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Brooke Gifford Gallery
The Brooke Gifford Gallery was a dealer art gallery focusing on contemporary New Zealand art that opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1975. It was run by Barbara Brooke and Judith Gifford and closed in 2011. Pre history In January 1959, André and Barbara Brooke opened Gallery 91 in Cashel Street, Otautahi Christchurch. Although the gallery only survived for eleven months it presented significant solo exhibitions by Rudolf Gopas, Colin McCahon, Tosswill Woollaston, Doris Lusk, Helen Brown, Douglas McDiarmid, Frank Gross, John Coley, June Black, and Olivia Spencer Bower. History In 1975 Brooke teamed up with Judith Gifford to open the Brooke Gifford Gallery. The Gallery was located at 112 Manchester Street in a space shared with an antiques store although in time the Gallery did get its own entrance. Brooke and Gifford were helped to prepare the spaces by Quentin MacFarlane who Gifford had married in 1959. Rodney Wilson, who was teaching art history at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch
Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over half a million. It is located in the Canterbury Region, near the centre of the east coast of the South Island, east of the Canterbury Plains. It is located near the southern end of Pegasus Bay, and is bounded to the east by the Pacific Ocean and to the south by the ancient volcanic complex of the Banks Peninsula. The Avon River / Ōtākaro, Avon River (Ōtākaro) winds through the centre of the city, with Hagley Park, Christchurch, a large urban park along its banks. With the exception of the Port Hills, it is a relatively flat city, on an average around above sea level. Christchurch has a reputation for being an English New Zealanders, English city, with its architectural identity and nickname the 'Garden City' due to similarities with garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Field
Thomas Geoffrey Field (born 14 March 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a left back for Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC. A product of the Brentford Academy, Field graduated into the senior team in 2016. A fringe player, he departed to join Dundee in 2020. He moved to Canada later that year and played for Cavalry FC and Calgary Foothills. Born in England, Field was capped by the Republic of Ireland at U16 level. Club career Brentford Youth years (2012–2016) Field began his career with spells in the youth systems at non-League clubs Kingstonian and Leatherhead and then joined the academy at Brentford at age 15. He was a part of the Bees' U15 team which won the Junior category in the 2012 Milk Cup. Field progressed to sign scholarship forms at the end of the 2012–13 season and made 45 appearances and scored two goals for the youth team over the following two seasons. Moving from the wing to left back, Field made his Development Squad debut wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hammond
William Hammond (29 August 1947 – 30 January 2021) was a New Zealand artist who was part of the post-colonial Gothic movement at the end of the 1990s. He lived and worked in Lyttelton. The theme of his works centred around the environment and social justice. Early life Hammond was born in Christchurch on 29 August 1947. He attended Burnside High School. He went on to study at the Ilam School of Fine Arts of the University of Canterbury from 1966 until 1969. Before embarking on his career in art, he worked in a sign factory, made wooden toys, and was a jewellery designer. He also had a keen interest in music, serving as the percussionist for a jug band called The Band of Hope. Career Hammond started to exhibit his works in 1980, and went back to painting on a full-time basis one year later. His first solo exhibition was at the Brooke Gifford Gallery in Christchurch in 1982. In March 1987 he showed for the first time at the Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington, an exhibition f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryn George
Darryn George (born 1970) is a New Zealand artist based in Christchurch. Education George trained as an artist at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Canterbury and graduated with a BFA in painting in 1993. He subsequently completed a Diploma in Teaching, and then, studied towards a MFA (painting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. George is the Head of the Art Department at Christ’s College in Christchurch. Career George connects minimalist abstraction and the politics of photographic reproduction which has long influenced New Zealand art. George explores the contrast between the sheen and glossy photographic images accessible in books and the textural quality of paintings when encountered in real life. Whereas George uses abstract patterns that recall the pristine and hard-edged aspect of photographic representations in books, his paintings also include subtleties on the surface such as ridges and wobbly lines differentiating it from photographic reproductions. Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryrose Crook
Maryrose Crook (née Wilkinson) is a musician and artist from New Zealand. Crook and her husband, Brian, formed the band The Renderers in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1989. The band has released music with New Zealand company Flying Nun Records and American labels Merge, Siltbreeze and Drag City, and have toured New Zealand twice as the backing band for American alt-folk star Bonnie Prince Billy. In 1993 Crook moved to Port Chalmers and exhibited her first paintings in a cafe in Dunedin in 1995; within a year she was invited to exhibit at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. She is known for creating large-scale canvases depicting surreal, other-worldly landscapes. Her work is held in public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United States. The 2011 Christchurch earthquake destroyed Crook's home in Diamond Harbour and she and her family moved to the United States the following year. Based in Joshua Tree, California Joshua Tree is a census-designa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Cotton
Shane William Cotton (born 3 October 1964) is a New Zealand painter whose work explores biculturalism, colonialism, cultural identity, Māori spirituality, and life and death. Life Cotton was born in Upper Hutt with Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Hine and Te Uri Taniwha iwi affiliations (his father a member of the Ngāpuhi iwi and his mother European). Cotton studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, graduating in 1988 and then went on to gain a Diploma of Education from Christchurch College of Education. After finishing his studies he lectured at Massey University, Palmerston North, in the Māori visual arts programme until 2005 when he left to concentrate on his art practice full-time. Cotton was the recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 1998. In 2008, he received a Laureate Award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation. He was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the visual arts, in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Braithwaite
Joanna Braithwaite (born 1962) is a New Zealand painter. Braithwaite has been interested in exploring exchanges between people and animals since studying at the School of Fine Arts, in Canterbury in the mid-1980s. She has said her work has always tended toward the autobiographical, so what is happening in her environment creeps into the work. Life Braithwaite was born in Halifax, England, in 1962 and immigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1965. She grew up in the township of Pleasant Point in rural south Canterbury. Since the mid-1990s, when Braithwaite spent two years living in Melbourne, she has exhibited regularly in Australia as well as New Zealand. She returned to Australia in 1999 and continue to live and work in Sydney. Art Braithwaite has been described as a "realist, though of an edgy an sceptical sort. Braithwaite's eloquently phrased paintings occupy that point where the traditions of animal painting and Vanitas painting intersect." A painting of a slaughtere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Moffitt
Gilbert Trevor Moffitt (15 August 1936 – 4 April 2006) was a New Zealand artist, arguably one of the country's leading narrative painters. Moffitt's expressionist paintings reveal the lives and stories of ordinary working New Zealanders. Life Moffitt grew up in the gold mining township of Waikaia, in Southland. His family was a poor rural family, where of necessity a hunter-gatherer mentality prevailed. Moffitt's father Bert was a casual rural labourer, but by the mid-1940s, within a decade of Trevor's birth, the writing was on the wall for such roles. :''"The moment concrete posts came in, header harvesters came in, machine shearing came in, y fathercouldn't change or adapt or somehow be part of that. So what had been there for years and years on a seasonal basis just disappeared in a year or two"''. Moffitt's relationship with his father was strained when he refused to leave school and his father didn't speak to him for many years, leaving him to finance his schoolin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Illingworth
Michael Harland Illingworth (3 August 1932 – 15 July 1988) was a New Zealand painter and farmer. Life and times Michael Illingworth was born in Yorkshire and emigrated with his family to Tauranga in the early 1950s when he was 20 working as a photographer and photoengraver in Auckland. In 1959 he returned to the UK. Through a chain of New Zealand connections (the writer Kevin Ireland was also in London and knew the UK art dealer John Kasmin who had lived in New Zealand from 1951 to 1956). Kasmin recommended Illingworth for a job with the dealer Victor Musgrove who ran Gallery One. While working for Musgrove Illingworth was influenced by a number of the gallery's artists including Enrico Baj and John Christoforou. Another of the artists, Francis Souza, convinced Illingworth to leave his job at the gallery and become a full-time painter. In 1960 Illingworth did just that and left the UK to spend time painting in Paris and Greece. The next year he returned to New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Binney
Donald Hall Binney (24 March 1940 – 14 September 2012) was a New Zealand painter, best known for his paintings of birds. Biography Born and raised in Auckland, Binney was educated in Parnell, Auckland, taking classes with John Weeks and R B Sibson, who became his good friend and guide to the field of ornithology. From 1958 to 1961, he studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, gaining a Diploma of Fine Arts. Binney's tutors included Ida Eisa, James Turkington, Robert Ellis and Robin Wood. In 1963, he held his first solo exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Auckland and began teaching at Mount Roskill Grammar School, where he taught until 1966. In 1962, Binney began painting at Te Henga, and views of Puketotara with indigenous birds became a common motif in his artworks. In birdwatching, Binney said he discovered a passage into the landscape and the opportunity to develop a personal relationship with it. Binney described himself as a figurative painter concerned wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg (1940–1999) was a New Zealand painter, born in Auckland, New Zealand. Education Goldberg graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1961 with honours and awarded thJoe Raynes Scholarshipin her final year. At Elam, she studied alongside Don Binney, Michael Smither, Lynley Dodd, Greer Twiss, Malcolm Warr, and Graham Percy. In 1965 she received a ''Queen Elizabeth'' II ''Arts Council Grant'' which allowed her to travel to the United Kingdom and attend the Hornsey College of Art. Career Goldberg's paintings combined approaches to abstract and representational art. She experimented with painting techniques and effects including washing paint off with turpentine; a process called decalcomania (also used by the Surrealists), in which paper is used to apply paint by taking impressions from paint layered on board. Known for landscapes of New Zealand, Goldberg has also painted portraits. Well known works include ''Landscape'' (1964), ''Life'' (1960) and ''BDG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Hotere
Hone Papita Raukura "Ralph" Hotere (11 August 1931 – 24 February 2013) was a New Zealand artist. He was born in Mitimiti, Northland Region, Northland and is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important artists. In 1994 he was awarded an List of Honorary Doctors of the University of Otago, honorary doctorate from the University of Otago and in 2003 received an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. In the 2012 New Year Honours (New Zealand), 2012 New Year Honours, Hotere was appointed to the Order of New Zealand for services to New Zealand. Early history Hotere was born in Mitimiti, close to the Hokianga Harbour in the Northland Region, one of 15 children. When Hotere was 9, his older brother Jack enlisted in the army. Jack was killed in action in Italy in 1943. Hotere received his secondary education at Hato Petera College, Auckland, where he studied from 1946 to 1949. After early art training at the Auckland College of Education, Auckland Teachers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
