Auckland Art Fair – what's for sale

Auckland Art Fair
The Cloud
August 8-11

The Auckland Art Fair opens next week with 40 galleries, 100 artists and over 1000 works of art on show and on sale. The works range in price from several hundred thousand dollars to just a few hundred. There is something for the serious collector as well as those just starting out.

Here are a selection of works from some of the of the galleries:

BATH ST GALLERY

Peter Panyoczki, Leaf, mixed media - $17,000

Peter Gibson Smith, Chloris 2013, pencil and encaustic wax on paper construction - $4200

Peter Panyoczki’s new work for the Auckland Art Fair explores the options and potential of different materials and surfaces. He is represented in major public and private collections here and overseas. 

Peter Gibson Smith’s highly original three-dimensional works are sourced from archival photographs and meticulously drawn in pencil. These works combine traditional painting methods with the most modern technology. Peter’s work is held in major public institutions within New Zealand.

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Matt Ellwood, new works - approx $10,000-$12,000

Kirstin Carlin, new works - $2250

Emily Wolfe, new works - approx $12,000. 

The gallery is presenting several newly commissioned works by Liyen Chong, Emily Wolfe, Peter Peryer, Kirstin Carlin, Richard Orjis, Derek Henderson, Matt Ellwood and Kristy Gorman.

One of the gallery's new artists is Kirstin Carlin, who featured her work in a show at the beginning of the year and sold all eight on the opening night. She has since exhibited two-person shows this year (with UK-based sculptor Emma Fitts) at Window, University of Auckland, and The Physics Room. She will be showing four new works.

Matt Ellwood will be showing new sculptural works and will also be concurrently exhibiting new works on paper at the gallery.

London-based Emily Wolfe has also made new work. 

RH GALLERY

Scott Eady, Allum Chandelier, crystal and brushed brass - $46,000 

Scott Eady, Viva l'Italia (Fool's Gold), wood, plaster, aluminum and brass 

Scott Eady, Ivan (after Venice Gold), gold-plated bronze

Raewyn Atkinson, Deep Time #29, porcelain and glaze - $62,000

Raewyn Atkinson, Wasters, 2013, found ceramic

Rohana Weaver, At the Entry Point, Lullaby of Birdland (Red Junglefowl), fibreglass and flocking - $4800

Clare Fleming, Look Forward, Not Back (Interloper bust), salt, resin, fiberglass, steel, pvc (edition of 3)

Scott Eady, who is exhibiting at the 2013 Venice Biennale and will be showing new work in Project Space, 192 Queen St, and at the Art Fair Venice is referenced with Allum Chandelier and has been reproduced in a Venetian family workshop.

Eady also has series of disruptive and troublesome sculpture gold sculptures including Viva l'Italia and Ivan.

Recently returned from Berkeley, Raewyn Atkinson presents her monumental Deep Time #29, which tests the physical limitations of her medium and constantly challenge her own knowledge and ability.

With Wasters, ceramic fragments become a metaphor for the human condition. Reformed into a circle, suggestive of a mandala, the shards, fragments of loss, create new forms, seeking completeness.

TWO ROOMS

Fiona Pardington, Katarina Rimu Rapa / Seaweed, Entangled Hair
Pigments Inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, edition of 10 - $17,000 

The gallery will feature new works by Fiona Pardington from her doctorate thesis. It will also have earlier photographic work by Anne Noble and Mark Adams.

Also featured will be two artists new to the gallery, Gretchen Albrecht and Greg Semu.

Greg Semu's work is from the Noble Savage Series shown only at the Wellington City Gallery in the exhibition Oceania, Re-Imaging the Pacific.

WARWICK HENDERSON GALLERY

Fatu Feu’u, various works - $1250-$5000

Robyn Kahukiwa, Ngā Atua, watercolours - approx $1,000 each.

Alexander Bartleet, sculptures from $1250

Mark Wooller, bushscapes from $1950

The Warwick Henderson Gallery is exhibiting works by Fatu Feu’u and Robyn Kahukiwa. Fatu Feu’u is being featured later this year in a major exhibition titled Made in Oceania at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kulturen Der Welt in Cologne.

Robyn Kahukiwa is a senior Maori woman artist who has over 20 major works in Te Papa Museum and in the Auckland Art Gallery.

Both artists are exhibiting affordable, with Kahukiwa showing original watercolours depicting Maori legends which were used to illustrate her book Ngā Atua. These are priced at around $1000 each. Fatu Feu’u has some original artworks priced at under $5000 and original prints at $1250.

Also included are works by emerging artists such as Alexander Bartleet an award-winner and finalist in the last two Wallace awards. His quirky and innovative assemblages are priced from $1250. Mark Wooller is a semi-surrealist painter depicting highly original and very detailed bushscapes are priced from around $1950.

ARTIS

Ray Ching, End to the Squandering of Beauty. Entry of the Birds of Paradise into Western Thought - ₤145,000 + GST

Michael Smither, Old Cray Pot, Alkyd on Swedish hardboard framed - $48,500

Bridget Bidwill, Taylor's Gold, oil & mixed media on primed paper framed - $4200

The gallery is showing a major painting by Ray Ching that was specially commissioned by Sir David Attenborough for the cover of his new book.

It was exhibited in London at Sir David's book launch and after the art fair here we have been requested by a museum in Nevada to loan it for exhibition there. Sir David will also be using an image of it for his forthcoming lecture series in New York.

The painting is an allegory depicting the arrival of the Birds of Paradise into European culture. The first birds arrived in Seville in 1522, the second lot came to Prague, the third to London, then Paris and this is imagined in a fantastical landscape running along the base of the picture.

The birds are life size and the painting shows a noisy gathering of most familiar, European birds, swirling around, all screeching and calling at the arrival of the first Birds of Paradise, which are carried in a hammock by two young herons.

The work Old Cray Pot is a key work in Michael Smither’s career and was inspired by a dive off Great Barrier Island many years ago where he observed the steel cubic structure of an old crayfish pot which was covered in brightly coloured sea anemones.

Painting this work gave the artist the vision which resulted in the creation of his colourful sculptural cubes and is significant for its cross over with his Colour Harmonics paintings.

Taylor’s Gold is a clear testament to Bidwill’s search for European Modernism within a New Zealand context. 

She uses her own personal alphabet of shapes, merged with hints of reality (in this case the Taylor’s Gold Pear) to create works of abstract eloquence.

MARTIN BROWNE CONTEMPORY

Neil Frazer, High Dive, (diptych), 2013, acrylic on canvas - $16,500

Neil Frazer, Small Reef, 2013, acrylic on canvas - $ 2500

Linde Ivimey, Three Graces, 2012, hand embroidery, steel armature,
acrylic resin, cotton, silk and natural chicken bones  - $57,000

Israel Birch, Phantasm, 2013, lacquer on stainless steel - $17,000

High Dive is one of the new works from Neil Frazer, featuring the islands in the Hauraki Gulf and the Coromandel. Frazer has a distinct landscape style and is a successful and well-established artist.

Linde Ivimey, who has been a star of the Auckland Art Fair since 2005, recently had a major survey show and a new monograph has been written about her work.

Israel Birch, one of New Zealand’s most exciting emerging artists who has attracted a large audience in Australia, is showing new work.

Neil Frazer is also showing small new works featuring the islands in the Hauraki Gulf and the Coromandel such as Small Reef.

McNAMARA GALLERY

Laurence Aberhart, Interior, Bishops Palace, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, Wales, platinum print - $18,000

Mark Adams, Te Ana o Hineraki Moa - Bone Point Cave, Redcliffs, gold toned fibre-based silver bromide prints from black and white negatives - $8050

Andrew Beck, Transfer II, gelatin silver print - $850

Justine Varga, Moving out #5, [edition includes one artist copy], Type C print - $A1320

Laurence Aberhart’s photograph is rare [one of five] and irreplaceable as the materials employed in its production are no longer available. The print is one of the most stable of methodologies.

Mark Adams’ analogue hand-printed diptych, by one of our most culturally attuned artists, is from his landmark suites Land of Memories: a contemporary view of places of historical significance in the South Island.

Andrew Beck is a young artist with a distinctive commitment to his work. His approach conceptually embraces light and space, utilising sculpture, photography and installation. He is already showing at significant galleries in Paris and Berlin.

Justine Varga is a young Australian artist employing photographic film in a fresh and questioning manner. On judging Varga's work, Anne Noble commented: "Drawing with light, surfaces and a simple line she binds the surfaces of an empty room to the space of interior memory."

BOWEN GALLERY

Geoff Dixon, Near Miss/Boat Trip, oil and acrylic - $18,000

Shona Rapira Davies, Job 41, oil on board - $14,000

Euan MacLeod, small paintings - $3600

Euan MacLeod, Hearsay artist book  -$10,000

The gallery will be showing Geoff Dixon's environmental bird paintings, including Near Miss/Boat Trip, inspired by a journey to Tiritiri Matanga just before Christmas last year. 

Shona Rapira Davies's Job 41 is a large whale painting based around some ambivalent bibical references.

Euan Macleod, who is doing well both in Australia and New Zealand, will have some new small works and will also be launching his artist book Hearsay, which is  a collaboration with Lloyd Jones and Ron McBurnie at $10,000.

MASTERWORKS GALLERY

Lisa Walker, Pendant 2013, wood, lacquer, thread - $1950

Lisa Walker, Laptop Pendant 2012 - $5675

Lisa Walker, Necklace 2012, sheepskin - $1950

New Zealand jeweller Lisa Walker has pioneered a completely new approach to contemporary practice that constantly questions the notions of acceptability and value, and preconceived notions of wearability. She recently returned from Munich, where she studied at the Akademie der Bildende Kunst, after 15 years in the German city.

She is one of only two Kiwis – the other is Warwick Freeman – to win the international art prize for contemporary jewellery, the Francoise van Den Bosch Award. Her work is held in numerous international collections and she is currently exhibiting with long-time collaborators, Chicks on Speed, at Brisbane Institute of Modern Art, Australia. This follows on from a collaborative exhibition at the City Gallery, Wellington, in March this year.

Her Auckland Art Fair installation will be the largest solo show since returning to New Zealand and is an important body of works fusing her art practice with a new sense of place. Works such as Pendant 2013, that utilises a blade of a cricket bat, and Necklace 2012, using a sheep pelt – materials that show the influence of her particular locale and her wry sense of humour.

MILFORD GALLERIES

Paul Dibble, Woodpigeon Construction, cast bronze, Corten steel [edition of 2]
- $26,000

Reuben Paterson, There's a Limit to Your Love (2013), glitter & synthetic polymer on canvas - $15,000

Ian Scott, Small Lattice No. 244 (1991), acrylic on canvas - $11,000

Shigeyuki Kihara, Tama Samoa; Samoan Man (2005), c-print - $4350

Lorene Taurerewa, The Centripetal Influence of Love (2008), watercolour on paper - $1950

Christine Webster, Le Dossier 6 (vi) (2006), c-type photograph - $4500

One of the country’s pre-eminent sculptors, Dibble’s works can be seen in public and private spaces throughout the country and his 2006 New Zealand Memorial occupies a prime corner in London’s Hyde Park.

Reuben Paterson’s new tondo glitter paintings showcase the increasing maturity of his pattern-making. With representation on both sides of the Tasman, his work is moving from strength to strength.

Ian Scott’s contribution to the development of an abstract language in New Zealand painting cannot be under-estimated. With works in all major public galleries in the country, his sustained exploration of abstraction places him foremost among this country’s modernist painters, while the breadth and depth of his art practice cement his place in any discussion of New Zealand art.

Currently undertaking the ISCP residency in New York that formed part of her prize package for the Paramount Wallace Art Award, Shigeyuki Kihara addresses issues of cultural, social and historical colonisation, the gendered gaze and cultural appropriation with her photographic and performance practice.

Lorene Taurerewa is a regular exhibitor in her home base of New York and also across the Tasman, and Tafelspiele, her debut solo show with Milford Galleries in Dunedin, took place in June and a selection of her large charcoal works will be on display at the Pah Homestead, Auckland, from September 24 to November 17.

With photographic works in public collections in Europe, the US and Australasia, Webster’s position as one of New Zealand’s senior photographers is further backed up by critical acclaim that spans three decades.

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Dale Frank, Hirsute Suffocation, 2013, varnish on linen - $34,000

Judy Millar, Untitled, 2013, oil on canvas - $14,000

Judy Millar, Flip (pink), 2013, screenprint, edition of 10 - $1250

Karl Maughan, Waiata, 2011, screenprint, edition of 50 - $3000

Gow Langsfrod will have a stand dedicated to editions as well as a stand for original works. The editions stand will include work by Damien Hirst, Dick Frizzell, Karl Maughan, Hye Rim Lee, Judy Millar and Sara Hughes.

Their second stand will include new, original work by Dale Frank, Judy Millar, Dick Frizzell and Michael Hight.

Hopkinson Mossman Gallery

Peter Robinson, Defunct Mnemonics sticks - $3000 - $5000 each, sets from $10,000

Dane Mitchell, Ceramic orbs - $3000 - $5000 each

Ruth Buchanan, Normal Desires, photograph, -$6500. (edition of 3)

Bill Culbert, Suitcase works – from $25,000

Peter Robinson’s felt sticks, collectively titled Defunct Mnemonics are similar to the vast collection he produced for the Auckland Triennial

Dane Mitchell ceramic orbs were part of his exhibition at Gwangju Biennial).

The large scale Ruth Buchanan exhibited last year at Liste 17, Basel and the Krome Gallery, Berlin,

In the Project space, the gallery is showing a selection of Bill Culbert suitcase works from 2009. These are both floor and wall works and relate to his current exhibition at the Venice Biennale.