JOHN PARKER

RED NON-WHITE CERAMICS

JOHN PARKER 22nd October - 16th November 2011

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DETAIL VIEW - 1. Red Bottle [11-59] (2011)

1. Red Bottle [11-59] (2011)

2. Red Cylinder [11-38] (2011)

size (v x ø): 235 x 123 mm

size (v x ø): 271 x 89 mm

3. Red Bowl [11-63] (2010)

4. Red Deep Bowl [11-55] (2011)

size (v x ø): 97 x 182 mm

size (v x ø): 171 x 119 mm

5. Red Orb [11-47] (2011) size (v x ø): 170 x 120 mm

6. Red Bottle [11-40] (2011)

size (v x ø): 251 x 89 mm

DETAIL VIEW - 12. Red Cylinder [11-44] (2011)

7. Red Cylinder [11-45] (2011)

8. Red Bottle [11-41] (2011)

size (v x ø): 190 x 64 mm

size (v x ø): 266 x 76 mm

9. Red Bottle [11-61] (2011)

10. Red Vase [11-64] (2011)

size (v x ø): 250 x 115 mm

size (v x ø): 162 x 103 mm

11. Red Deep Bowl [11-57] (2011)

12. Red Cylinder [11-44] (2011)

size (v x ø): 230 x 140 mm

size (v x ø): 290 x 90 mm

DETAIL VIEW - 14. Red Bottle [11-49] (2011)

13. Red Deep Bowl [11-37] (2011)

14. Red Bottle [11-49] (2011)

size (v x ø): 195 x 148 mm

size (v x ø): 258 x 78 mm

15. Red Orb [11-50] (2011)

16. Red Cylinder [11-54] (2011)

size (v x ø): 248 x 180 mm

size (v x ø): 223 x 75 mm

17. Red Bottle [11-62] (2011)

18. Red Vase [11-65] (2011)

size (v x ø): 275 x 80 mm

size (v x ø): 156 x 104 mm

DETAIL VIEW - 21. Red Bottle [11-51] (2011)

19. Red Orb [11-60] (2011)

20. Red Bottle [11-46] (2011)

size (v x ø): 260 x 167 mm

size (v x ø): 272 x 73 mm

21. Red Bottle [11-51] (2011)

22. Red Low Bowl [11-48] (2011)

size (v x ø): 241 x 83 mm

size (v x ø): 86 x 260 mm

23. Red Bottle [11-42] (2011)

24. Red Cylinder [11-52] (2011)

size (v x ø): 245 x 116 mm

size (v x ø): 272 x 90 mm

DETAIL VIEW - 29. Red Vase [11-67] (2011)

25. Red Tall Bottle [11-66] (2011)

26. Red Orb [11-56] (2011)

size (v x ø): 350 x 67 mm

size (v x ø): 214 x 143 mm

27. Red Bowl [11-43] (2011)

28. Red Bottle [11-53] (2011)

size (v x ø): 101 x 185 mm

size (v x ø): 210 x 108 mm

29. Red Vase [11-67] (2011)

30. Red Cylinder [11-58] (2011)

size (v x ø): 165 x 125 mm

size (v x ø): 314 x 110 mm

31. Red Bottle [11-36] (2011)

Leading ceramic artist and 2010 Laureate Award Winner John Parker reveals a stunning bold use of colour in his latest exhibition aptly titled RED. Confident and entirely at ease with his material and vision, Parker continues to reduce expression to the essentials of form but rather than apply the severe singular palette of white with which we are accustomed he presents Bottles, Bowls, Cylinders, Orbs and Vases in flamboyant rich hues of red. This intense blaze of red brings Parker’s visual language into new territory and when compared to the stark austerity of his white forms, these audaciously coloured forms function in an entirely different way.

At first glance the red glaze appears as a solid hue yet there are subtle tonal gradations that lend a sense of oscillating movement, of simmering energy.

This in turn makes shadow behave in a different way as variances in hue reflect, reverberate and energise.

These idiosyncratic artworks dictate their own particular spatial relationships and groupings. Unlike the subtle soft line of Parker’s white forms, there is a fresh boldness and sharp intensity here - edges are more defined and so there is a heightened awareness of architectural aspects, the spaces between, dimensional volume and the internal structure. When clustered together, the positive and negative spaces between forms shift and seemingly flux as colour resonates and lines intersect.

Combining new daring colour with his characteristic sculptured forms, and while staying true to his enduring dialogue, Parker once again reveals his formidable skill as a master designer and ceramic artist.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

1

Red Bottle [11-59] (2011)

325

2

Red Cylinder [11-38] (2011)

375

3

Red Bowl [11-63] (2010)

275

4

Red Deep Bowl [11-55] (2011)

275

5

Red Orb [11-47] (2011)

250

6

Red Bottle [11-40] (2011)

375

7

Red Cylinder [11-45] (2011)

225

8

Red Bottle [11-41] (2011)

395

9

Red Bottle [11-61] (2011)

350

10

Red Vase [11-64] (2011)

295

11

Red Deep Bowl [11-57] (2011)

475

12

Red Cylinder [11-44] (2011)

395

13

Red Deep Bowl [11-37] (2011)

425

14

Red Bottle [11-49] (2011)

350

15

Red Orb [11-50] (2011)

450

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

16

Red Cylinder [11-54] (2011)

250

17

Red Bottle [11-62] (2011)

375

18

Red Vase [11-65] (2011)

295

19

Red Orb [11-60] (2011)

495

20

Red Bottle [11-46] (2011)

375

21

Red Bottle [11-51] (2011)

350

22

Red Low Bowl [11-48] (2011)

425

23

Red Bottle [11-42] (2011)

350

24

Red Cylinder [11-52] (2011)

375

25

Red Tall Bottle [11-66] (2011)

450

26

Red Orb [11-56] (2011)

350

27

Red Bowl [11-43] (2011)

275

28

Red Bottle [11-53] (2011)

295

29

Red Vase [11-67] (2011)

325

30

Red Cylinder [11-58] (2011)

475

31

Red Bottle [11-36] (2011)

370

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

JOHN PARKER b. 1947, lives Auckland

Still Life for Keith and Ernie 6 [10-39] (2008-10)

“I subscribe to the well rounded aesthetic ideal, I guess. All the things I do relate, they are all visual. They all concern the drama of reactions to shape and colour and arrangement.” John Parker works as a potter, set and costume designer and film critic. He draws no distinction between his interests. “The same themes flow through your work and the same processes of stylisation, fine-tuning and attention to detail apply.” (1) “When working in clay, I see myself following in the traditions of being just a craft potter. Each piece is hand-made and unique. I throw and turn all my work on the potter’s wheel. I make ware which is easily recognisable as the classical pottery vessel, bottle or bowl, but my special concern is to push the concepts of these as far as possible into severe minimalism and into the functional/non-functional debate to explore the very essence of defining these ideas. My forms and aesthetic, of the stark and the industrial owe more to the philosophy of the European design movements of de Stijl and the Bauhaus than to Leach and Hamada.” (2) “His pots are beautifully formed, strongly based on simple geometry, they are elegantly glazed and crisply detailed.” (3) “For some years now Parker has been limiting his focus and simplifying his forms. In his search for refinement and perfection he now works purely in white porcelain.” (4) "Shufflebotham had worked with the New Zealand designer Keith Murray at Wedgwood during the 1930s. There he had been a master thrower and key interpreter of Murray’s innovative, restrained and glacial domestic wares. When, in the 1940s, Shufflebotham found himself at Crown Lynn in Auckland, he produced a series of hand potted, turned and white-glazed works that were essentially a theme and variation on those he had thrown at Wedgwood. In the works of these two men, Parker discovered like-minded ceramic artists who thought across traditional boundaries and in doing so instituted the exchange of a distinctive modernist iconography particular to Britain and New Zealand.

Parker began to add to that tradition, bringing to it his own set of references and experiences."(5) Born in Auckland, New Zealand 1947. After some years studying in New Zealand and London, Parker graduated with a Master of Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London in 1975. He returned to Auckland in 1977 and continues to live and work there.

Parker has been exhibiting ceramics since 1967. He now frequently has three solo exhibitions in New Zealand annually and also participates in local and international groups show in the UK, Italy, USA and Australia. Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s leading ceramic artists, Parker has received numerous commissions and awards for his work including the prestigious Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2010. His work is held in major New Zealand public collections including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as well as many private collections in New Zealand and internationally.

1. Artists Statement, 1994.

2. Artists Statement, 2000.

3. Helen Schamroth, ‘100 New Zealand Craft Artists’, , Godwit, Auckland, 1998.

4. Barry Allom, ‘Urbane, stylish, all white’, The Press, 18 November 1998.

5. Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins, 'The Journey Towards White', John Parker Ceramics, David Bteman, 2002 John Parker 2011 CV P a g e |1

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JOHN PARKER b. 1947, lives Auckland EDUCATION 1975 1970

MA, Royal College of Art, London, England DipTech (Distinction) Auckland College of Education

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011

2010 2009 2007

2006

2005 2004

2003

2002 2001 2000

1999 1998

1997

1996 1995 1994

1993 1992 1991 1990 1986 1985

RED Shades of Red Testing Black + White + Red The Same But Different The Same But Different New Ceramic Forms New China Diversions Baubles Off White Superstrata Superstrata Superstrata Resurfacing Resurfacing New Artefacts Abstraction and Still Life New Artefacts New Artefacts White Ware John Parker Ceramics White Ware, White Ware Wall to Wall White Ware White Ware Twentieth Century Ceramics Twentieth Century Ceramics 99 White Bottles Functional Ware Functional Ware White Ware White Ware White Ware Recent Ceramics New Work New Work Points and Penatrations New Work New Work Triptychs New Work Window Dressing New Work Masterworks Ceramics for the Modern Home Happy Birthday to Me Decorative Art

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Master Works Gallery, Auckland AVID Gallery, Wellington FORM Gallery, Christchurch.

Master Works Gallery, Auckland.

AVID Gallery, Wellington.

Compendium Gallery, Auckland AVID Gallery, Wellington Master Works, Auckland Compendium Gallery, Auckland Real Time, Auckland 12 Potters Gallery, Auckland

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1984 1983 1982 1981

Firth Solo Show: Textures

Fourth solo show, 1980 Domestic Wares 1979 Third solo show 1977 1973 1972

Second solo show First solo show Christmas Show

12 Potters Gallery, Auckland New Vision Gallery, Auckland Pots of Ponsonby Auckland Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney, Australia New Vision Gallery, Auckland.

Dowse Art Museum, Wellington.

The Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia Albany Village Pottery, Auckland Alicat Gallery, Auckland Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney, Australia New Vision Gallery, Auckland.

Media, Wellington.

New Vision Gallery, Auckland.

New Vision Gallery, Auckland Faenza, ITALY. MEDIA, Wellington.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 2009 2008 2006 2004 2002 1996 1995 1994 1984 1983 1982 1980 1979 1978

1977

1976

1975

1969+ 1967+

Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction City Gallery, Wellington Collis and Parker The David Lloyd Gallery, Hamilton In Good Company Skepski Gallery, Melbourne Down Under China Arthouse, Christchurch Reconstructing China Masterworks, Auckland Beyond the Pale North Art, Auckland Parker and Parker; Installation with Richard Parker, Object Space, Auckland Space, Fire and Form Gallery East, Fremantle, Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, AUSTRALIA The Bowled and the Beautiful Freemantle, Australia Works in Progress (collaboration with Terry Stringer), Compendium Gallery, Auckland Clay and Architecture (Collaboration with Simon Carnachan), Fisher Gallery, Auckland Ceramics for the Year of the Pig, Master Works Gallery, Auckland.

Collaborations (Joint show with Rick Rudd), Master Works Gallery, Auckland.

Porcelain: 4 potters 12 Potters Gallery, Auckland Clay and Glass AZ ART, Arizona, USA Basic Black: Twenty Bowls Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland weaver John Hadwen C S A Gallerywith, Christchurch 5x5, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland North Island Potters Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Crafts New Zealand, overseas travelling exhibition.

Porcelain 3, Alicat, Auckland.

4 x 10 : Four Approaches Peter Webb Gallery, Auckland Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK Porcelain Show MEDIA, Wellington.

Porcelain 2, Alicat, Auckland.

Heals (with Ian Godfrey) London, UK Upper Street Gallery, LONDON. Third Eye Gallery, GLASGOW. Tom Caldwell Gallery, BELFAST. 24 British Potters (travelling show) USA Degree Show Royal College of Art, London, UK Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK Christmas Show Goswell Road Workshop, London, UK Faenza, Italy National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales New Zealand Society of Potters Annual Exhibitions. with Grant Hudson.

Upstairs Gallery, Hamilton Auckland Studio Potters Annual Exhibitions

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AWARDS & COMMISSIONS 2010 2009 2007 1999

1998 1995 1989 1985 1980 1979 1985 1980 1979

Arts Foundation Laureate Award Winner of Portage Awards, John Green Waitakere Artist Award Winner of Portage Awards, John Green Waitakere Artist Award Awarded Waitakere City Millennium Medal for services to the Community Commissioned Installation for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for Embassy Chancery, Jakarta Commission for Noel Lane - Architect, Auckland Commissioned APEC Leaders Gift presented to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Commissioned Installation for Chapman Tripp Foyer, Wellington Birkehead Licensing Trust Award Royal Easter Show Western Potters Award Merit Award, Royal Easter Show Pottery Awards.

Merit Award, Hume Gas Award.

Awarded Major Creative Development Grant by Q E 2 to research glaze technology and U V light Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award.

Merit Award, Fletcher Brownbuilt Pottery Award

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Chapman Tripp Sun Alliance Montana Wines Auckland Institute and Museum Dowse Art Museum Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa Manawatu Art Gallery.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia N Z Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Northern Arizona University, USA Pennsylvania State University, USA Waikato Art Museum.

Whangarei Art Gallery N Z Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia

SELECTED ARTICLES 2002 2002 1998 1996 1995 1995 1990 1988 1981 1978 1973 1973

John Parker Ceramics, Wellington: David Bateman (essay attached) Severe White Things, Art News, Summer 2002, pp 50 – 51 (attached) Schamroth, Helen, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists, Auckland: Godwit (attached) Lloyd-Jenkins, Douglas, From Paris to Vortex: Keith Murray and New Zealand Ceramics, Keith Murray in Context, Robin Craw (ed.), Napier: Hawkes Bay Museum Parker, John, The Organic Nature of Sophistication: Lucie Rie Remembered, New Zealand Potter, vol.37, no.3, December 1995, pp 16-18 Mansfield, Janet, Contemporary Ceramic Art in Australia and New Zealand, Sydney: Craftsman House Waitakere Arts and Cultural Centre. Stages: John Parker Survey Exhibition, Auckland Parker, John and Celia Parkinson 24 New Zealand Potters, Auckland: David Bateman Parker, John, Domestic Wares, New Zealand Potter, vol.23, no.2, Spring 1981, pp 24-25 Parker, John, Eat Your Heart Out Betty Crocker, New Zealand Potter, vol.20, no.2, Spring 1978, pp 20 Harris, Margaret, John Parker, New Zealand Potter, vol.15, no.1, Autumn 1973, pp 44-46 Harris, Margaret, John Parker at New Vision, New Zealand Potter, vol.15, no.1. Autumn 1973, pp 47

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