STANLEY PALMER

STANLEY PALMER Paintings and Monoprints

24 August - 18 September 2013

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PAINTINGS

After the Storm 1923 - Piopiotahi (2013) oil on linen, stretcher: 770 x 1370 x 35 mm

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Colville (2013) oil on linen, stretcher: 701 x 1404 x 36 mm

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Moturoa - Cathedral Rock - Ahuahu (2013) oil on linen, stretcher: 894 x 1192 x 28 mm

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MONOPRINTS

Above Harataonga - Aotea (2012) monoprint on paper, frame: 763 x 1213 x 34 mm, printed image: 464 x 946 mm

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Watchman Point - Ahuahu (2013) monoprint on paper, frame: 766 x 1215 x 35 mm, printed image: 465 x 945 mm

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Motu Wharangi - Ahuahu (2013) monoprint on paper, frame: 764 x 1214 x 35 mm, printed image: 465 x 945 mm

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Somes - Matiu (2012) monoprint on paper, frame: 762 x 1215 x 35 mm, printed image: 465 x 945 mm

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Road - Ahuahu (2013) monoprint on paper, frame: 764 x 1214 x 35 mm, printed image: 465 x 945 mm

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Morning - Waiheke (2012) monoprint on paper, frame: 779 x 1074 x 34 mm, printed image: 482 x 805 mm

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Towards D’Urville (2013) monoprint on paper, frame: 763 x 1214 x 35 mm, printed image: 465 x 945 mm

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From Opourua - Rawhiti (2013) monoprint on paper, frame: 766 x 1215 x 35 mm, printed image: 465 x 945 mm

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Behind Motukorea (2012) monoprint on paper, frame: 762 x 1214 x 34 mm, printed image: 464 x 946 mm

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With a successful exhibition history that extends back to the late 1950s, Stanley Palmer’s place in the history of New Zealand art is assured. Palmer’s paintings parallel his long-standing print-making practice; both media capturing the essence and memories of the land.

After the Storm – Piopiotahi (2013) exhibits all the nuances of visual language viewers have come to expect from Palmer. The ramshackle buildings with their corrugated roofs are as much part of the artist’s vernacular as are the views across the mountains and sea. He uses built structures - roads, trig points, sheds, fences – to provide a point upon which the eyes can settle.

Their human scale prevents the open, empty vistas of land from overwhelming the viewer and serve as reminders of time’s passing.

Rather than the wild untouched places of the country, Palmer depicts farmlands, where vestiges of native bush fringe the edges of bluffs and lonely cabbage trees cluster around a shearing shed. These remnants of forest combine with the empty outbuildings and rundown fencelines to suffuse Palmer’s works with a wistful nostalgia for a half-remembered summer or family holiday. This sweet melancholy is further enhanced by a soft, jewel-like palette and the delicacy of the artist’s brushwork.

The suite of monoprints reveals the print-making skills Palmer has honed over decades. A single print is taken from a stainless steel plate upon which the image is painted in reverse; there is very little room for error and, conversely, a fair amount of chance involved in the final product. The clear colours and abstraction of form give these works a fresh immediacy and the hand of the artist can be seen in the subtle textures of the inks.

Stanley Palmer paints a New Zealand landscape redolent with memory and his works draw on each viewer’s own recollections. These remembered cycles of time and tide are the artist’s subtle inducements to recognise ourselves in the bays, hills and headlands he portrays.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST 1

After the Storm 1923 - Piopiotahi (2013)

17,500

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Colville (2013)

16,000

3

Moturoa - Cathedral Rock - Ahuahu (2013) 17,500

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Above Harataonga - Aotea (2012)

3,600

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Watchman Point - Ahuahu (2013)

3,600

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Motu Wharangi - Ahuahu (2013)

3,600

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Somes - Matiu (2012)

3,600

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Road - Ahuahu (2013)

3,600

9

Morning - Waiheke (2012)

3,450

10

Towards D'Urville (2013)

3,600

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From Opourua - Rawhiti (2013)

3,600

12

Behind Motukorea (2012)

3,600

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

STANLEY PALMER b. 1936, lives Auckland

After the Storm 1923 - Piopiotahi (2013)

Stanley Palmer's rugged and beautiful landscapes are expressive, emotive and distinctively New Zealand. Using painting and printing techniques, he has developed a unique and personal style that captures the essence and colours of our natural coastlines, rural scenes and native flora.

"Stanley's Palmer's art over the past four decades has delved into ambiguous territories of memory.

Increasingly, it configures as a deeply wrought, highly personal chart of Aotearoa New Zealand, mining the depths of his own recollections as well as tapping into historical memory and, beyond that, the geological past." (1) “Often focusing on the coastline – the border across which the colonisers and the colonised first tentatively merged – Palmer’s work is imbued with a sense of loss, yearning and disappointment.” (2) Stanley Palmer’s works show a deep connection to the New Zealand landscape and speak of environmental issues.

Stanley Palmer has established himself as one of New Zealand’s most significant printmakers. A “method of printmaking that Stanley Palmer employs is one that he invented. It is a combination of engraving and lithography, using bamboo rather than metal as an etching plate. Engraving on a wooden surface is much easier, it can be done with tools rather than with acid, and requires less pressure to print. Less pressure allows more control of any ink applied directly to the plate and maintains the subtle texture of bamboo grain as an integral part of the design.”(3) Stanley Palmer lives in Auckland and has worked as a fulltime artist since 1968. He began exhibiting in 1958 and has an art practice that covers both painting and printmaking processes including bamboo prints, woodcuts and monoprints. His works are part of public and private collections including Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, City Art Gallery, Auckland and The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington.

1. Gregory O'Brien, 'Stanley Palmer and The East Coast', East, Craig Potton Publishing, 2009 2. Gregory O'Brien, Lands & Deeds, Godwit Publishing 1996 3. Pleasure in Print, Art News, Spring 1999 Stanley Palmer 2013 CV P a g e |1

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STANLEY PALMER b. 1936, lives Auckland SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011 2010 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996

1995 1994

1993 1992

1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984

1983

Paintings and Monoprints, milford galleries queenstown Other Islands, Solander Gallery, Wellington Rags and Shreds, Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland New Works, Solander Gallery, Wellington New Prints and Paintings, Milford Galleries Dunedin Portraits of Places Revisited, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland To the Harbour, Lopdell House, Auckland After the Storm - Pacific, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland French Pass, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Islands, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Return - Karamea Punakaiki, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Great Barrier - Aotea, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Chart of the Far North, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington & Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Chart of the Far North, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington& Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland East 2000, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington & Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Summer's Pass Over the Fractured Ocean, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Monoprints, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Paintings and Monoprints, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington From Westland, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Westland, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Return Northland, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Paintings 'Return Northland.' Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Westland, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland Entries for a New Zealand Index, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Entries for a New Zealand Index, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Piopiotahi, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Piopiotahi, Milford Gallery, Dunedin Memories of Whangarei Heads, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland Poor Knights, Milford Gallery, Dunedin Quotations from Westland, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Monoprints, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Monoprints and Prints, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Fragments and Reflections – Northland, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Monoprints and Prints, Ginkgo Gallery, Christchurch Monoprints, Southern Cross Gallery Memories of Northland, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Return and Departure, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Paintings and Monoprints, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington Paintings and Monoprints 'East Coast.' Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Prints and Drawings, Ginkgo Gallery, Christchurch Paintings and Prints, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Monoprints and Prints 'At the Bay.' Portfolio Gallery, Auckland Monoprints and Prints, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington Monoprints and Prints, Ginkgo Gallery, Christchurch Monoprints and Prints, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington Summer, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Banners, Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum, Napier Banners and Drawings, Centre Gallery, Hamilton Prints and Monoprints, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland

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1982 1981 1980 1979 1980 1976 1975 1973 1972 1971

1970 1969 1968 1966

Prints and Monoprints, Ginkgo Gallery, Christchurch Banners and Drawings, Space Gallery, Auckland Monoprints and Prints, New Vision Gallery Prints and Monoprints, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch Prints, Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington Prints and Monoprints, New Vision Gallery Prints and Drawings, Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland Prints and Drawings, Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington Prints and Paintings, Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington Prints, Paintings and Drawings, New Vision Gallery Islands and other sets of prints released New Vision Festival Exhibition Prints and Drawings, New Vision Gallery Prints and Watercolours, New Vision Gallery Rocks and Sea, New Vision Gallery Prints and Drawings, New Vision - Festival Exhibition Prints and Paintings, Bett-Duncan Gallery, Wellington Prints and Drawings, Dawson Gallery, Dunedin Fragments of a Vanishing Landscape, New Vision Gallery Woodcuts and Bamboo Engravings, New Vision Gallery Paintings, New Vision Gallery Paintings, New Vision Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006

2003 1999 1990 1986 1981 1978 1976 1973 1971

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1968 1967 1966

Editions, Milford Galleries Dunedin Works on Paper, milford galleries queenstown Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin Works on Paper, milford galleries queenstown Southern Landscape, milford galleries queenstown Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin Looking South, Milford Galleries Dunedin Location South, milford galleries queenstown Works on Paper, milford galleries queenstown Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown Is As – Landscape as Metaphor, Milford Galleries Dunedin Parihaka Exhibition, City Gallery, Wellington New Acquisitions 'Memories of Northland' - Monoprints, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Prints, New York Expo Eighth Norwegian International Print Biennale Parihaka Centennial Exhibition 'A Flag for Te Whiti', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Western Pacific Biennale – Australia 'New Zealand Prints', 'Clouds and Sky', Auckland City Art Gallery 6 x 4 Exhibition, New Zealand and Australian Prints (toured in Australia) Tokyo International Biennale of Prints - Invited artist World Print Exhibition, San Francisco 6 x 4 Exhibition, New Zealand and Australian Prints 36th Biennale Venice Ninth International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Ljubljana Second Triennale Art, India Second Biennale Engraving, Buenos Aires, Argentina International Association of Art Cities Woodcuts, Madrid / Paris Tokyo International Biennale of Prints Woodcuts and Bamboo Engravings, New Zealand Print Council Woodcuts, New Zealand Graphics Exhibition

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COLLECTIONS The University of Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch Private collections in both New Zealand and overseas

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 2009 2007 2000 1999 1996 1995 1992

Wolfe, Richard and Stephen Robinson, Artists At Work, Penguin Books, London, England Obrien, Gregory, East, Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson Palmer, Stanley, To The Harbour, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland West: Stanley Palmer, Godwit - Random House 2000 Fusco, Dr C. Postcards & Emanations West, Craft Arts International 1999 Lands & Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters, Godwit Publishing Ltd, 1996 100 New Zealand Paintings, Godwit Publishing Ltd 1995 Ensing, Riemke. Stanley Palmer: Poor Knights, Academy Interprint Ltd 1992

Colville (2013)

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