Mike Crawford Exhibitions

Autumn Show

17 Apr - 12 May 2010

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Exhibition Works

Chisel Back
Neil Frazer Chisel Back (2008)
Sounding The Dark For Charles Brasch (Bill Manhire)
Ralph Hotere Sounding The Dark For Charles Brasch (Bill Manhire) (1999)
Northerly Flow
Galia Amsel Northerly Flow (2009)
Heat and Showers
Bruce Hunt Heat and Showers (2008/09)
Green Road
Karl Maughan Green Road (2007/10)
Moa Bowl [13764]
Mike Crawford Moa Bowl [13764] (2010)
Cook Wrestling with a Maori Angel
Nigel Brown Cook Wrestling with a Maori Angel (2010)
Plain Song: For Midnight
J S Parker Plain Song: For Midnight (2007)
Imperfect Atmosphere No. 1
Andrew Drummond Imperfect Atmosphere No. 1 (1995)
Winter Solstice
Ralph Hotere Winter Solstice (1993)
Element
John Edgar Element (2008)
Passageway
Neil Frazer Passageway (2006)
Path of the Teviot
Bruce Hunt Path of the Teviot (2009)
Antarctic Drift 3
Galia Amsel Antarctic Drift 3 (2008)
Plain Song: Winter's Brown
J S Parker Plain Song: Winter's Brown (2007)
Imperfect Atmosphere No. 3
Andrew Drummond Imperfect Atmosphere No. 3 (1995)
Patinated Bronze Crucible [13519]
Paul Mason Patinated Bronze Crucible [13519] (2008)
Harrisons Line
Karl Maughan Harrisons Line (2010)
Snow Melt Vessel
Robyn Irwin Snow Melt Vessel (2006)
Ashley Gorge
Michael Hight Ashley Gorge (2010)
Formerly Farmer Murray's Wheatfield
J S Parker Formerly Farmer Murray's Wheatfield (2006)
Reservoir Series  II (10)
Emily Siddell Reservoir Series II (10) (2004)
Lunar (A Dry Year)
Bruce Hunt Lunar (A Dry Year) (2008/09)
Transformer
John Edgar Transformer (2007)
Spring 8
Galia Amsel Spring 8 (2009)
Imperfect Atmosphere No. 2
Andrew Drummond Imperfect Atmosphere No. 2 (1995)
Patinated Bronze Crucible [13520]
Paul Mason Patinated Bronze Crucible [13520] (2008)
Untitled Figure Study
Ralph Hotere Untitled Figure Study (1970)
Colyton (May 2008)
Karl Maughan Colyton (May 2008)
Emerald Tarn Vessel
Robyn Irwin Emerald Tarn Vessel (2006)
Island Time
Neil Frazer Island Time (2008)
Glacial Ice Vase Pale Jade (2007)
Robyn Irwin Glacial Ice Vase Pale Jade (2007)
Patinated Bronze Crucible [13518]
Paul Mason Patinated Bronze Crucible [13518] (2008)
Taylor's Pass 2 (2010)
Michael Hight Taylor's Pass 2 (2010)

Exhibition Text

The Autumn Show includes some rare works on paper (from the Imperfect Atmosphere Series) by Andrew Drummond (who will shortly have a major survey exhibition at the Christchurch Art Gallery). Like Drummond, Galia Amsel’s wedge-shaped glass sculptures and J S Parker’s textural extrapolations pursue abstract dialogues with reference to the physical world, presenting phenomena and event. Bruce Hunt does this too but his interlocking landscapes are obviously literal and achieve remarkable sensations of being up high, looking down and across through air which clearly has as much substance as the land itself. Neil Frazer’s adaptive use of an abstract painting technique to a representative subject has resulted in paintings which seem to have been chiselled directly from the real world.

Karl Maughan paintings achieve the wondrous status of taking the viewer inside the reality of a developed garden. And yet it is unmistakeable in Harrisons Line and Green Road that he is also equally determined to remind us that these are paintings.

Rebecca Harris’s use of symbolism, myth and the multi-faceted traditions of portraiture are incisive and really edgy. Megan Huffadine’s hand-built votive objects likewise have a symbolic language but one which obliges the viewer to search their own memory for meanings, clues, dreams, and values.

John Edgar (who recently exhibited at the National Museum of Scotland) explores the linear qualities of form and colour in Transformer. In Element he establishes a remarkable contradiction of materiality with slices of black stone and clear glass side by side and then caps it with a fluid, organic, landscape motif.

The Autumn Show also includes works on paper by Ralph Hotere and Stanley Palmer, glass vessels by Robyn Irwin and a suite of Paul Mason’s patina bronze crucibles.

exhibition catalogue