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Michael Lett (gallery)
Michael Lett is a gallery dealing in contemporary art that operates in Auckland, New Zealand. The gallery was established by Michael Lett in 2003 and since 2015 he has been joined by co-director and part owner Andrew Thomas. History Michael Lett opened his eponymous gallery in a ground floor space on the corner of Karangahape Road and Edinburgh Street, Auckland in 2003. Lett had previously worked for art dealers Anna Bibby and Sue Crockford Gallery, Sue Crockford and was with the Gow Langsford Gallery when he decided to open his own business. The gallery was initially founded in partnership with the artist Michael Parekōwhai and opened with ''Dive'' an exhibition by Steve Carr (artist), Steve Carr''.'' The second exhibition ''Views of Space'' with the Australian artist Hany Armanious gave some indication of the breadth of artists Lett intended to pursue. From 2008 to 2011 Lett was assisted by Sarah Hopkinson who has described Michael Lett as a place to see, ‘…serious e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karangahape Road
Karangahape Road (commonly known as K' Road) is one of the main streets in the Auckland CBD, central business district (CBD) of Auckland, New Zealand. The massive expansion of motorways through the nearby inner city area – and subsequent flight of residents and retail into the suburbs from the 1960s onwards – turned it from one of Auckland's premier shopping streets into a marginal area with the reputation of a red-light district. Now considered to be one of the cultural centres of Auckland, since the 1980s–1990s it has been undergoing a slow process of gentrification, and is now known for off-beat cafes and boutique shops. It runs west–east along a ridge at the southern edge of the Auckland CBD, perpendicular to Queen Street, Auckland, Queen Street, the city's main street. At its intersection with Ponsonby, New Zealand, Ponsonby Road in the west, Karangahape Road becomes Great North Road, New Zealand, Great North Road, at its eastern end it connects to Grafton Bridge. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sriwhana Spong
Sriwhana Spong (born 1979) is an artist and dancer from New Zealand. Spong grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, in a family of Balinese origin. She studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001. Her first exhibitions were in not-for-profit spaces in New Zealand, Australia and Germany. In 2003 she had her first solo show, at the Anna Miles Gallery. Spong also holds a master's degree from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Much of her work is in film and video, and reflects her training in classical ballet by focusing on dance and movement. In 2010 she presented a multi-dimensional film at Art Basel, a re-imagining of a lost ballet, George Balanchine’s ''The Song of the Nightingale''. The ballet was originally choreographed in 1925 however all that remains are fragments of a film of it, the score, and photographs of the costumes. Spong also published a companion book to her film. Spong obtained her doctorate from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Wright (dancer)
Douglas James Wright (14 October 1956 – 14 November 2018) was a New Zealand dancer and choreographer in the New Zealand arts establishment from 1980 until his death in 2018. Although he announced his retirement from dance in 2008, on the occasion of the publication of his first book of poetry, ''Laughing Mirror'' he subsequently continued to make dance works, including touring ''The Kiss Inside'' during April 2015. Biography Wright was born in Tuakau, South Auckland, in 1956. From 1980 to 1983 he danced with the Limbs Dance Company and choreographed a number of works on the company before travelling to New York where he danced with the Paul Taylor Company, 1983–1987 and London with DV8 Physical Theatre, 1988. Returning to New Zealand in 1989, he formed the ''Douglas Wright Dance Company'', with which he created more than 30 major works, touring New Zealand, Australia and Europe. In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours, Wright was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). The prize is awarded at Tate Britain every other year, with various venues outside of London being used in alternate years. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the UK's most publicised art award. The award represents all media. As of 2004, the monetary award was established at £40,000. There have been different sponsors, including Channel 4 television and Gordon's Gin. A prominent event in British culture, the prize has been awarded by various distinguished celebrities: in 2006 this was Yoko Ono, and in 2012 it was presented by Jude Law. It is a controversial event, mainly for the exhibits, such as ''The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'' – a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst – and ''My Bed'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Art Foundation
ACE Open (Adelaide Contemporary Experimental) is a contemporary visual art organisation based in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 2017 after the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF) were merged, creating a new organisation. History The Experimental Art Foundation (EAF) was created in the Adelaide suburb of St Peters in 1974 by a breakaway group of CACSA members, with the intention of focusing on "more radical, multi-disciplinary and performance work". These artists and theorists, initiated by Donald Brook, and joined by Bert Flugelman (who had moved from Sydney at Brook's suggestion), Ian North, Clifford Frith, and Phil Noyce, wanted to promote the idea of art as "radical and only incidentally aesthetic", and encourage new approaches to creating art. Its stated mission was "to assist, promote and develop, through production, exhibition, distribution and the encouragement of debate, art and art practices that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Denny (artist)
Simon Eric Denny (born 1982) is a contemporary artist based in Berlin. He represented New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Since 2018 he is a professor for time based media at the HFBK Hamburg. Early life and education Born in Auckland, Denny studied at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts from 2001 to 2005 and Meisterschule, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main from 2007 to 2009. Career Denny makes sculptures and installations that take his research into the practices and aesthetics of technology companies and products as their starting point. His subject matter has included the redesign of the New Zealand passport, German technology conferences, and internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. Denny has produced three exhibitions under the title ''The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom'', in which the artist presented replicas and stand-ins for the items seized from Kim Dotcom's home in a raid carried out by New Zealand Police. The exhibition was first presented at Museu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Dashper
Julian Dashper (29 February 1960 in Auckland, New Zealand – 30 July 2009), was regarded as one of New Zealand's most well known contemporary artists. History In 2001 he was awarded a senior Fulbright fellowship to be based as an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Dashper's work from the last 25 years has recently been the subject of a major touring retrospective in America (the first ever such exhibition for a resident New Zealand artist), curated by Christopher Cook and David Raskin. Dashper's work focuses on the histories, theories and more general or popular ideas of abstraction (in particular abstract painting), conceptualism and minimalism as a working methodology. The geographical positioning of New Zealand globally and how this country receives and disseminates visual information is also a core subject in Dashper's work. His practice manifests itself in various forms, including paintings, unique photographs of paintings, found objects which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958 in Llanelli) is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. In 2018 he won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Early life and education The son of Sulwyn and Myfanwy Evans, Evans was born in Llanelli. He was educated at Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant, Llanelli and at Llanelli Boys Grammar School. His father was a noted photographer and painter. Evans is a fluent Welsh speaker. Evans completed a foundation course at Dyfed College of Art (1976–77), and later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art (1977–80), while working as an invigilator at the Tate, and the Royal College of Art (1981–84). Among his teachers at Saint Martin's was conceptual artist John Stezaker. Evans then served as an assistant to Derek Jarman, with whom he worked on '' The Angelic Conversation'' (1985), ''Caravaggio'' (1986), and '' The Last of England'' (1987). His early experimental film work in the 1980s often concentrated on dancers including collaborations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Creed
Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 227: The lights going on and off'', in the Turner Prize show. Creed lives and works in London. Life and education Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England. He moved with his family to Glasgow at age 3 when his silversmith father got a job teaching there.Farah Nayeri (24 January 2014)When Art Is Beside the Point''International Herald Tribune''. He grew up revering art and music. His parents were Quakers, and he was taken often to Quaker meetings. He attended Lenzie Academy, and studied art at the Slade School of Art at University College London from 1986 to 1990. Since then he has lived in London, apart from a period (2000—2004) living in Alicudi, an island off Sicily in the South of Italy. He currently lives and works back in London. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Corkery
Stella Corkery (born 1960) is a New Zealand visual artist and drummer, born in Tuatapere, New Zealand. Corkery's work is experimental and reflective, often commenting on contemporary ideas. She currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Education Corkery attended the Elam School of Fine Art (University of Auckland) where she received a BFA (Hons) First Class Honors in 2012 and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in 2013. Visual art Corkery's paintings use traditional processes, such as oils, although she doesn't restrict herself to a particular style. Her visual works include ''Smoke and Butterfly'' (2015) and ''Gas Light'' (2015). In 2013 Corkery was selected to be part of the exhibition ''Freedom Farmers: New Zealand Artists Growing Ideas'' at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. This exhibition showcased twenty New Zealand contemporary artists from various media, reflecting on concept such as utopia, sustainability, and artistic freedom. Corkery's recent exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Millar
Penelope Judith Millar (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist, who lives in Auckland, New Zealand and Berlin, Germany. Education Millar received a BFA in 1980 and an MFA from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983. As recipient of a Scholarship from the Italian Government in 1990, she spent a year in Turin, Italy, where she studied Italian arts of the 1960s and 1970s. Paintings Millar is known for her abstract acrylic and oil paintings. While her works may recall Abstract Expressionist paintings, Millar does not consider her paintings as being 'gestural'. In an interview with Ocula in 2016, she said that,The word that always sets my teeth on edge is ‘gesture.’ Gesture seems like something that comes gushing out from deep inside you. That is not really what I am interested in. My work is much more about drawing; it is about looking and seeing, less about ‘expressing’. I'm using gesture only in the sense that a gesture can communicate something. Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
