Exihibitions @ Kaan Zamaan
Drawings
by Rachel Miller 22 August - 5
September 2010 now extended until September 10th!
About the Arts with Mike Nettmann, Chronicle 2nd September.
“Rachel Miller’s drawings not only “take a line for a walk” they invite the viewer to partake in her engagingly intelligent delirium. Rachel’s delightful works are quirky, fragile, and whimsical and exude a joy irreverence.
The skill and beauty of Rachel’s drawing is exceptional. Using graphite, delicate tones, sensitive line work – not unlike Schiele – with delicious blacks and greys and a variety of clever textures.
For anyone who is studying or interested in drawing this exhibition is a must see.
Also on show is a series of small, beautiful porcelain pieces by Robin Anaru Anderson at very reasonable prices – and two compelling works by Northland artist Chris Wilkie.”
Also read “Drawing on memory” an article by Kate Shuttleworth in Focus magazine ( Advocate newspaper supplement )next week, an interview with Rachel Miller.
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Rachel Miller continues with a wry, humourous and often irreverent look at life in her new show; 'In The Pink'. This follows other themes of human endeavour explored in her last exhibition; 'Five Leaves Left' at the Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu last February.
In a series of works developed using a limited palette of watercolours and graphite tones, her skills as an artist are much in evidence.
'In The Pink' opens on August 22 and will be of interest to those earlier collectors of Millers work as well as newcomers to her imaginative eye.
Rachel Miller,
Artist – Curriculum Vitae
Living in South Hokianga Northland. Work includes drawing, painting, and sculpture.
August 2010 Solo exhibition ‘In the Pink’ at Kaan Zamaan Gallery
March 2010 Group show “Travellers Trinkets and Tourist Icons’ Whakatane Museum
February 2010 Solo exhibition ‘Five Leaves Left’ at Village Arts Gallery
December 2009 Dual Exhibition ‘Paper and Fire’ at Kaan Zamaan Gallery
July 2009 Group show ‘Travellers Trinkets and Tourist Icons’ Taupo Museum
April 2009 Solo exhibition ‘Strip’ at Village Arts Gallery
Nov 2008 Dual Exhibition ‘Graphite’ at Kaan Zamaan Gallery
Nov 2008 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’ at the new Hokianga Art Gallery
June 2008 Matariki Group Show at Waitangi
June 2008 Matariki Group Show at Kaan Zamaan Gallery
March 2008 Group Show at Mamaku Gallery
Sept 2007 ‘Hokianga’ Exhibition at Auckland Central Library. Work titled ‘Together in Spirit’ purchased for permanent collection.
Nov 2006 Group show at Village Arts Gallery Kohukohu
Oct 2005 First Place Hokianga Wearable Arts Awards (masks category)
Aug 2005 Finalist in Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award – work exhibited in Christchurch Art Gallery (Te Puna O Waiwhetu) from Aug to Oct 05
April 2005 ‘Eight Artists from the Hokianga’ Group Show at the Depot Gallery Devonport Auckland
March 2005 ‘Eight Contemporary Artists’ Group show at the PpG Gallery Great North Rd Auckland
Feb 2003 ‘Hokianga Heart’ Group exhibition at the Boatshed Gallery
2002 Solo Show at The Boatshed Gallery
2002 Invited to become Community Representative for Creative Communities Northland.
2001 ‘Weaver and Maker’ Dual Show with Kate Harbutt at The Boatshed Gallery
1999 Solo Show at The Boatshed Gallery
1994, 1993 Highly Commended Entries in Telecom Awards
1990 Highly Commended Spray Design Entry with Kate Harbutt in Mohair Fashion Awards.
1984 Group Show with Roxburgh Five’ studio in Wellington
1976-77 Post Graduate Certificate in Art Education
1973-76 B.A. Fine Arts painting and printmaking
Rachel Miller with her drawing 'Joy joy happy happy'
@ Kaan Zamaan
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 'Puppy Love'
'Tomorrows Party'
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Chris T Wilkie
Following
the success of Chris T Wilkie's exhibition "From Deep" in the summer of
2008, the artist returned with a large selection of his oil paintings, to
the intimate space of Hangar Gallery in Kamo July 9th through August 20th
2010.
In 2009 Wilkie's paintings focused on his new home in the South, and some
of the environmental issues there. In dream like settings of Lake Orbell,
te wai o Pani, the refuge of the rare Takahe bird, the artist described a
nearly - lost world. But in these works, Wilkie begins with dark imagery
begun in the Bay of Islands in 2004, stimulated by a battle between Maori
and French. In stark contrast to this, the artist finishes with new
Fiordland pieces full of hope and light, and a tenderness expressed
towards our whole country. They truly travel from dark to light.
Sometimes these new pictures are specifically of Fjordland and her
endangered species, which are often referred to in drifting teathers
against primordial landscapes. But Wilkie has also been touched by the
loss of delicate human lives too, and mentions Maori relatives who have
passed since his southern sojourn, alongside tiny tragic Lily Bing and the
Kahui twins, all of whom the artist parallels with fledging birds. But in
the end the artist evokes them all to " fly away with Aisling", giving
ressurrection to frail souls, whose fates have deeply touched so many.
So in many of Wilkie's later works, there is a sense of hope. The huge
"Sanctuary" features a Kokako, a bird extinct in the South Island, but now
being returned to protected islands, and there is a survival of a
spiritual force and wairua in many landscapes, such as the writhing
females form in "Dusky".
The contemplative atmosphere perculiar to the work of significant artists,
drew me back to both the Hangar Gallery and the Paihia library where I
recently saw his strong powerful work. I asked Barry and Megan Squires if
Chris might like to show some of his remaining work in Kerikeri, and was
delighted when Chris said I could hang them in Kaan Zamaan. I feel privileged
to have seen the whole collection before they were dispersed to their new
homes. I hope you will feel what I do when admiring these works of art.
http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/christwilkie
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Detail of painting by Chris T Wilkie
From the series entitled "Peopling the Land",
"Of this Land Descended"
Oils, polyurethanes, fire, canvas, wood inserts, on wooden frame
SOLD
Detail of "Big Tree"
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