
Doc Ross Pacific #2 (2009)
Angel to Cook
Nigel Brown Angel to Cook (2009)
In Motion
Elizabeth Rees In Motion (2009)
Journey to the Bee Keeper's Cottage V
Garry Currin Journey to the Bee Keeper's Cottage V (2010)
Bud (Black Chevrons)
Tim Royall Bud (Black Chevrons) (2008-09)
After Stubbs: Field Study 134
Mike Petre After Stubbs: Field Study 134 (2010)
Another Green World VI
Elizabeth Thomson Another Green World VI (2008)
Murrine Pacifica [12398]
Luke Jacomb Murrine Pacifica [12398] (2008)
Awatere Valley
Michael Hight Awatere Valley (2010)
In the Red
Elizabeth Rees In the Red (2009)
After Stubbs: Field Study 136
Mike Petre After Stubbs: Field Study 136 (2010)
Enlighten Me
Nigel Brown Enlighten Me (2010)
Separation / Entanglement
Tim Royall Separation / Entanglement (2008)
Sweetner
Neal Palmer Sweetner (2010)
Untitled (Large Red Kowhaiwhai)
Reuben Paterson Untitled (Large Red Kowhaiwhai) (2009)
Journey to the Bee Keeper's Cottage I
Garry Currin Journey to the Bee Keeper's Cottage I (2010)
Sleeping Muse (2008)
Terry Stringer Sleeping Muse (2008)
Pacific #10 (2009)
Doc Ross Pacific #10 (2009)
Warp & Weft
Neal Palmer Warp & Weft (2010)
Taylor's Pass II
Michael Hight Taylor's Pass II (2010)
Murrine Pacifica [12397]
Luke Jacomb Murrine Pacifica [12397] (2008)
Another Green World V
Elizabeth Thomson Another Green World V (2008)

Exhibition Text

The inaugural Royal Queenstown Easter Show features many new works by leading artists.

In paintings full of humour, historical irony, pathos and Christian imagery Nigel Brown places Captain Cook in the entangling arms of Maori angels. Mike Petre’s new After Stubbs works references both that acclaimed British artist’s naturalistic tradition whilst acknowledging his own iconic Field Studies Series.

Reuben Paterson’s (featured so prominently in the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane and on the cover of the recent Art in Australia) three kowhaiwhai glitter paintings are visual poems of repeated rhythms, demonstrating his remarkable skill, restraint and mastery of a most difficult medium. Elizabeth Rees capacity to present motion and allow the viewer into the mind of her figures is as always wonderfully delivered.

Neal Palmer’s detailed botanical paintings of flax leaves, craddies and flowers present repeated form and make us conscious of that which is everywhere in New Zealand. Michael Hight’s beehive paintings have become one of the most sustained and an important body of work in recent New Zealand art, and as such the artist has altered the way many people look at our landscape and what they come to see. Garry Currin’s Journey to the Beekeepers Cottage is a narrative sequence, delivered with characteristic painterly skill and narrative complexity.

Elizabeth Thomson uses glass in a manner few can or do. She creates – as in invents – unique worlds, combining elements of what might be seen down a microscope with upholstery design devices and tonal colour studies. Luke Jacomb’s mastery of glass is such that recently he was honoured with a major survey exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The Murrine Pacifica patu works traverse the cultural dynamics of a Maori club and the European (primarily Venetian) glass making tradition.

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