On Thursday 5th November, 2015 an exclusive International Art Auction was held at the Auckland City Art Gallery. More than 40 internationally recognised and respected artists donated significant original artworks for auction. All proceeds from the sale of artwork go towards the Medicine Mondiale LifePod Project. For more information, please click here .
This collection represents the largest collection of New Zealand contemporary art offered in one auction representing the huge diversity and talent of New Zealand artists on the world stage. The collection represents a compendium of artistic mediums from painting, sculpture, photography, glass, ceramic, and jewellery.
Showing with James Robinson
PG Gallery 192, Bealey Avenue, Christchurch 4-21 August 2015.
Pulse at PG Gallery 192 until 21 August, responds to ideas about populations. Populations of cells or of people. Each one having it's own distinct vibrational energy, but each relying on and being part of the whole. In a block, the wall becomes a resonating field of transmitters and receivers.
Part of the exhibition is a soundscape, which adds another dimension to the experience of the work.
Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru 8-24 May. A group exhibition.
I had wanted to explore one form and when I was invited to be part of this exhibition it presented the perfect opportunity.
These works "Expressions of Form" explore movement, expansion and contraction, propulsion and breath. Through slight adjustments to one form, one step leading to the next, I enjoyed the sense of movement which developed over the series and the emotional subtleties each held. The form rolling in on itself, protective, holding onto its fullness and then stretching out, releasing. I imagine anemones and some microscopic sea creatures having similar movement.
The regular patterning of dots follows and accentuates the form and the red interior, when it holds light, is energetic - a biological colour - connecting these vessels to us.
This is the third consecutive Annual Exhibition Fran Maguire has curated for the Marlborough Community Potters. It showcases the talent of Marlborough potters and the diversity of the material.
On until 16 November 2014 at Gillan Gallery, Grove Road, Blenheim.
At The Vivian, Matakana 21 February – 22 March 2015. A group exhibition.
Fran Maguire and Joanna Fieldes have shared four joint exhibitions since 2010. This is the first time they have collaborated on the same pieces.
Because both artists have worked closely together on exhibitions over the past five years they have developed a sensitivity for each other's work. The vases Maguire has created are an ideal medium and form to express through Fieldes' painting the similar ideas each hold of the imported versus the indigenous; containers of history linking past to present and pointing to the challenges and consequences existing today because of opportunities presented in the past.
