V o l.2 N o.1 2010
2010
It’s our birthday!
It seems a long time ago that I hatched the plan to launch Gallery36. But it was only a year ago that the �rst edition reached you.
Cover image: Jordan Barnes The Dive After an Argument 2008 Oil on canvas 1900 mm x 1200 mm SOLD
Editorial included in this publication re�ects the opinions of the contributing authors and does not necessarily represent the views of Gallery36. Copyright for submissions belong to the contributors unless otherwise speci�ed. Gallery36 | Auckland, New Zealand www.gallery36.co.nz editor@gallery36.co.nz Editor: Selene Simcox Ph: 021 169 9084 E: editor@gallery36.co.nz
Gallery36 is becoming more and more exciting with organisations that support artists being part of the magazine. We also now feature emerging kiwi artists and photographers who are working abroad. It is exciting to see such a great variety of work to grace our pages. There is some really exciting talent out there just waiting to be picked up. Already February is full of events and exciting news. Be sure to check out Tiger Translate and get creative for their competition. Art�nd’s Natasha has some great advice for artists becoming more visible via the internet. And do remember how wonderful the internet can be as your marketing and networking tool! Also, First Thursdays is coming up again - 4th March - don’t forget to check it out! I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone to date who has been involved with Gallery36, without you we wouldn’t be where we are. So thank you and I hope you continue to support Gallery36 and emerging artists and photographers. Here’s to a positive, eventful and successful year to us all :)
Gallery36 is dedicated to providing a place to showcase emerging artists and photographers from around New Zealand. Here at Gallery36 we want you to be pro�led. Say what your work is about, what your passion is, and/or what in�uence you want to leave behind. This is your opportunity to be showcased and put yourself out there! Gallery36 is dedicated to providing like-minded people around New Zealand with pro�les of emerging artists and photographers they will love to read about, packaged up in an easily accessible format that supports our planet by saving trees. Each issue of Gallery36 will provide you with pro�les of artists and photographers who are passionate about art and photography and the role it plays in our society and culture. We want you to participate by nominating yourself to be pro�led, and by being vocal and letting us know what you like and what sucks. If you are an artist or photographer who wants to be pro�led, please submit (Approx 300 words and up to 4 photos of your work (as jpeg) with the tittle, medium, size and year of creation (plus a photo of yourself, if you wish to), and email all this to editor@gallery36.co.nz. Please remember to label your photos with the name, year of creation, medium and size. Please also make sure you and your friends join the emailing list, so you don’t miss out on each publication. Just email me at editor@gallery36.co.nz So enjoy reading, submit your work, join our magazine and tell your friends! Thanks Selene Simcox Editor Gallery36 | Vol 2. No. 1 2010
Jordan Barnes
Artist
M: 027 460 7294 E: jordanbarnesart@hotmail.com W: www.jordanbarnesart.com
Last year I made the decision to Auckland from my hometown of New Plymouth. I made this move, determined to gain success and recognition through my art, music and modeling. It has been an erratic ride, adjusting to, and �nding my own path in the Auckland scene which has taken me out of my comfort zone, forcing me to explore different ideas and techniques within my work. My recent work is photography transformed through drawing then into painting; the outcome re�ects my love for popular culture and my interest in photorealism.
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Jordan Barnes The Dive After an Argument 2008 Oil on canvas 1900 mm x 1200 mm SOLD
A lot of my work is focused on random moments in time, capturing the beauty in the ordinary. An artist that has a huge in�uence on my work is Gerhard Richter who believed that paintings should focus on
Jordan Barnes Untitled 3D No. 1 2010 Oil on canvas 1200 mm x 700 mm
the image rather than the reference, the visual rather than the statement – vide, The Rumor, The Aftermath and The Revenge. These three works were inspired by nights spent out witnessing bitchy girls complaining about who slept with who, or who’s wearing what. Based on photographs I stole from my mate’s facebook page, I created an imaginary rift between the friends, which was completely �ctional but which, amusingly, became reality through the work. Continuing to explore pop culture, my latest painting features two separate images layered on top of each other using coloring techniques. It can be viewed using 3d glasses (in my case a pair of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus 3d glasses). Through the red lens you will see one image on its own, and through the blue lens the other. Having only painted one of these works, there is a lot more experimenting to be done, but �nally I feel like I’m getting somewhere…
Jordan Barnes Andy Warhol in a Space Suit 2008 Oil on canvas 1500 mm x 600 mm SOLD
Jordan Barnes The Aftermath 2009 Oil on canvas 700 mm x 500 mm SOLD
Jordan Barnes The Revenge 2009 Oil on canvas 700 mm x 400 mm SOLD
Jordan Barnes The Rumour 2009 Oil on canvas 700 mm x 500 mm SOLD
Michelle Christoffersen
Artist
Colour is my over riding obsession and the common element within my artwork. “Colourscapes” is a word that has emerged in my vocabulary as a way of describing my current body of work. This refers to life and existence, beauty and preciousness. The treatment of colour evokes an atmosphere which is engaging for the viewer. Scenes are created within the �elds of colour that reference landscapes, or perhaps martian galaxies, other worldly environments. My practice is centred around a contemporary exploration of paint. Occasionally it digresses into drawing or deviates into sculpture or photography, then eventually �nds itself back to painting. Present experimentation is orientated around diverse and unconventional processes that
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BVA Fine Arts
M: 021 979 425 E: screamdesign@ihug.co.nz W: screamdesign.co.nz can be applied across a variety of media. Recent explorations have found plastic and its cousins forcing their way to the fore. Mini polystyrene balls masquerade as rainbow installations that �ow and bustle across a wall or cluster together as sculptures. Paintings are created, contained and framed within common plastic bags. Photographing left-over scrapings of acrylic paint reveal delightful detail that otherwise goes unseen. My creative approach bounces around the boundaries of art and design. This is a lush domain for new ideas,
Michelle Christoffersen Untitled 1250mm x 1670mm Lambda digital print on Kodak Endura photographic paper, matt �nish
with curious hybrid creations waiting to be discovered. This can be a weird and windy road, a serendipitous route. The act
of making spawns new ideas that feed back into the process to create more work and more possibilities. Being lead by the creative �ow and random tangents that appear brings a sense of joy. This method absorbs the fun and playfulness inherent in my practice, which remains as a cheerful residue in the unexpected result. Michelle Christoffersen Untitled 2.4m wide x 2.4m high polystyrene balls, acrylic paint, glitter, pins, wire
Michelle Christoffersen Untitled polystyrene balls, acrylic paint, glitter, pva glue
Michelle Christoffersen Untitled (detail) 2.4m wide x 2.4m high polystyrene balls, acrylic paint, glitter, pins, wire
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Chavah Kinloch
Artist
M: 027 4909 532 E: chavahkinloch@xtra.co.nz W: http://chavahkinloch.com B: http://blog.chavahkinloch.com
The images that flood my mind Born in Western Samoa, raised in Auckland and now living in Southland, life for me has always been diverse and colourful, just the way I like it. Inspired by my heritage, emotions, motherhood and life, my work re�ects the images that �ood my mind on any given day. Combined colours and random objects plague me until I unleash them creatively. I love the process though it can leave me exhausted and sleepless for days. It is a free�owing celebration of dreams and life. My �rst experience with exhibiting publicly came when I was seven years old. A painting I created was chosen and displayed at a local shopping centre. During
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Chavah Kinloch Love Story 2008 Mixed Media on canvas 61cm x 91cm
my school years, many of my paintings, drawings and sculptures were kept as displays in libraries and offices. I’m a regular exhibitor throughout New Zealand selling both nationally and internationally.
In 2008, I was selected as one of eight New Zealand artists to be part of an art auction in London. I was also approached by a US organisation for use of one of my paintings as their logo. Unfortunately they didn’t feel like paying me for my work so altered
Chavah Kinloch Discover Your Strength 2008 Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 80cm
Chavah Kinloch Pure Love 2007Acrylic on canvas 25cm x 25cm
2010 promises to be an exciting year for me with three of my paintings having been chosen by Bajidoo.com to be made into amazing bangles. They will be sold online as well at at the largest US tradeshow, hosting over 10,000 visitors. I’ve also been asked to be one of eight featured contemporary artists in February for First Thursdays.
Chavah Kinloch I see No Colour - We Are All One People 2008 Mixed Media on canvas 1m x 1m
it slightly and stole my ideas - I think I’m still slightly bitter.
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Derek Cook
Photographer
M: 021 555 609 E: derek@derekcook.co.nz W: www.derekcook.co.nz
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I could easily go into the spiritual, theoretical and what draws me in, how I draw in others and what individual moments mean to me. But I will save that for my exhibition later on this year.
than some of the other emerging artists here. I feel I qualify as I had been in the advertising, commercial wilderness for too many years and am just breaking free.
Basically - I am lucky! I found that photography quenched two of my tendencies. My technical twitch and my love for all that is creative. Creative artists are a privileged lot. We dream and can help it to birth. Though sometimes it needs a ‘C’ section. I knew that this was it for me at 19. A little older (now)
At Sydney University I was a technical officer in the photography unit and they sent me to Sydney Ultimo college to do my Ass. Diploma in Fine Art Photography. ‘Fine Art’ not really. It was a great course and I do not regret it though it was squarely aimed at documentary, commercial and scienti�c areas.
After this a couple of studios in Sydney I moved to Brisbane where I started to work on releasing my self of the Ad world chains.
K Road Artwalk
After being a rep selling digital solutions for Kayell I started up a Digital Imaging Bureau called ColorSpace. I stopped shooting commercial altogether and instead hired photographers when these jobs came up. Here I offered high end scanning, photo-manipulation, compositing and large format printing. The idea was to learn new skills that
would help my artistic genes to shine through and makes lots of $’s so I could then shoot what I wanted. I was so busy servicing agencies, design houses and photographers that I found little time for making inroads into �nding my creative genius. A fail on that front but I learnt a lot and I don’t regret it. Here in NZ up until last year I was the photographer and designer for Insignia International working with licenses including the All Blacks, Manchester United and Sir Edmund Hillary amongst others. This opened many more creative doors and thoroughly loved it there. I am now back out on my own doing what I need to stay alive while still trying to �nd myself as an artist. I plan to exhibit this year and have some interest in my Paris work. I have done a few installations and love that process. What do I love? I love it all - but the stories faces tell are great books to read and nature in the early hours makes me feel alive.
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Tiger Translate returns to Auckland – bigger than ever before Tiger Translate – the NZdeveloped, internationallyacclaimed art and music mash-up – is heading back to Auckland in 2010, featuring international talent: Japan’s DJKENTARO and Melbourne’s Muscles (Live). Launched in New Zealand in 2005, the Tiger Translate concept fuses East and West, art and music. It has since gone global with similar events in New York,
Copenhagen, Beijing, Bangkok and Berlin. This year’s event takes place in a pop-up location featuring a maze of gallery spaces and stages spread over three �oors – the Masonic Lodge & The Winchester on March 20. Tiger Translate Auckland 2010 features the music of DJKENTARO (Japan), Muscles (Live) (Melbourne), The Naked & Famous, An Emerald City, The Drab Doo Riffs, A.D.A.M, Stinky Jim, The Turnaround Vs. The Hit It & Quit It Review, Homebrew, The North Shore Pony Club and Boomio Sound. Top VJs Dub Module, The
Analog Club, TommeeTelleeVision are also set to wash the venue in holographic and multi-media displays. DJ KENTARO will be bringing his own VJ. One-off artworks and installations by Perth’s ‘Graffiti Research Lab’ and local artists including Cut Collective, Fuman and Sub Mariner will be displayed in and around the historic building. Tiger is also inviting applications from creative types who would like to develop their own display for the night.
K Road Artwalk
Anna Isaac, brand manager for Tiger Beer, says: “This is set to be the biggest and best Tiger Translate yet. We have a great musical line-up, across a range of genres, and the bigger scale and new location mean we can open our doors to 1,500 people - and create an event that harnesses top creative talent across artistic �elds. “Tiger Translate is always a
highlight on the Auckland art and music calendar. “It’s really cool that we have been able to include an art competition element in Translate ’10 as well. We know there is a wealth of talent out there. We want to see what awesome ideas people can come up with.”
Show us your Arts: Tiger Translate 2010 art competition
Tiger is also putting its money where its mouth is: the best entry in the art competition will win a cash prize of $2,000. Tiger Translate was initially developed in New Zealand with the objective of using visual art to interpret the merge of traditions, cultures and tastes from the Asian East with the European West. Tiger Beer International liked the idea so much it has exported the concept to other markets around the world. Tiger Translate ‘10 is the �fth event of its kind held in Auckland. The �rst was at the Transmission Room in 2005 and the second at Britomart’s Pavilion in 2006, the third at a basement in Nuffield Street in 2007 and the fourth at Fu Bar and Zen in 2008.
Pitch us your artistic vision for one of those spaces and we’ll give the winning entry $500.00 for materials, and $2000.00 as a thank you! We’ll also be showcasing artworks from loads of other people too, as well as music from DJKENTARO (Japan), Muscles (Live) (Melbourne), The Naked & Famous, The Turnaround vs. The Hit It & Quit It, and more.
The theme of this year’s Translate is ‘balance’, as balance forms a central part of Eastern philosophy.
The theme for this year’s event is „Balance’ - striking a balance between the various elements that occupy our lives has always been at the heart of Asian value systems.
Tickets for the event will be in hot demand. There are three ways to get your hands on tickets:
We would like the artwork concepts to capture the theme “Balance” in the context of East meets West.
• Listen to George FM or 95bFM to be in to win • Try your luck on the night at the door ($30) • Be one of the �rst 500 people to register for tickets at www.tigerbeer.co.nz For more information and further details about the art competition, visit: www.tigerbeer.co.nz
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Tiger Translate 2010 is moving to a new home – with stages and gallery spaces spread over three �oors.
If you are interested in entering the art competition, please contact entries@peadpr.co.nz to receive details of the brief and how to submit your artwork concept for the competition. Entries close Sunday 28 February 2010. For more info, please visit www.tigerbeer.co.nz Tiger Translate 2010 takes place March 20, at the Masonic Lodge & The Winchester, St Benedicts St, Newton. Gallery36 | Vol 2. No. 1 2010
Artist
E: sharonmargaret.russell@gmail.com W: www.sharon-margaret.blogspot.com
Melbourne, Australia Sharon MargaretProbably the most important thing you should know about me as an artist is that I love to knit. Like many knitters, my Grandma taught me when I was young. The �rst project we tried slippers - it was a simple pattern but as I had my heart set on green wool with colourful bobbles Grandma, who thought it would be too hard for me,
knitted mine and I made some for my sister in plain pink. I now have my Grandma’s name (and my middle name) tattooed, in her handwriting, on the inside of my upper right arm, in the place where I hold one of my needles to knit. I majored in photography at university but soon started to
Sharon Margaret Nipple Tassels Knitted in arcylic
bring my other passion, this lifelong obsession with knitting, making and craft, into my practice. And while I still admire and utilise photography’s ability to document, I have, more and more, become a knitter. With knitting as my medium, the power I have to shock my audience is intensi�ed. My practice centers on the unexpected. When you use such a traditional, practical process to create - in essence, super�uous, ornamental objects - this can be quite disconcerting. The audience Sharon Margaret Bowl of Fruit 2009 Knitted in arcylic knitted installations
Emerging artists and photographers working abroad
Sharon Margaret
wants knitting to be useful, to �t into its normal realm of functionality, especially when the colours are. My favourite project to date is “Guerilla Knitting” – a commission for the K’ Rd Business Association in 2009. I completed a series of pieces to be hung/stitched onto the trees around the area. Among these I knitted 100 coloured lightbulbs and strung them through a tree and also knitted a knickers and bra set and sewed them onto separate trees so that they were wearing them. All, of course, in the quiet of the early morning as we didn’t have council permits. This is something I love about knitting - its ability to be both craft and art. I can do market stalls with my knitted brooches and food items, and then I can also stage huge scale installations where, arguably, what I do becomes art, all with two basic stitches.
Sharon Margaret Tampon brooches Knitted in arcylic
Sharon Margaret Guerilla Knitting - 100 light bulbs 2009 Knitted in arcylic knitted installations
The best decision I ever made was to move to Melbourne. Craft is so supported over here and there are endless opportunities for me to showcase my work. I love the immediacy of market stalls as I’m able to gauge the audience’s reaction at such close quarters. The level of professionalism here is astounding and has forced me to take what I do more seriously, this is what I want to be doing and I want to do it well. Sharon Margaret Birds Nest with Eggs Knitted in arcylic
- compete for art awards nationally and internationally to recognise your talent
The Internet has opened up a wealth of new opportunities for artists, galleries, art lovers; in fact all communities worldwide can bene�t. You can now use the Internet in a variety of ways to immerse yourself in the local, national and international art scene: - buy art - sell art - discover art events to attend - immerse yourself in art history and contemporary arts developments - develop your creative skills online or �nd a course to suit - network with like-minded creative individuals - follow interesting arts blogs, news, reviews, tweets etc. - initiate art collaborations - source funding/sponsorship & business advice - progress your arts career with further training, a new job, voluntary work - �nd an arts group to join
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The list of possibilities is endless and ever growing… As an artist, gallery or art lover, you need to be a part of this virtual world, or you will be missing out! Visual artists and galleries are you getting the attention you deserve? Visual artists and galleries wishing to raise their public pro�le and develop a wider audience for their work need to strongly consider the Internet as a channel of communication. It makes sense really. To visit all the exhibition openings in one city is a daunting task, not to mention shows taking place in other locations. There is also the work of artists who don’t exhibit on a regular basis. Our planet is populated with millions of people who wish they could do it themselves; create artworks that excite, provoke and entrance. They can’t, so they
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seek to acquire pieces that they can identify with in a personal way. Through the Internet we’ve suddenly broken free of the geographical constraints that have kept the adorers and the adored apart for so long. Matching art lovers to art has become a whole lot easier. Of course nothing will replace the experience of seeing an original piece of art in a sympathetic context; however it is the Internet that has emerged as the platform where a new level of art exploration can take place.
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artists and galleries needs also continue to develop. Art�nd.co.nz is run out of a specialised visual arts content management system called Virtual Curator developed by Gravitate Limited has been in used to manage the Art�nd.co.nz site since launch in 2001. Recent software developments for artists and galleries also include applications to enable virtual 3D tours of online exhibitions in gallery spaces – see www.gallerycentric.com.
distributed yourself. It is perfect for people who already know you, and with a bit of work you’ll be able to reach new people who may not have heard of you before, but you’ll never get to the really big numbers. The Internet automatically gives you many millions of potential visitors, but that doesn’t mean they’ll �nd their way to your site. A shop down a small street in suburbia may be within reach of an entire city, but there is no guarantee that anyone will turn up.
The personal website
A rule of thumb is to think of a personal site as a way to communicate directly with people who already know you, or who have had the good fortune to �nd you amongst all the other sites. Make your own website personal and keep it up to date whenever you have new work, news or exhibitions to promote – it is important to keep your content fresh! If you manage your own website well, your visitors will come back again and again.
Having your own website is a great start, but it doesn’t end there. A personal website is like a brochure you’ve printed and
Virtual Curator Account - Artwork Catalogue Screen
Reaching a larger audience Online art portals, regional, community or magazine style sites are where you have a real opportunity to capture the attention of new buyers. Although you may be in amongst many other artists and art sellers, a large number of people will see your work. It just takes one glance Gallery36 | Vol 2. No. 1 2010
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And it’s not about having “a website”. It’s about developing a web presence that may come in many forms. Just like the printed media where there are postcards, brochures, catalogues, magazines and newspapers, the web offers a huge variety of options for promotion and networking including: personal websites; Social Media sites such as Facebook artist pages or Twitter; regional arts sites; email marketing; arts forums; arts blogs and news sites and community art groups / arts guild sites. There are also online art portals and wider community or magazine style sites such as www.art�nd.co.nz and www.thebigidea.co.nz.
The Internet trend is only going to continue so if you haven’t stepped into the waters yet it might be time to start dipping your toes. The web is getting easier to use and as the younger generations grow there are more and more people who know how to help you. What Art�nd.co.nz offers Art�nd is the home of New Zealand art online promoting NZ’s creative talent: around 20,000 artworks, over 470 artists’ pro�les and a number of the prominent dealer galleries around the country.
Artworks gallery page on a Gallery Personal Website: www.salamandergallery.co.nz”
With a multitude of art sites on the web, it can be difficult to �nd exactly what you are looking for. Art�nd makes �nding art simple. Our site offers a centralised resource for New Zealand art, with dedicated pages for artists and galleries, plus artwork preview pages, arts events and more. Art lovers have a number of search options to help them �nd the perfect piece of art, to discover new artists and to connect with artists and galleries: search artworks by media, price, theme, style; �nd artists and galleries by region, media, name and classi�cation. Be informed and stay up to date with site and member news through our newsletters. Members’ newsletters also offer online arts advice and opportunities and our staff provide a personal dedicated support service. Art�nd.co.nz offers a variety of artist and gallery members’ packages providing a full online promotional package at an affordable cost with options that include both full representation on the Art�nd.co.nz site and a personal website. If you are a NZ artist or gallery and you would like to �nd out more please contact natasha@art�nd.co.nz with your name contact details so we can send you an information pack.
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for a potential relationship to start that may live on for many months or years.
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